‘Naked Gun’ Co-Creator Spoofs Noir Movies With ‘Star of Malta’ – The Hollywood Reporter
Veteran comedy filmmaker David Zucker has spoofed catastrophe films with comedy basic Airplane! and horror films with the Scary Film franchise. Now he has set his sights on a brand new goal: basic movie noir and caper films.
Zucker and his frequent collaborators Pat Proft and Michael McManus have reunited for The Star of Malta, a interval comedy that RainMaker Movies will produce and finance.
Zucker will direct and co-wrote the script with Proft, the creator of the Police Academy films who labored with Zucker on a number of Bare Gun and Scary Film pics, and McManus, who labored on Scorching Pictures Half Deux and Mafia!.
Set in late 1940’s America, Malta follows prizefighter Joe Medina, newly launched from jail for killing his opponent within the ring, as he pursues his love, Harriet Evans, to Hollywood. Hitchhiking west, he by chance positive factors possession of a extremely sought-after however cursed gemstone, often called The Star of Malta, and proceeds on an unintended homicide spree, leaving a path of individuals he by no means meant to kill.
Producing for RainMaker Movies is Corey DeSalvo. Clay Pecorin and Russell Geyser will govt produce.
RainMaker, which helped make the Oscar-winning drama Dallas Purchaser Membership, produced the sci-fi thriller Stowaway that starred Anna Kendrick and Daniel Dae Kim and hit Netflix earlier this 12 months. It additionally produced the horror thriller Separation, which starred Rupert Good friend.
Zucker is taken into account one of many pioneers of the spoof movie comedy style as a result of his output as each director and co-writer within the Nineteen Eighties with films resembling Airplane!, High Secret!, The Bare Gun and its sequels. He partnered with Proft as co-writer for the Gun films and once more once they took over the Scary Film franchise within the 2000s. Their movies have a mixed gross of over a billion {dollars} on the world field workplace.
Malta would be the first outing for Zucker in addition to Proft since writing 2013’s Scary Film V.
Zucker is repped by APA, Randi Siegel Leisure and Cohen Gardner LLP. Proft is repped by Sloan Supply.
