Sacha Baron Cohen has Dinner for Schmucks

Published: September 5, 2007, 5:56 am

Tags: dreamworks, comedy, casting, sequels remakes, screenwriting, dinner for schmucks, jay roach, sacha baron cohen

Variety has officially announced Sacha Baron Cohen’s next project, a follow-up to Borat based on another one of his Ali G show characters, Bruno. One problem, didn’t we report this months and months ago? Didn’t we also hear that production on the film had already begun? We had reports of a Bruno sighting at the LA World Trade Week. Did that not happen? But Variety does have one new Cohen casting announcement: Sacha is set to star in a DreamWorks remake of the french comedy film Le Diner de Cons. Dinner for Schmucks will be directed by Jay Roach (Austin Powers), based on a script by David Guion and Michael Handelman. Roach was a producer on Borat and is also producing Bruno. The French film focused on a weekly dinner party held by a Paris publisher who challenges his friends to bring the biggest idiot. According to Variety, “Cohen will play a character blessed with such extraordinary schmuckiness that he can destroy the personal life of anyone with whom he

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