Mike Myers has to do SOMETHING to get himself back on top. He was once a hot comodity and now he is that guy who did the same movie 4 times. People are tired of his schtick.
So how does he reinvent himself? Well for starters he has to not star in his own film. The guy has to take a break and let people see why we loved him to begin with. And where better than to start than in a Tarantino flick! That’s right, Mike Myers could be an Inglorious Bastard
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 can really do good stuff when he tries, but I think he has just found himself surrounded by crowds that just fold over every time he inhales that he stopped having to try. Now he is learning the hard way that we don’t really like to see sequels made up of the gags he didn’t think were good enough for the first one.
I loved Myers in 54. And I would love to see him take a departure from his character comedy to do other things so that we can learn to laugh with him again.
Love Guru was the final nail that told Myers that we are done with that gag.
It was funny the first 3 times, not so much anymore.
I don’t think we have seen the end of Myers by far, but hopefully we have seen the end of the Guru.
im telling ya rodney….it was the guru that turned his career around..hes up there now…
I didnt say Mike was doing it TO save his career. I said it was a good move since Myers current cycle of character movies has been hurting his rep.
If he ends up in Inglorious Bastards it won’t be because he chose to “reinvent” himself or anything, it will be because Tarantino wanted him and Myers’ schedule allowed it. Tarantino seems to be going for a really odd cast in this case – he had already asked Sandler. He’s basically picking various actors he wants in his movie – your post makes it seem like Myers is trying to get in to save his career. Myers has nothing to do with it – it’s all Tarantino’s game.
suddenly i’m not looking forward to this anymore…
Oh NO!
Haha, this is just getting ridiculous.
I can deal with one or two strange castings, but when you have Eli Roth, BJ Novak, and Mike Myers in a WWII film…I think Tarantino is getting ahead of himself.