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Mike Myers involved in "Robot Uprising"
POSTED ON 04/28/06 AT 11:30 A.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES

Variety reports that Mike Myers will join Paramount Pictures' "How to Survive a Robot Uprising" for "Austin Powers" producer Michael De Luca. Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant (TV's "Reno 911") will pen the script.

The comedy is based on a manual written by Daniel H. Wilson, a doctoral candidate at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. Myers will play a technical administrator whose job it is to monitor any danger from the growing presence of robots and researching ways to keep those robots from taking over.