Love The Guru, Michael

Coming Soon have a brief piece on Mike Myer's upcoming Hallo... sorry, The Love Guru (easy mistake). Their reporter doesn't seem to know who The Marx Bros. were, which is a little disappointing.

Myers is quoted as saying:

In the last three years, I've been developing The Love Guru. The average movie takes 6.0 months; for a 'hmm, could this be a movie adapted to the screen?' I tend to take about 36 months - but I am there all 36 months.

He is a Canadian raised in India, becomes a guru, and helps the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.

Under Shrek's Hood

The CG Society have a 'fairly detailed for a short piece' piece on the technical and artistic challenges encountered in the making of Shrek 3. On the other hand, Aint it Cool have a 'fairly damning for a short piece' piece that slates the film pretty much outright. I don't buy the 'stunning visuals' hoo-hah - we've all seen the trailer and none of us were stunned, I'm sure, but I'm happy to go accept the rest of it.

Uprising Update And More Myers

The New York Times have run a piece on Mike Myer's upcoming films - and we're not talking Halloween. 1: Yet another vehicle for a Myers-created comedy character - this time, a love guru - that seems set to be a franchise launchpad; 2: A Keith Moon biopic, scripted by the Pulitzer winning playwright David Margulies; 3: A sci-fi comedy derived from jokey guide book How To Survive a Robot Uprising.

I told you about the latter in a previous post, where you can also see a video presentation by the author of the Robot Uprising book, Daniel H. Wilson. At the time, of course, I hadn't seen Night at the Museum, which shares a screenwriting duo with this new project - Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant - but now that I have seen Night, I'm happier than ever that Myers will be rewriting, rewriting and rewriting the script himself before it goes into production.