Austin Powers (film series)
The Austin Powers series is a series of three American actioncomedy films Austin Powers International Man of Mystery 1997, Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 and Austin Powers in Goldmember 2002. The films were directed by Jay Roach produced, written by and starring Mike Myers as both the title character and the main antagonist Dr. Evil and distributed by New Line Cinema.
Myers himself has stated in interviews that the idea for Austin Powers came to him one night while driving home from ice hockey practice. Hearing the song The Look of Love by Burt Bacharach on his car radio, he wondered Where have all the swingers gone?, and conceived the character who would become Austin Powers.The first phrase he thought the character might say was Do I make you horny? which later did indeed become a catch phrase for the character. He has also disclosed that the character also draws on his recollections of former Radio Caroline DJ Simon Dee who hosted the first real TV chat show in the United Kingdom in 1967 which ended with his driving off in a sports car with a young blonde in the passenger seat. An important inspiration for the series is British super spy James Bond. Myers said of Bond, I cant even tell you how huge it was in our house ... Thats really why I wanted to do Austin Powers. Austin Powers is out of pure love for James Bond. ........
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