Mike Myers to Explore Daddy Issues in Austin Powers 4

Posted by Jessica Rogers (jessica@filmschoolrejects.com) on July 31, 2008

Austin PowersRemember back to a time when you first saw Austin Powers and all the jokes were funny? Then you went to see the second movie, and it was still kind of funny? By the third you really wanted to see if Beyoncé could hold her own in a movie, and while it may have been entertaining, you couldn’t help but feel déjà vu?

Mike Meyers isn’t done yet.

According to reports over at Deadline Hollywood Daily, Mike Meyers has started writing a script for a fourth installment in the Austin Powers series at the request of New Line Cinemas. Though no details are finalized, the movie is said to be focusing on Dr. Evil and his relationship with his son Scott. (Remember, he turned evil at the end of the third movie).

What is most weird about this proposal is Meyers claims that this script is “loosely” based on his own relationship with his father.

Um, okay then…

Does this make Meyers an evil twisted individual with visions of grandeur, or is he saying that his father repeatedly tried to hold the world ransom for “One Billion Dollars!” (Sorry I had to).

With the success of the previous Austin movies and the Shrek trilogy, Meyers has some big box office draw. However, his latest movie The Love Guru tanked at the box office, leaving some to wonder if Mike Meyers has run out of funny power. There are only so many times the space ship joke can work, and one has to wonder if Austin Powers 4 will have anything original.

Would you see a fourth Austin Powers Film?


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  • People love piling on after a big name has a box-office bomb like "The Love Guru". I totally believe there would be high interest for a 4th Powers movie and Im confident that it will be good as Myers knows this world!.
  • Chris
    I stopped caring about this franchise the moment the first film ended, so this one holds no interest to me. It'll probably make money, but right after it comes out, folks will be complaining about how the jokes were all ones they heard before from the other 3.
  • When will Mike Myers just give it up and realize he's not relevant whatsoever anymore. His comedies could not be anymore dated than they are right now. Do something different, switch it up a little. I guess you can't teach an old comedian new jokes.

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  • If they made a Powers movie without Powers in it that would be a good first move. The character of Austin got so tired halfway through the 2nd film when people just wanted to watch Dr. Evil anyway.
  • Jeremy M
    People can hate all they want, i'll still see it.

    I haven't seen the love guru yet, but i heard it wasn't that bad. When you go into a movie
    like this don't expect Oscar material. Just go to have a good time.
  • eric
    realy?
  • white boy jew
    People would embrace an AP4. Honestly, i got my first handjob in the theater at AP2.
  • eric
    realy
  • Jeremy M
    Austin Powers made you horny baby
  • I'd rather see Meyers return to something more...personal...for lack of a better term. Not that exploring his own father issues isn't personal, but the slapstick approach that AP uses isn't.

    It would be awesome to see him play a real person for a change, like he did in So I Married an Axe Murderer. No crazy time travel, no ridiculous faux-Indian upbringing, just a normal funny guy dealing with an extraordinary situation.

    Which, whoa, brings me to a deeper concern. I just realized that Meyers essentially switched his comedic method midstream, going from normal characters in extraordinary circumstances to wacky characters in normal circumstances. Both seem to have worked for him, but Christ in a handbag does he get annoying after a while doing the latter.
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