David Zucker tells The Hollywood Reporter that he wants the best for the new film and reached out to director Akiva Schaffer to show his support, even if the movie "really isn't what I would have done.

Akiva Schaffer on why the bonkers snowman scene was important, fighting it being cut from the movie, and how he was supposed to come back at the end.

"I don't see any of the sequels that were of my material done by other people, and that’s fine," David Zucker also said, and praised the reboot's director