Mike Myers News

Coming off The Lovd Guru - and its disappointing box office haul - Mike Myers has signed on to the cast of Quentin Tarantino's next movie.

Myers has signed on for Inglorious Bastards as British General Ed Fenech, a military mastermind who helps hatch a plot to kill Nazi leaders. He's the latest addition to an ever-growing, star-studded cast.

Brad Pitt stars in the movie as Lt. Aldo Raine, the leader of a group of Jewish-American soldiers dropped into German-occupied France on a singular mission to kill as many Nazis as they can. Eli Roth is also on board, and Tarantino is said to be courting Simon Pegg, Nastassja Kinski, David Krumholtz, and B.J. Novak for roles, as well.

Look for the movie to premiere in Cannes in 2009.

Say this about Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers, whose previous movies - Meet Dave and The Love Guru - completely tanked:

They're persisent.

Each recently talked to MTV News about their future projects, each sounding excited to put past failures behind them.

“This picture I’m doing now called A Thousand Words is like nothing I’ve ever done before. It’s not a kids movie, a family movie. It’s a really, funny smart picture. Different,” Murphy said. “I play this literary agent who finds out he only has 1000 words left to say and then he’s going to die.”

Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers teamed up to voice characters in Shrek. The career paths of these actors have been on a downward spiral ever since.

Yes, it’s high concept project from the actor .Forget about the debate over Beverly Hills Cop 4, and whether it will or will not contain profanity; the second half of this movie won’t contain words. At all.

“The whole second half of the picture, my character can’t talk," Murphy said.' This is a guy who’s used his mouth. He’s always fast talking, and all of a sudden he has to shut the f—k up,” Murphy said. “It turns into this like charade.”

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USA Today has an exclusive first look at the latest Mike Myers' inspired comedy, The Love Guru.

The film, which also stars Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake and Ben Kingsley, features Myers as Pitka, an American left as a child at the gates of an ashram in India. Pitka becomes a self-help guru who tries to smooth the marital rift of a hockey star and his wife.

Myers, a native of Ontario, says he wrote the film because of his interests in Eastern philosophy and hockey. But he isn't the type to zip out a script the moment an idea hits.

"I enjoy having the Lamaze birthing process of it," says Myers, who also authored the Wayne's World and Austin Powers franchises. "It usually takes me three, 3½ years in between characters."

Why so long? The actor very protective of his original live-action characters.

"I've written and created everything I've done, and it takes me a year to reflect on what I've done, a year to let the idea incubate and a year to create" a new character.

This time around, that included playing a philosopher of Eastern religion in New York and Los Angeles, where some unsuspecting passersby sought advice from Myers, who never broke from character.

"They asked some very spiritual and deep questions," he says. "It's been fascinating combining comedy with a nice life-affirming message."

So, will The Love Guru be a hit? Don't ask Myers. He didn't expect his two most famous alter-egos to be so loved.

"When I did Wayne's World, I thought you had to grow up in my neighborhood to get it," he says. "When I did Austin, I thought you had to grow up in my house to get it, because my parents are from Liverpool. But I've been very lucky to create things people have liked, so I have to stay true to the things that interest me."