Netflix will give viewers eight times the Mike Myers for the price of one in The Pentaverate. Ahead of the release of Myers’ new series in May, Netflix has released an official trailer with more footage of Myers in his eight different roles. The new trailer unveils Myers in character as Lord Lordington, Bruce Baldwin, Mishu Ivanov, Shep Gordon, and Jason Eccleston. Rob Lowe and Maria Menounous also make appearances.​​​​​​​ You can watch the trailer below.

In the film, Myers plays Ken Scarborough, an old-school Canadian news journalist who sets out to expose the Pentaverate and win his job back; Anthony Lansdowne, a New England conspiracy theorist determined to expose the Pentaverate; Rex Smith, a far-right radio host and highly prominent conspiracy theorist; Lord Lordington, the Pentaverate’s oldest and highest-ranking member; Bruce Baldwin, former media mogul; Mishu Ivanov, a former Russian oligarch; Shep Gordon, a former rock ’n roll manager; and Jason Eccleston, a tech genius who invented the Pentaverate’s supercomputer, MENTOR.

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Jennifer Saunders will also be pulling double duty by playing two roles, as both the Maester and Saester of Dubrovnik. Other cast members include Ken Jeong as casino mogul Skip Cho; Keegan-Michael Key as nuclear physicist Dr. Hobart Clark; Debi Mazar as the Pentaverate’s Executive Assistant, Patty Davis; Richard McCabe as head of the Liechtenstein Guard, Exalted Pikeman Higgins; and Lydia West as Reilly Clayton, a young woman working with the Canadian News Station hoping to expose the group. Jeremy Irons also serves as narrator of the series.

Mike Myers Created The Pentaverate

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Mike Myers created the series with Tim Kirkby serving as director. Both Myers and Kirkby also executive produced with John Lyons, Tony Hernandez, and Lilly Burns for Jax Media, as well as Jason Weinberg. You can read the official synopsis for The Pentaverate below.

Myers might be at home playing multiple characters in one film. After all, fans saw him playing both the protagonist and antagonist in the Austin Powers movies. Be that as it may, playing eight different characters in one story is new for the actor, but it’s good news for Myers fans who just can’t seem to get enough. For his co-star Ken Jeong, working with Myers on the project was like a dream come true.

“What if a secret society of five men has been working to influence world events for the greater good since the Black Plague of 1347? As this new series begins, one unlikely Canadian journalist finds himself embroiled in a mission to uncover the truth and just possibly save the world himself. Remember, the Pentaverate must never be exposed!​​​​​​​”

“Working on The Pentaverate was a career highlight for me because Mike Myers is not only a friend now, but he is really one of my comedy inspirations,” Ken Jeong said of working on the series, per Looper. “One of the reasons why I do comedy at all is because of Mike, and a lot of comedic actors would say the same thing.”

The Pentaverate premieres on May 5, 2022. You can stream the series on Netflix.