Mike Myers' Netflix series adds Keegan-Michael Key, Ken Jeong, and more to cast
Myers will play seven characters in the limited series
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A whole bunch of crap happened in the last two years, so you almost definitely forgot that Mike Myers was working on a new project for Netflix. Today, the streamer announced the title and casting for the upcoming series, which may sound a little familiar to longtime fans of Myers. Keegan-Michael Key, Ken Jeong, Absolutely Fabulous icon Jennifer Saunders, Debi Mazar, Richard McCabe (Harlots), and Lydia West (Years And Years) will co-star opposite Myers in The Pentaverate, a six-episode limited series centering on a fictional secret society of five men who’ve been controlling world events since the 14th century. Myers will play a total of seven characters in the series, which sounds like a fucking LOT until you remember Eddie Murphy played at least eight in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.
“The Pentaverate” was actually referenced way back in 1993's So I Married An Axe Murderer, the dark rom-com in which Myers plays a commitment-phobic poet who becomes increasingly suspicious that his new girlfriend (Nancy Travis) is a serial killer who murdered her previous husbands. Myers notably played both the lead role of Charlie and his father, Stuart, a bawdy Scottish man who reads tabloids and believes conspiracy theories—including one about “The Pentaverate,” an influential secret society that counts “The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up” among its members.
The Pentaverate will be Myers’ first TV role since the short-lived revival of The Gong Show, in which he played Tommy Maitland, host of The Gong Show. It’s also Myers’ first live-action starring role since 2008's The Love Guru. Since then, he’s had small supporting roles in Inglourious Basterds, Terminal (the Margot Robbie thriller from 2018), and Bohemian Rhapsody (a movie that is not worth watching, no not even for Mike Myers’ sake).
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Is that a wax figure of Mike Myers, or do I need to ask WHAT MIKE MYERS DID TO HIMSELF???
Key’s color is horrible too! Was hard to notice after Myer’s altered face
Mike Myers portraying an old man here looks better than actual old man Mike Myers.
Jesus I’d forgotten that ( acclaimed Oscar winner and pigeon lady from home alone 2 )Brenda Fricker played his mam in it.
Mike Myers is going to have a show on Netflix It will co-star Keegan-Michael Key and Jennifer Saunders Also, Myers will be playing seven different characters.
So I Married an Axe Murderer is an under-rated masterpiece. The Love Guru is an overrated disaster — meaning, as terrible as the reviews and criticism of that move have been, no words exist to describe how atrocious that film is. Discuss.
“no words exist to describe how atrocious that film is.”
How about “overrated disaster”?
A few weeks ago, I did a rewatch of the movie with a friend who hadn’t seen it.And while it still holds up, the weakest part of the movie is easily Myer’s character of Charlie. He’s weird and awkward and kind of creepy, as well as being a bit of a cypher.
Yep. When I think about the elements of that movie that I like, the list generally starts with Charles Grodin and Alan Arkin. Even Michael Richards’ brief appearance is more memorable to me than anything the main character does.
Hiddd!
I believe it’s pronounced Heeed. And his head is like Sputnik: spherical, but quite pointy in places.
“Ohhh ..he’s off to cry on his moon sized pillow!”
MEWV!!! NOW!!!
So I Married An Axe Murderer is my go-to example of a ‘cable movie’: it’s great to catch it on cable, because you can watch the funny bits and channel-surf during the other parts. Unfortunately, the ‘other parts’ make up an unfortunate percentage of the movie, and watching it from start to finish is a chore. I say this having seen it in the theater. I was, at the time, a big Mike Myers fan. My friends and I left the theater wondering why we paid money to watch it.
The Love Guru is actual my go to for worse movie ever. Clearly there are other movies even worse, but none with that much money and comedy talent behind. It had all the potential and delivered one low key chuckle. Also, what the hell did Mike Meyers do to his face.
Workaholics is the only show that gave Mike Meyer’s legacy its proper retrospective examination
So Our Son Married an Axe Murderer is a great movie.
So I Married an Axe Murdereris not.
SIMaAM is original, pretty funny and the mystery element is juuusstt enough to keep it engaging. It is by no means the worlds greatest movie, but I have fond memories of this from my early teens. Also, this article prompted me to look at IMDB and I had no idea that Charlie’s mom is the pigeon lady from Home Alone 2.
I love So I married an Axe Murderer. It’s easily my favorite Myers movie.Head! Pants! Now!
I don’t think you know what “overrated” means, my man.
Mike Myers is the Canadian Peter Sellers.
Wow. That cast is good. Except for the guy playing 7 parts.
Not since Tor Johnson played multiple roles in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.
That cast is old. Myers is median age in that group.
What also appeared to happen is too much plastic surgery.
Um, have you seen his UberEats commercials?
The closest he’s come to plastic surgery is having someone insert a plastic balloon in his head and inflate it to twice its normal size.
How else is an unemployed millionaire supposed to pass the time?
“It’s also Myers’ first live-action starring role since 2008’s The Love Guru.”
Did you forget that you LITERALLY just mentioned that he starred in the reboot of the Gong Show?
