(Paramount)
The first photo of Sacha Baron Cohen in costume as The Dictator has surfaced.
According to Paramount, “The film 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.”
The movie is inspired by Zabibah and the King, a book supposedly written by Saddam Hussein about a monarch in the Middle East.
In the film, Cohen plays both the dictator and a lookalike goat herder who replaces him.
It’s directed by Larry Charles, the guy behind Cohen’s hits Borat and Bruno.
The Dictator is scheduled for a May 2012 release.
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