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Mike Myers Joins Inglorious Bastards

Liam — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:32:27 +0000

Unfortunately, Adam Sandler couldn’t appear in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards, however another comedic actor who goes by the name of Mike Myers can! From The Quentin Tarantino Archives:

Breaking news out of Tarantino land, ladies and gentlemen. Some of you sceptics out there will fume at this news, but I’m getting confirmation that Mike Myers will have a SMALL role in Inglorious Bastards. Myers is the star of Wayne’s World and Austin Powers, and also the recent flop Love Guru. No word yet on what role he might be taking over (maybe Adolf H. himself?), yet the movie seems to have an unlimited supply of cameos and smaller characters.

Myers joins Brad Pitt, Nastassja Kinski, Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz, B.J. Novak and Eli Roth.

In the film, a band of U.S. soldiers facing death by firing squad for their misdeeds are given a chance to redeem themselves by heading into the perilous no-man’s lands of Nazi-occupied France on a suicide mission for the Allies.

Mike Myers Writing Austin Powers 4

Liam — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:00:46 +0000

After The Love Guru doing not so well in the ‘good’ department it seems Mike Myers needs to get back on form in some way, and that doesn’t involve voicing an ogre. According to Nikki Finke Myers is teaming up with Mike McCullers again to write a fourth Austin Powers movie.

“It’s very personal with a father and son theme loosely based on his own life,” an insider tells me. As Myers has previously said, this fourth installment of the super spy spoof movie series will focus on Austin’s arch-villain Dr. Evil…”

Nikki Finke also points out that Myers had a character in the original Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery script called The Love Guru but decided not to shoot it and then wrote it out of the series.

There is no deal in place yet, but with the Austin Powers franchise earning more after each movie New Line/Warner Bros. will probably give it the green light.

…yeah, baby, yeah?

Hindu Organization Demand That Leaders See Mike Myers’ ‘The Love Guru’

Liam — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:57:02 +0000

The trailer for Mike Myers’ The Love Guru was released earlier this week and it did not make everyone laugh. A Hindu organization, Universal Society of Hinduism, has demanded that the film be shown to Hindu leaders and organizations prior to its public release. The reason:

Rajan Zed, prominent Indo-American leader and President of the Society, said that from the information available about the movie, it appears to be lampooning Hinduism and Hindus and using Hindu terms frivolously.

There have been issues with religion and movies before, most recently with The Golden Compass, and again with Mel Gibson’s Passion Of The Christ back in 2004. To my knowledge the only thing gained from it was more publicity for the film. I don’t know what the Hindu leaders can do, apart from possibly get a free early screening. The studios have spent millions making the movie and they will release it whether it upsets people or not.

The email I received pointed out that:

Hinduism is the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about one billion followers and a rich philosophical thought, and it should not be taken lightly

Do Paramount want to piss off one billion people? Will those one million people have gone to see The Love Guru anyway? Do you think the Universal Society of Hinduism is over-reacting or do they have a right to be annoyed that a movie is turning their religion into a romantic comedy staring Jessica Alba?