Wow, what happened to Mike Myers’ face.
Some of us get wrinkly and gray…some of us turn into plastic. DON’T JUDGE THIS COMIC GENIUS WHO HAS BROUGHT US HOURS AND HOURS OF DELIGHTFUL MOMENTS OF ENTERTAINMENT!Take this from someone who enjoys seeing his latest Uber Eats commercials.
Not judging him, I’m just a bit sad that people do this to themselves.
He looks like the results of the newest intern at Madame Tussaud’s trying to produce an Elon Musk mannequin.
Hey, someone has to keep those botox doctors in Bugattis.
He’s trying to distract you from the hair plugs
I think some people’s faces just cannot handle plastic surgery. It seems to look worst on people with full, round faces, like Myers has.
Has anyone’s output crashed and burned as severely as Mike Myers’s?A couple of weeks ago, I rewatched So I Married an Axe Murderer, and I expected it to be a bust, but that movie holds up. The supporting cast and cameos are uniformly great. Both Wayne’s Worlds are great, and so was the first Austin Powers.And then just about everything else he did since, from the Austin Powers sequels to the fucking Cat in the Hat, was just awful. Anyways, rewatch So I Married an Axe Murderer if you haven’t seen it in a while.
Myers seems to be a weird, sensitive control freak. I’d imagine he’s the type that crumbles when he gets overexposed.I remember seeing an ad for that Gwyneth Paltrow stewardess movie, and it always bothered me that he says “You put the wrong emphasis on the wrong syllable”, since it should just be “You put the emphasis on the wrong syllable.” Apropos of nothing, just a decades-long venting.
HEED! MOOOOVE!I would watch a series based around that Scottish dad character. My goodness those scenes were funny.
HEED! PANTS, NOW!!!Also worthwhile was any time Meyers did random Scotsmen on SNL.
Fat Bastard!
I was thinking more like the guy on an SNL skit that ran a store named All Things Scottish, who was treated for anger by Patrick Stewart’s Scottish therapist. 🙂
He’ll be cryin’ himself to sleep on his huge pilla!
It’s an orange on a toothpick!
It’s like Sputnik…spherical, but quite pointy in parts.
So I Married An Axe Murder – not a wacky character
Wayne – a character, but a recognizable one
Every other role – a wacky character
To me, it’s always seemed like his characters are inside jokes that he doesn’t realize no one else gets. Very rarely, they work well despite that.
I think the real issue is that none of his characters have nuance or dimension. They’re all one joke, or one joke and a Scottish accent.
You have to give him credit for one thing: He could have easily milked moviegoers with Austin Powers 4, and as of yet, Myers has yet to do so.
Also, Alan Arkin is great in it!
“Well, the truth of the matter is, I don’t report to a Commissioner. I report to a committee. Some of whom are appointed, some elected, and the rest co-opted on a bi-annual basis. It’s a quorum, so to speak.”
The Spy Who Shagged Me wasn’t bad, but Goldmember was dire.Anyone else weirded out by those Uber Eats commercials he’s been doing with Dana Carvey as Wayne and Garth? Carvey looks like he just walked off set from the 90s, but then you look at Myers and it’s like Garth is hanging out with Wayne’s uncle.
Has anyone’s output crashed and burned as severely as Mike Myers’s?Fatty Arbuckle? But he raped a girl to death.
I had to run off to Google after this comment, and Jesus Christ.
It may be more complicated than as I stated, definitely worth a deep dive if you’re interested: http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2018/7/10/roscoe-fatty-arbuckle-and-virginia-rappe-fake-news-fact-checking-hollywood-babylon-episode-3
He’s wearing his Canadian Participation Medal. Everyone gets one. It’s nice.
Actually, we revoked the one we gave to Ted Cruz
Eh? Eh!
I’m sorry, but no matter what role he’s playing he always just looks like a terrifyingly distorted William Shatner mask painted white.
Why is Keegan-Michael Key hanging out with a jokerized Elon Musk?
The Love Guru is actual my go to for worse movie ever. Clearly there are other movies even worse, but none with that much money and comedy talent behind. It had all the potential and delivered one low key chuckle. Also, what the hell did Mike Meyers do to his face.
“The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tits up”Oh, PLEASE let Jennifer Saunders play The Queen!
He’ll be playing seven characters who all have strangely immobile faces
“Eat my dust.” — Tatiana Maslany
Is Myers bloated or botoxed in that photo?
why not both?
He’s looking more healthy, at least lol. Maybe it was just for a role but he had grey hair in recent photos. It must have been for a role? Anyway: I’m glad he’s back and I hope that this will be funny as he hasn’t really made me laugh since so I married an axe murderer, sadly…
Yes.
What the Hell was wrong with Bohemian Rhapsody?! It did give us “Malton” after all, plus I thought it was pretty damn good.Anyway, I’m totally in for this show. Only 28 years late!!
Maybe he’ll get a chance to reprise his role as General Ed Fenech from Inglorious Basterds, thus uniting the Tarantino-verse and the Myers-verse and ending reality as we know it..
That picture. Mike, what is you doin?