Mike Myers of ‘Austin Powers’ Teases A Potential Fourth Movie

Yeah, child – Mike Myers is giving us extra hope for a possible fourth Austin Powers film!

The SNL alum and comedy legend, 61, attended New York Journal’s Vulture Competition over the weekend, the place he was requested about the opportunity of bringing the sex-positive Worldwide Man of Thriller again to screens sooner or later.

Whereas he didn’t say a lot, what he did say might be taken as one other trace of him ultimately reviving the favored character.

When requested by TooFab if audiences may anticipate one other Austin Powers film within the not-too-distant future, Myers performed issues near the chest, however nonetheless stated greater than sufficient.

“It’s, uh, I’d be shocked if it didn’t,” he stated with a slight smile.

Myer’s feedback is probably not essentially the most assuring, however it’s nonetheless essentially the most safe affirmation we’ve gotten of a possible fourth entry within the Austin Powers franchise in a while. To our credit score, it isn’t the primary time the actor has given us crumbs to observe in hopes of seeing Austin on our screens once more.

Because the franchise’s final entry, 2002’s Austin Powers in Goldmember (a.okay.a. the one with Beyoncé), Myers has given a number of constructive responses about seeing the spy and his nemesis, Dr. Evil, again in motion once more for a fourth go-round.

In 2005, Myers instructed Leisure Weekly, as reported by Daily Mail, that he was genuinely looking forward to a fourth film.

“There’s hope,” he admitted. “We’re all circling and speaking to one another. I miss doing the characters.”

Two years later in 2007, he instructed IGN that there have been “concepts” for what a fourth Austin Powers movie may seem like.

“There’s a totally conceived thought for a fourth [movie],” the actor shared, “and I can simply say that it is from Dr. Evil’s viewpoint. So, in the event you balanced how a lot of [the franchise] was Austin with Dr. Evil, it is extra about Dr. Evil than Austin.”

Myers reiterated the idea that very same 12 months on the premiere of Shrek the Third. He would then seemingly go silent on all issues Austin Powers till 2016, when, as reported by Complex, he claimed throughout a telephone interview that the main points had been “being negotiated.”

On the heels of the twentieth anniversary of the franchise in 2017, Mike relayed to The Independent that he would “love” to do a fourth film.

“You simply should [wait and] see,” he shared.

Aside from Myers’ recurrent feedback of bringing Austin Powers again to life, filmmaker Jay Roach, who directed all three films within the block – 1997’s Austin Powers: Worldwide Man of Thriller, 1999’s Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and the aforementioned Austin Powers in Goldmember in 2002 – has beforehand shared his hopes for reviving the franchise.

“We now have talked about [making a fourth movie] for 15 years,” he defined to The Hollywood Reporter throughout an oral historical past  in regards to the franchise.

“We now have additionally all the time stated we do not need to do it until we got here up with one thing that lived as much as the ideas in our thoughts,” Roach expressed. “Till Mike looks like he has an idea that earns a fourth, it will not occur. But when it did, we have now all agreed that we might be delighted to get again into it.”

Although it will definitely grew to turn out to be a half-billion-dollar franchise, the primary Austin Powers movie almost introduced the movie sequence to a swift shut.

In The Hollywood Reporter retrospective of Austin Powers, it’s famous that the primary movie fared extraordinarily poorly with check audiences. Even worse, its premiere on the Chinese language Theater was such a sleep fest, nobody even bothered to take co-star Seth Inexperienced’s (Scott Evil) image!

Worst of all was its general box-office return: Although it fared nicely with American audiences, bringing in round $53.9 million general, it solely made near $14 million within the abroad market.

Fortunately, as with many movies of the previous, the discharge of Austin Powers: Worldwide Man of Thriller on dwelling video and DVD (with the latter media gadget simply making its strategy to dwelling rooms around the globe in 1999) helped to construct an viewers and push its reputation to new heights.

Although he seems to understand what the Austin Powers franchise has meant to its followers, there may be one function exterior of it that Myers hopes fan would give extra consideration to.

Talking to TooFab on the Vulture Competition on Saturday, Mike introduced up his work within the 2002 Netflix sequence The Pentaverate, which he each co-created and starred in.

“I did a sequence on Netflix in the course of the pandemic,” he talked about, particularly noting the present’s English theme and his English heritage. “I [played] a personality referred to as Lord Lordington, who’s the pinnacle of the Pentaverate, this secret group. I feel it is my favourite character.”