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Briefly: Sacha Baron Cohen‘s next project with Paramount may be a slightly more traditional type of comedy than his Da Ali G Show spin-off satires have been. The writer/actor just sold a pitch to the studio that “follows a James Bond-like spy forced to go on the run with his long-lost brother, a moronic soccer hooligan.” Sounds like a reasonable plan, and the hooligan brother could be a way to get some of Cohen’s signature comedy style into a film that relies more heavily on scripted setpieces than we’re used to seeing from him.
Cohen will script with Phil Johnston, with whom he delivered the pitch to Paramount. Johnston scripted last year’s comedy Cedar Rapids, as well as the upcoming Wreck-It Ralph, and Alexander Payne’s next film, Nebraska.
