Every few years or so, when the subject of a fourth Austin Powers movie comes up, director Jay Roach typically offers some variation of the same reply: It’s up to Mike Myers, the star of the hit comedy trilogy about London’s foremost swingin’ super-spy. In a recent interview with The Independent, Roach returned to the idea of a sequel yet again while contemplating the success of the first three films—the last of which, Goldmember, was released in 2002 (cue your existential crisis). Roach reiterated that a fourth film would have “more to do with Dr. Evil,” though the original idea was to take a closer look at Mini-Me, the sidekick character played by the late Verne Troyer. The actor, who died in 2018, first played the character in the 1999 sequel The Spy Who Shagged Me, and memorably reprised the role for Goldmember, which featured a hilarious prison duet of “Hard Knock Life” with Myers’ Dr. Evil.