Borat, Bruno, Saddam Hussein?
After Borat and Bruno became international sensations, producers wondered how Sacha Baron Cohen was ever going to be able to go undercover again. Turns out, he's not going to try. For his next act, the British comedian will adapt a novel by somebody not normally recognized in the world of letters: Saddam Hussein. When he wasn't ruling Iraq with an iron fist, the Observer reports, Saddam was working on Zabibah and the King, a thinly fictionalized novel about an oppressive 12th-century Iraqi ruler. Zabibah will serve as inspiration for Cohen's next project, The Dictator, brought to you by the same people who masterminded his previous two movies. It'll be released in May 2012, and according to the press release "tells the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed."
