Could we be getting an Austin Powers sequel 20 years after the original film?

Publish Date
Friday, 28 April 2017, 9:23AM

It's been 20 years since Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery made its debut.

And creator and star Mike Myers is still considering another sequel.

The 53-year-old told The Hollywood Reporter that he is still considering following The Spy Who Shagged Me and Goldmember with a third sequel, according to the Daily Mail.

"I would love to do another, but you just have to see," he told the mag, as part of a huge cast reunion celebrating the anniversary.

Director of the original Jay Roach added that they have discussed making a fourth film for 15 years now.

"We have also always said we don't want to do it unless we came up with something that lived up to the concepts in our mind," he said. "Until Mike feels like he has a concept that earns a fourth, it won't happen. 

"But if it did, we have all agreed that we would be delighted to get back into it."

In the lengthy piece, the cast discusses the making of the spy spoof, and how it almost earned itself an R-rating ... but not for the infamous 'nude food' scene featuring a naked Myers and Elizabeth Hurley.

"Bizarrely, we shot it in the Scientology Celebrity Centre in L.A," Hurley recalled.

"It took a whole day, as it was one continuous take. Mike and I were nude but covered with little bits of red sticky tape. We all knew each other so well by then, so we weren't self-conscious."

The censors were, in fact, more aggrieved at Myers butt cheek when he was first defrosted.

"We got an R-rating. We had to negotiate and cut," Roach remembered. "The nudity blocking was something the MPAA wanted to be sure we didn't go too far with: the cheeky phallic references, like Elizabeth biting the sausage and holding the melons up. 

"But they were all pretty innocent body-shape jokes. The only thing they asked us to do in the final cut, which was kind of surprising to me, was they thought there was too much butt-cheek on Mike when he got thawed out, so I went for a slightly more profile version."

This article was first published on Daily Mail and is republished here with permission.

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