One could reasonably assume that Sacha Baron Cohen was tossed off the property, while dressed as General Aladeen from his movie The Dictator, after he dumped an urn filled with fake ashes all over Ryan Seacrest's suit on the Academy Awards red carpet. But what happened next? His agents got a scary phone call from the Academy and they even tried to get Martin Scorsese to blackball him.
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The Oscar bosses have surrendered to Sacha Baron Cohen. After banning him from walking the red carpet as the character from his upcoming flick The Dictator, Admiral General Aladeen, he subsequently went on a PR blitz, creating a video in costume demanding his tickets and calling the Today show to make Ann Curry laugh awkwardly with jokes like “I paid Hilary Swank $2million to be my date and she will not refund a penny.” Possibly realizing, that 1) Cohen would probably pull a stunt regardless, and 2) all the buzz he was drumming up could mean more viewers for the famously boring awards show, they are now back pedaling.
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After luring unwitting Americans into becoming the stars of his last two movies, Sacha Baron Cohen looks to be taking a much more traditional approach to filmmaking. And by “traditional,” we mean showing a scene in which a woman karate-chops a pile bricks with her breasts. The Dictator is Cohen’s scripted comedy about a Hussein-Qaddafi hybrid searching for his place in the world. The trailer doesn't reveal much, including the dictator's eventual American love interest, played by Anna Faris, but it's enough to have us intrigued. Take a look at the trailer after the jump.
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We're not sure what's going on in this first official photo from Sacha Baron Cohen's now-filming movie, The Dictator, but it's giving us the willies. Some background info: Baron Cohen stars as a Saddam-ish, iron-fisted ruler who relocates to New York City after being replaced by a goat herder (also played by Baron Cohen) back home. Then he falls in love with an organic food chick played by Anna Faris and blah blah happily ever after blah blah. But if anyone is going to fall in love with this guy, he'll have to do something about that palindromic hair and those Ibiza-turd glasses.
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After wrapping Bruno and shuttering the Ali G empire, it's been a long couple of years of waiting to see what Sacha Baron Cohen would do next. Would he go all Dave Chapelle on us, disappearing into pile of his own millions, smoking weed and shirking the spotlight? Or would he pull a Jerry Seinfeld, marry a Barbie doll, buy a bunch of Porsches, and not do anything funny ever again? Or maybe he would do a Ricky Gervais -- give up the hard-won integrity of his previous projects to play the lead in rom-coms and insult people (brilliantly) at awards shows? But that would be to underestimate Cohen, who's gone and made a film "inspired by the best selling novel, Zabibah and The King, by Saddam Hussein."
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