I tend to agree. Nielsen created the whole Drebin character to fit his persona. Someone else trying to do it would be like someone else trying to play Jim Carey’s Ace Ventura character. Also, the guys who wrote Police Story were brilliant. I believe they also wrote the movie Airplane. It’s very difficult to recapture lightning in a bottle.
Yes, the were the Zucker brothers, David and Jerry, and Jim Abrajs. They wrote and made:
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Airplane (1980)
Airplane 2 (1982)
Police Squad TV series (1982)
Top Secret (1984)
Naked Gun (1988)
Naked Gun 2 (1991)
Naked Gun 3 (1994)