Mike Myers will star in a remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty for 20th Century Fox.

The story is about a daydreamer who uses his vivid imagination to escape from mundane, ordinary life.

The project has been in the works for years, with Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy both attached to star at some point, and Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard among the directors showing an interest.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr. is producing the movie at Fox with Myers in the lead and Jay Kogen, a writer and producer on The Simpsons, Frasier, and CBS’ The Class, writing a new script.

Myers is scheduled to next start work on Paramount’s Marco Schnabel-directed comedy The Love Guru, which will start production in September. Myers will play Pitka, a self-help guru character he created.

Mitty will compete for the actor’s time with See Me, Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure, the Spitfire Pictures/Gerber Pictures drama in which he will play the hard-living drummer for the Who. Playwright Donald Margulies (Brooklyn Boy) has completed a first draft and will do a rewrite. The Who’s Roger Daltrey is aboard as a producer.

Myers is also attached to star in How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and is in early discussions with New Line and director Jay Roach for a fourth installment of the Austin Powers series that tells the story from the viewpoint of Dr. Evil.

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