The Mike Myers zombie movie you’ll never see: “I made an entire film”
While his namesake has been in enough horror movies to last a lifetime, Mike Myers has never appeared in so much as one, and he’s unlikely to ever cross that bridge when he’s basically semi-retired at this point.
When you think of people with the surname ‘Myers’ who have anything to do with the genre, there’s only one name that comes to mind, and it’s the boiler suit-loving and mask-wearing antagonist of the Halloween franchise, which did lend itself to a great gag in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver when the filmmaker couldn’t secure the rights to use Laurie Strode’s arch-nemesis.
Michael Myers has stabbed his way through 12 of the 13 instalments in the never-ending franchise, but the closest Mike Myers has ever come to the genre was probably So I Married an Axe Murderer, and that’s tenuous at best when the plot revolves around someone who may or may not be a serial killer.
However, despite making his name in comedy and becoming one of its biggest stars before The Love Guru pressed the self-destruct button on a professional freefall that he’s never shown much interest in arresting, the Wayne’s World and Austin Powers creator has made a zombie flick, albeit one that you’ll never see.
It wasn’t an abandoned production, an unreleased feature, or a mothballed shoot, either; it was done entirely for his own amusement for little more than shits and giggles, with the actor, writer, and producer using his free time on a rare acting role to create a blood-splattered horror story of his very own, which he has no inclination of sharing with the world.
In typical Myers fashion, he slathered himself in makeup and prosthetics to play a supporting part in writer and director Vaughn Stein’s 2018 thriller, Terminal, with star Margot Robbie admitting that she was shocked when the reclusive Shrek headliner agreed to appear in the picture, since she assumed it didn’t have a hope in hell of landing him.
“I had enough time, by the way, to make an entire film on my phone while we were making the film,” he revealed. “So, I would go in the makeup trailer, and I would cover myself in blood, and I made a zombie apocalypse movie on my phone,” which is nothing if not a productive way to whittle away the time between scenes.
In general, Terminal sounded like a productive shoot for Myers, who, in addition to filming a whole zombie movie on his phone for little other reason than shits and giggles, was introduced to the concept of day drinking and shot-gunning beers by Robbie, who was intent on living up to those Australian stereotypes, apparently.
There is a such a thing as an apocalyptic zombie horror directed by and starring Mike Myers, which he may as well release to the world one day, since it wouldn’t be too hard for the lo-fi effort to be a major upgrade on his last starring role in the terrible Netflix series, The Pentaverate.
