The L.A. Times’s 24 Frames has been told that Borat and Bruno helmer Larry Charles will again direct Sacha Baron Cohen in the comic’s next project, known around town as The Dictator, despite reports to the contrary.
Paramount’s not talking, but sources close to the project confirm Charles‘s involvement. The film has a Prince and the Pauper-ish feels to it, centering on the story of a goat herder intercut with that of a foreign dictator lost in America.
Charles is best known as Larry David‘s co-hort on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld, but he also directed Bill Maher‘s provocative documentary Religulous. As wildly slapstick as Borat and Bruno were, both films contained some nice jabs at contemporary American culture and it’s many hypocrisies, and Maher’s documentary fairly reveled in scathing commentary. With Charles at the helm of The Dictator – which Baron Cohen presumably would begin after wrapping Martin Scorsese‘s Hugo Cabret – we can hope for more well-timed sucker punches at the Heartland.
Are you looking forward to another Sacha Baron Cohen comedy project?