OJ Simpson played Detective Nordberg in the first three Naked Gun films ... — Naked Gun Movie (@NakedGunMovie) April 3, 2025. Others were more divided on whether the joke worked or not.

Speaking after a 50th-anniversary screening of Sugarland at the 2024 Tribeca Festival, Spielberg jokingly said he thought, “Shit, they’re stealing my thunder,” when he saw the Simpson chase.

The ex-NFL star and movie actor, ... O.J. Simpson died of cancer on April 11 at the age of 76, about six weeks before the debut of The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson on Lifetime on June 1.

Members of the news media watch live television coverage of O.J. Simpson's slow speed chase on Los Angeles freeways during Game 5 of the NBA finals June 17, 1994, at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Nicole Brown Simpson is shown in this Oct. 4, 1993, file photo at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. A new, four-part docuseries on Lifetime explores her life.