Larry Charles is set to direct Sacha Baron Cohen’s newest film The Dictator. The film is written by Cohen and Curb Your Enthusiasm writers Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel.
This will be Charles’ third directorial outing on a Cohen project, having previously hit box office gold with the hilarious Borat, and the less hilarious Bruno. According to 24 Frames, the film will be Cohen’s next project after Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret. Hit the jump for my thoughts and more info on the film.
The Dictator was picked up by Paramount back in April when they made a very generous offer to Cohen. Paramount was bidding against Sony and other studios for the rights to the film. Paramount ended up winning the rights after sending two goats wearing Paramount shirts to Cohen and his talent agency, WME.
Cohen will reportedly play two roles in the movie: a goat herder (hence the goats from Paramount) and a deposed foreign dictator who gets lost in the United States. On first glance it seems to already have more layers than Bruno, and that could only be a good thing.
Back in 2006 everything seemed to be “very nice!” for Cohen and Charles as the whole world engaged in reciting never-ending Borat quotes. But it was understandable, because Borat still remains one of the funniest movies of the decade. Then along came Bruno in 2009, which felt forced and overly scripted, as well as trying to swap controversy for comedy. It’s good to see Cohen go for new characters here after officially retiring those from Da Ali G Show Following two characters will hopefully prevent The Dictator from dragging on or suffering with the same jokes. Here’s hoping this movie is bad… NOT.
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Sounds like a gigantic homage to The Great Dictator in some respects. Color me excited
I’m with Stune. I’m certain the relationship to one of Chaplin’s greatest films isn’t lost to the like of Cohen!
is this again one of those “mockumentary” films?
i love Borat(though i admit it doesnt improve on multipile viewings), didn’t not care much for Bruno, but i would to see them take it as a conventional feature. you can’t trick people now especially after Cohen hit worldwide success.
People can get tricked so easy. I mean Kutcher spent years doing it after his show got big and he was doing it to a tiny pool of people with just his same old schlock.
New character, though personally I wouldn’t buy somebody telling me he was a deposed dictator; I happen to know of all the living deposed dictators.
People can get tricked so easy. I mean Kutcher spent years doing it after his show got big and he was doing it to a tiny pool of people with just his same old schlock.
New character, though personally I wouldn’t buy somebody telling me he was a deposed dictator; I happen to know of all the living deposed dictators.
The equivelant to Jamaal Charles role is the same as Chester Taylor on the Vikings, Darren Sproles on the Chargers, Kevin Faulk on the Patriots, Ladell Betts on the Redskins, Tim Hightower on the Cardinals, Leon Washington on the Jets, etc.
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Exactly what I was thinking Stune. Bruno wasn’t all that bad, I think the homosexual overtones scared most people away from actually liking the movie, but there was some extremely funny scenes in that movie. And the social messages (not political), where funny as hell. For example when he went to the swingers party and tried to subjugate the men, that didn’t go over to well lol.
Exactly what I was thinking Stune. Bruno wasn’t all that bad, I think the homosexual overtones scared most people away from actually liking the movie, but there was some extremely funny scenes in that movie. And the social messages (not political), where funny as hell. For example when he went to the swingers party and tried to subjugate the men, that didn’t go over to well lol.