Aug 22, 2007 - Justin Timberlake is reuniting with Shrek the Third star Mike Myers for the comedy movie, The Love Guru, set up at Paramount Pictures. Timberlake joins the cast which also includes Jessica Alba, Romany Malco and Myers' little buddy from the Austin Powers movies, Verne Troyer ('Mini Me').
Pop star-turned-actor Timberlake will play a professional hockey player named Jacques Grande in the film to be directed by Marco Schnabel. Myers and Graham Gordy wrote the screenplay with Myers also serving in a producer role along with Michael De Luca. Donald J Lee, Jr, Roger Birnbaum and Gary Barber are executive producing.
The Official The Love Guru Synopsis
Pitka (Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the US to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Malco) and his estranged wife.
After the split, Roanoke's wife starts dating LA Kings star Jacques Grande (Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid - to the horror of the teams' owner Jane Bullard (Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old "Bullard Curse" and win the Stanley Cup.
Source: Paramount Pictures
