Michael Myers Love Guru Shooting in Toronto

In two months I’m starting a movie called ‘The Love Guru’ that I’ve spent the last two and a half years developing. I came up with this character and I would tour it in little theaters in New York. Just have little secret shows. The Marx Bros. used to tour their movies for a year before they filmed them. I did this same process with ‘Austin Powers.’ When I did ‘Wayne’s World’ I had ‘Saturday Night Live’ to tour it. When I left ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I toured ‘Austin Powers.’

 

And the last three years I’ve been developing ‘The Love Guru.’ And now, it’s at Paramount and I’m shooting in August. And then after that there’s a slot and I’ll probably do the Keith Moon movie. That’ll also be in development during that time. You see, when you write stuff…I didn’t write Keith Moon, that’s Donald Margulies, who is a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright. He wrote an amazing, brilliant script. But he’s invited me into the process, like, ‘What do you think? What do you think?’ And I’m like, ‘Great.’ The average movie takes 60 months from the first kind of ‘Hmm, could this be a movie?’ to it being on the screen. I tend to take about 36 months, but I am there all 36 months.  He is a Canadian who is raised in India, becomes a guru and helps the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. (Laughs.)