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Sacha Baron Cohen Gets Into ‘Dictator’ Mode

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 9, 2011 @ 11:56am PDTTags: Alec Berg, Anna Faris, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer, Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen, Scott Rudin, The Dictator
Mike Fleming

Paramount Pictures has released an early image of Sacha Baron Cohen as The Dictator, the comedy in which he plays the dual roles of a ruthless dictator who heads to the U.S. for a meeting at the United Nations and finds that his number two has replaced him with an unsuspecting sheepherder lookalike. As the dictator wanders the city, he meets the owner of an organic food store (Anna Faris) who gives him a different perspective on the idea of oppression. Baron Cohen’s Borat and Bruno director Larry Charles is helming, and Paramount has set a May 11, 2012 worldwide release date. Scripted by former Seinfeld scribes Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel, The Dictator is being produced by Scott Rudin, Baron Cohen and the scribes.

I saw a report that claimed Baron Cohen was playing Saddam Hussein, a bit of confusion because the filmmakers have said the film was inspired by Zabibh and The King, which was written by the late Iraqi strongman. But that’s a misnomer and I think Baron Cohen’s hairstyle is more Seinfeld’s Kramer than Hussein.

 

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Anna Faris In Talks To Star With Sacha Baron Cohen In ‘The Dictator’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 2, 2011 @ 5:23pm PDTTags: Alec Berg, Anna Faris, David Mandel, Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen, Scott Rudin
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Faris has been offered and is in negotiations for the female lead in The Dictator, the Paramount Pictures comedy that has Sacha Baron Cohen starring in dual roles. Baron Cohen’s Borat and Bruno director Larry Charles is helming, … Read More »

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