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This article is more than 10 years oldThe Hangover star is to take on the role of the bumbling detective following the death of Leslie Nielsen in 2010"Cheer up," Frank Drebin advised someone in Naked Gun 33⅓. "This is not goodbye. It's just I won't ever see you again."
Following Leslie Nielsen's death in 2010, the odds lengthened on the possibility of a return to the big screen for the bumbling cop, but Variety reports that Hangover star Ed Helms has signed on to take over the role in a franchise reboot first mooted earlier this year.
Writers Thomas Lennon and R Ben Garant - who also wrote the upcoming Baywatch for Paramount - will inherit screenplay duties from the Zucker brothers.
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker created the character in 1982, for the spoof TV show Police Squad!. The three movies - The Naked Gun (1988), The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) - took $275m.
Helms, 39, rose to fame through his work on the US version of The Office and as a mild-mannered dentist on the Hangover films. He also won acclaim for a relatively serious turn in Jeff, Who Lives at Home, and plays banjo in a bluegrass band.
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