The Cat in the Hat star has finally signed on to play drummer Keith Moon in a biopic based on "The Who" band-member. The untitled film about the rocker best known as the finest 'drum kit' destroyer in history has been in the works for about ten years.

"(Myers) was so busy co-writing and playing four characters in (Austin Powers) that the project never quite came together. He is eager to make it happen now," a source was quoted as saying.

"The Who" frontman Roger Daltrey will produce along with Nigel Sinclair of Spitfire Pictures, who have been working on the ambitious project on and off for a decade.

Austin Powers star Mike Myers is ready to play one of his heroes, the late Keith Moon, who was as wild offstage as on, earning himself a reputation for trashing hotel rooms, cars, and friends' homes, heaving televisions out of hotel windows and letting off fire extinguishers, blowing up toilets, often throwing furniture out of high windows and destroying the plumbing with firecrackers.
The rock star got injured in an explosion he set during an appearance on American TV - causing guitarist Pete Townshend's hair to catch fire.

Moon died in 1978 at the age of 32 after overdosing on an anti-seizure medication, Heminevrin, taken as part of a program to wean him off alcohol.