Justin Timberlake is more than living up to his moniker “Trousersnake” with a role as a well-hung wannabe 70s porn star in a new comedy.

The pop singer sports a dodgy ‘tache, big hair, tiny speedos and little else as Jacques Grande in The Love Guru.

Grande is a professional skater and aspiring porno actor who has stolen away the wife of a rival hockey player whose career has subsequently gone on the skids.

Austin Powers star Mike Myers plays an Indian guru who makes people fall in love and he attempts to break into the US self-help market by resolving this “triangle of lurve”.

Jessica Alba, Ben Kingsley and Jessica Simpson also star in this ridiculous comedy along with Verne Troyer, who played Mini Me in the Austin Powers series.

The film is set to be release this July.

After four years off, Mike Myers finally returns to the big screen in The Guru.  His last live-action movie was 2003’s The Cat in the Hat.

He finally returns with The Love Guru, which hits screens June 20. The film, which also stars Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake and Ben Kingsley, features Myers as Pitka, an American left as a child at the gates of an ashram in India. Pitka becomes a self-help guru who tries to smooth the marital rift of a hockey star and his wife.

Myers, a native of Ontario, says he wrote the film because of his interests in Eastern philosophy and hockey. But he isn’t the type to zip out a script the moment an idea hits.

“I enjoy having the Lamaze birthing process of it,” says Myers, who also authored the Wayne’s World and Austin Powers franchises. “It usually takes me three, 3½ years in between characters.”

Why so long? He’s very protective of his original live-action characters. “I’ve written and created everything I’ve done, and it takes me a year to reflect on what I’ve done, a year to let the idea incubate and a year to create” a new character.

For Pitka, that included playing a philosopher of Eastern religion in New York and Los Angeles, where some unsuspecting passersby sought advice from Myers, who never broke from character.

“They asked some very spiritual and deep questions,” he says. “It’s been fascinating combining comedy with a nice life-affirming message.”

Fascinating, if challenging. He knows combining comedy, hockey and Eastern principles is a little “like figuring out how they got the peanut butter in the chocolate and the chocolate in the peanut butter.”

But he didn’t expect the Wayne’s World or Austin Powers films to be successes, either.

“When I did Wayne’s World, I thought you had to grow up in my neighborhood to get it,” he says. “When I did Austin, I thought you had to grow up in my house to get it, because my parents are from Liverpool. But I’ve been very lucky to create things people have liked, so I have to stay true to the things that interest me.”

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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Mike Myers may be busy promoting Shrek The Third, but he’s already talking about the possibility of a fourth instalment of Austin Powers.

“I have figured out that the story will be taken from the point of Doctor Evil,” the 43-year-old actor told SciFi Wire during an interview for his latest Shrek instalment.

“It will be powered from Doctor Evil’s point of view,” the actor added, before admitting: “I haven’t figured it all out. Who knows?”

He added that he may start work on the fourth Austin Powers film after he finishes his next project, a comedy called The Love Guru.

But he admitted he’ll have to really want to do it – as writing, producing and starring in the Austin Powers films is a pretty time-consuming process.

“It takes three and a half to four years for me to do a movie, and it has to be something I’m feeling passionate about at the time.”

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In between voicing the multi-billion dollar “Shrek” franchise, Mike Myers will be playing crazy drummer of The Who, Keith Moon, in a movie based on his life.

The projects full title is ’See Me, Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure’, and is due in 2009.

The film is described as “A look at the life and death of Keith Moon (Myers), whose innovative drumming and penchant for destroying his kit made The Who one of the most influential, rebellious bands of the 1970s”. So not much revealed there then. 

The project has been rumoured for some time but the gears are starting to turn now that Myers has a window in between the Shrek films.

The project is produced by Roger Dawltrey, and Pete Townsend will have a hand in the soundtrack.

I don’t know about you…but I have MISSED Mike Myers! I’m just glad he’s going to do another movie!!