Based on Jill St John’s Bond girl Tiffany Case from Diamonds Are Forever (1971), her character remains a franchise highlight. With Hurley out, Heather Graham came in as Felicity Shagwell. Hurley returned for a single scene, as did Will Ferrell, who played the invincible henchman Mustafa. The majority of the original cast returned for the sequel, some in a far smaller capacity. “Mike kept shooting a few more, but it was my take that we ended up using. When sitting down to discuss a potential follow-up, Myers and co-writer Michael McCullers decided that if they were to revisit the groovy world Austin inhabits, they had to amp things up.
But thanks to home video, people saw it and the film started to develop a life of its own. It was out very briefly in theatres and didn’t perform that well.
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“The first movie was a very independent film that had trouble getting financed. “None of us had any expectations,” remembers Seth Green, who plays Dr Evil’s son, Scott Evil, in all three films. Simply put: without the advent of DVD, The Spy Who Shagged Me wouldn’t have existed. As a result, the film found a bigger audience at home than it ever did in the cinema. Over the following year, word of mouth spread like wildfire as the film’s quotable dialogue (“Yeah, baby, yeah!” “Danger’s my middle name”) entered the public consciousness. It amassed a modest $53m and debuted at No 2 in the North American box office behind Kurt Russell thriller Breakdown.
The film was the sequel to International Man of Mystery, which on its release in 1997 didn’t exactly set the world alight. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me teaser trailer
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