Tarantino and Mike Myers? Exsqueeze me? Baking Powder?

the man who shoots who he wants...

Wow.  You know Hollywood is like a box of chocolates you never…well anyway.  I got up this morning and read there was a union that only Tarantino could produce.  I love Tarantino in almost every way and this is one of those big qualities he brings to film.  Casting.  Good casting.

No……insanely awesome and unique casting that audiences have never imagined!  Samual L. Jackson,Travolta, Eli Roth, Amanda Plummer, Mickey Rourke, David Carradine, Sonny Chiba, Harvey Keitel, Pam Grier, Michael Keaton, Deniro, Buscemi, Bruce Willis, Uma…etc…etc….  But it’s not who he casts neccesarily, it’s what part he casts them to play.

Tarantino has an ability to take a stale actor who for years has done the same typecast role or nothing at all and give them a role that breathes life into their spirit as an artist and pair them with other actors in a union that doesn’t make sense.  Consequently it may also breath life into a dead horse career as it did for Travolta – who unfortunatley used his good fortune to slip back into his coma of hollywood mediocrity.

tarantino material...oh yes...

So, it was a bit shocking but maybe not surprising when I read that Tarantino has cast Mike Myers in his new WWII movie, “Inglorious Bastards.”

Myers will be playing British General Ed Fenech, a military genius who helps devise a plan to take out a number of Nazi leaders. He’ll join an already intriguing cast that includes Brad Pitt, Eli Roth (the “Hostel” director), B.J. Novak (the latest breakout star of “The Office“) and another Tarantino comeback candidate, Nastassja Kinski (“Cat People“).

Mike Myers was great in both Wayne’s World films, So I Married an Axe Murderer, and he was the only thing good about the film 54.  Though that was several years ago and Myers needs a little film love now because his last film, “The Love Guru” did poorly at the box office and it’s starting to feel like Myers is a one trick pony with Austin Powers.  Don’t get me wrong, I love Austin Powers…I’m just not sure it’s the only thing I want to love about Mike Myers.  There’s way more to this man than the world is seeing and perhaps he just needed a different direction or director to take him there.  Tarantino is the way to go – that man could film a rock and make it interesting.

Well done Mike.  I look forward to “Inglorious Bastards.”