The post Lorne Michaels Wanted Mike Myers to Remake The Graduate Instead of Making Wayne’s World appeared first on Consequence. The 1967 classic film, starring Dustin Hoffman as a disaffected ...

Mike Myers on Beyonce, How ‘Wayne’s World’ Success “Rocked My World” and Turning Down Lorne Michaels for ‘The Graduate’ Remake The comedy icon joined David O. Russell in Hollywood ...

In Mike Myers’ new six-part Netflix series, “The Pentaverate,” the Canadian comedy legend plays eight new characters. Add them to a repertoire that includes such beloved weirdos as Wayne ...

“Lorne took me aside and said, ‘Penelope, if you don’t change the movie, you won’t be able to direct Wayne’s World 2. Mike’s not going to approve you,'” she recalls.

Mike Myers recently told Vulture that rumors claiming Dr. Evil from the “Austin Powers” film franchise is based on “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels are simply not true.

Director Penelope Spheeris, who helmed the movie for Michaels and Paramount Pictures, was not part of the sequel, and rumors have swirled for years that it was about on-set clashes with Mike Myers ...

On film, his whimsical, dismissive mien provided the basis for Mike Myers’ “Austin Powers” villain Dr. Evil; on “SNL50,” his putative best friends from growing up in Canada (played by ...

Myers, for his part, did admit that Michaels was a part of his Dr. Evil during a 2017 interview, but wouldn’t say he’d lifted the specifics from Carvey’s original impression.

Much as the legend has grown that Mike Myers’ Austin Powers character Dr. Evil is a Lorne Michaels parody, Myers insists “The Lorne of it is just a little tiny overlay.” ...