whats the real reason?
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go_titans — 11 years ago(August 25, 2014 11:25 AM)
Yeah sure, but I just loved what he created with the Austin Powers world, and the third installment was my favourite, so I was very disappointed when he didn't make a fourthand so was Seth Green!
I believe some of his last movies were rather unsuccessful at the box office, so perhaps he took this hard and lost his confidence or drive? -
haynese_98 — 11 years ago(September 21, 2014 12:31 AM)
I think family matters got in the way of Meyers making many more movies. He got remarried and now has a couple of kids so he can just coast along doing voiceover work for animated movies.
He's worth over 100 million and he's run out of ideas anyway.
"There is no Hollywood any more, there�s just a bunch of banks" -
jimbrown257 — 11 years ago(December 10, 2014 04:28 AM)
I think people just figured out he was doing the same two minutes of schtick over and over again with slightly different voices.
If you look at his work (the stuff he had the most creative control over, so not Shrek), it took a steady M.Night Shamalyan-like nose dive from his SNL days to whenever he disappeared. -
Elemenoh — 11 years ago(February 06, 2015 06:34 PM)
He's crap to work with. Virtually everyone who does refuses to work with him ever again.
He stole ad-libbed jokes from Dana Carvey on the set of Wayne's World, and almost shut the production down because he wanted a different Alice Cooper song. Also stormed off the set because he didn't have the right brand of margarine for his bagel. This was all after demanding that Carvey's Garth not appear in the film whatsoever. Yes, you read that correctly: He didn't want to have Garth in the film because he felt people only wanted to see Wayne.
He pissed off the crew of So I Married An Axe Murderer so much that nobody from that production would ever work with him again. His little demand to rewrite the script himself even resulted in a major plagiarism lawsuit, which Myers lost.
He also demanded rewrites on the movie "54," so that only his character was portrayed as the founder of the Studio 54 night club.
From there, he refused to do Wayne's World 2 if the original director was brought back, and he sought to have her black-listed in the entertainment industry.
So badly mistreated Elizabeth Hurley during the filming of Austin Powers that he had to write her out of the second script when she essentially told him he could go F himself. This was during the very peak of her career as well, and all he had to do was not treat her like she was some stupid cow of a prop.
Sent the script for Austin Powers out to several producers and performers AT ONCE, which is such a massive no-no that I'm shocked he worked after that. He then scheduled them all for one single meeting because he didn't feel like taking several. The ego that it takes to do that to people like Spielberg, DeNiro, etc. He made enemies of a lot of the hollywood A-List with that one move alone.
Finally, after pissing off Michael Caine and the rest of the Goldmember crew with his bizarre and petty demands (He literally demanded that Michael Caine stop delivering his lines in a funny way so that HE could have the bigger laugh lines), he went on to anger the producers of Cat in the Hat with his constant, bizarre demands.
From there, he made The Love Guru, and refused to listen to any studio notes or the suggestions of his cast and crew. It was obviously a massive turd, and the people who worked on it have all said they won't work with Myers again.
So if you want to know where he went, take a look around the interwebs. No shortage of stories about him acting like a complete dickhead to just about everybody in his path.
And frankly, when the Shrek franchise is finally dead and gone, he'll be stuck with nothing to do and only himself to blame for it. He's spent 25-ish years burning every bridge he could.
Even today, talk show crews trade stories about the time Mike Myers came into their studios and acted like an entitled, arrogant, smug little prick.
So I'd say he deserves to have lost his career except for one voice gig that only toddlers follow. Guy's a complete dickhole. -
P-K-One — 11 years ago(March 21, 2015 03:38 AM)
You have written this post several times now with small variations and while I don't know the truth and do not claim that you are right I just want to point out that there are some problems here.
For example, you claim that his behavior during pre-production of the Austin Powers movie basically ended up with him being blacklisted in Hollywood but that was in 97. So how come he had no problems finding producers, crews and co-stars for movies in the next 10 years?
If he had such a terrible reputation for his behavior during the "Wayne's World" movies, how come he had no problems getting production rolling on "Austin Powers", especially considering the 4 year break between those two movies? It's not like he was a big name in 97 and came fresh of any major successes. His last movie at that time was "Wayne's World 2" in 93, a movie that had been far less successful than the first "Wayne's World".
And finally, many of those claims are unsourced or have weak sources, claims and rumors. I remember an interview with Jessica Alba where she was all smiles and compliments for Mike Meyers and this is an actress who has a reputation for trashing costars. Just google what she had to say about her costars in "Good Luck Chuck".
When you look at it objectively, Mike Meyers has always had huge breaks between bouts of output. After a feature length movie in 1987 he took a 5 year break with only a short in 1989. Then he came back in 192 with "Wayne's World", followed by the second part in 1993 and a break until "Austin Powers" came out in 1997. He was pretty busy until "The Cat in the hat" came out in 2003 but then it was back to voice work until 2008.
The current break is the longest in his career but not the only one. And according to himself, he suffered some form of personal crisis after "Love Guru" for the simple reason that he sees himself as a comedian and an entertainer and after "Love Guru" he started to wonder if he is still funny, if he can still entertain a current audience.
As I said, I do not claim to know the truth but to me it seems that his statements are more in tune with what we see. For example, there a5b4re no interviews of him speaking about projects he is developing but has trouble finding producers for. He basically vanished from the public completely. He really seems to have withdrawn rather than having been pushed out. -
Alpinia — 10 years ago(May 25, 2015 01:37 PM)
I think there is enough out there to be fairly confident in saying that Mike has a real reputation for being difficult. However, that other post is taking it to the extreme and I seriously doubt he is that much of a nightmare to work with.
I think one thing people are overlooking is that comedians have a rather short shelf life. Even the best comedians have maybe 10 years on top before people start getting tired of them. Robin Williams was huge throughout the 80s but people were losing interest in the 90s (at which point he reinvented himself as a dramatic actor). I think people are pretty much over Will Farrell too. When is the last time Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase or Steve Martin had a big hit? Righ2000t now Kevin Hart and Melissa McCarthy are the biggest names in comedy (movies) and if we come back in 5 years I'm sure they'll be on the decline too. About the only comedic actor that has remained on the top of his game for decades is Bill Murray. -
Zingbot_9000 — 10 years ago(August 04, 2015 08:34 AM)
Alpinia, not even true about Bill Murray. Tell me the last comedic hit Murray had where he was the main star? Bill Murray reinvented himself also. He hasn't been a main drawing star in years.
I think the same happened with Myers also. He just gave up more quickly and did not continue putting moves out that were stink bombs like others have.
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SpaceRain — 10 years ago(September 18, 2015 12:36 AM)
I don't know how much of Elemenoh's post is true, but I can say with some certainty that Mike Myers is a dickhead to work with. My friend's uncle worked as a crew member on many major Hollywood films, including a movie with Mike Myers. I can't recall which one she said it was, just that it wasn't Austin Powers. Anyway, she told me Mike fired her uncle one day, on the spot, and gave him no reason whatsoever. She said Mike was a complete jerk to her uncle and many other people in the crew.
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criztu — 10 years ago(August 25, 2015 05:15 AM)
I suspect he went through a crisis, after life gave him a kick in the butt. Most probably it's about love.
See, most achievers and performers have deep problems, mostly low self esteem. Think of Chris Farley, who was hired to play Shrek, but then he died, chocked on coke and vomit.
Mike Myers fared a lot better than Chris Farley, when all that pressure we all keep under the hood, burst out - as I said, usually after life gives you a kick in the butt.