It has been 25 years since we have had a new Austin Powers movie, yet his mask has been selling out all over the place? Why does everyone want to dress up as this Mike Myers for Halloween and not the other one who has a franchise based on the holiday? Two words, Baby Driver!
As soon as the actors put on the masks in that film, the director knew it was going to be a hot costume this year. So much so, Edgar Wright told The Hollywood Reporter, “I even mentioned to Warner Bros. [which released Austin Powers under New Line Cinema] that they may ship a lot of masks at Halloween, and I think that’s exactly what’s happened.” They didn’t and now people will be left going as that other Mike Myers instead because that is all they can get.
Talking about Mike Myers, if someone can tell the actor that people are dying to be the International Man of Mystery this year, then maybe we can finally get that fourth movie we have been waiting a quarter of a century for. Yeah, baby!
