class=”alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-101943″ title=”Austin Powers” src=”https://www.heyuguys.com/images/2011/08/Austin-Powers-220×150.jpg” alt=”” width=”220″ height=”150″ />John McClane did it. Indiana Jones did it. Heck, even Sydney Prescott did it. It looks as though Austin Powers is to be among the recent slew of cult classics to chance an encore on nostalgic cinema audiences (via The Wrap).
Mike Myers, International Ogre of Mystery, has allegedly signed on the dotted line to return to screens as the titular James Bond pastiche. With the chest-wig being baited by trappers and the catchphrases being duly summoned from Hell, it appears that all is in order for another sensory assault of psychedelic proportions, courtesy of New Line Cinema.
With the Bond franchise well and truly lampooned, it is difficult to imagine where the Austin Powers franchise might hope to go with a fourth instalment. With laugh-muffling darkness setting over the Hollywood hills, will Austin Powers attempt to subvert Bonds darker direction? Will it comment on the nine years between Goldmember and this belated fourth instalment? Or will it simply find something new to turn into a giant mechanical penis?
