Austin Powers will return!
 

July 31, 2008


Mike Myers is reportedly returning to his most iconic role in the wake of the commercial and critical failure of his last release, The Love Guru.

Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that Myers is currently scripting Austin Powers 4 with Mike McCullers, his co-writer on that last two Powers sequels.

The site claims the story "will focus on Austin's arch-villain Dr. Evil, who was based on Blofeld of the Bond films. But what hasn't been known is that the AP4 plot is really about Dr. Evil and his son (introduced already as Scott Evil, played by Seth Green)."

This jives with what Myers told IGN last year while doing press for Shrek the Third that "there is a fully conceived idea for a fourth and I can just say that it's from Dr. Evil's point of view. So if you balanced how much of it was Austin with Dr. Evil, it's more about Dr. Evil than Austin."

New Line Cinema, which is now a production entity at Warner Bros. rather than its own studio, is developing the project.

Yeh, I was looking it up a few weeks ago and found pretty much the same thing. Hope they don't overkill it.