Mike Myers touting self-help with comedy

Mike Myers

LOS ANGELES - Mike Myers is in final negotiations to write, produce and star in an untitled self-help comedy.

The Paramount Pictures centres on a self-help guru named Pitka who is called upon to solve a couple's romantic problems. Like Myers' groovy Austin Powers incarnation, Pitka was created and workshopped by Myers at several cinemas in Manhattan. Myers will co-write with long-time associate Graham Gordy.

In April, Myers signed on to star in Paramount's How to Survive a Robot Uprising.

Myers, whose credits include the Austin Powers trilogy and Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat, will again voice the title character in the third instalment of DreamWorks' animated Shrek franchise.

- REUTERS/Hollywood Reporter