Sacha Baron Cohen's 'The Dictactor' Takes Saddam Hussein To NYC

By Larry Yepez jr.

From Bruno to Saddam, the hysterically funny, Golden Globe-winning Sacha Baron Cohen is at it again. Currently in New York, Sacha B C is shooting his upcoming film The Dictator, where he plays a tyrannical ruler of a small country, a la Saddam Hussein. The film is inspired by the best-selling novel "Zabibah and the King", written by no other than Saddam Hussein himself.

For this film, Paramount reunites Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles -who also directed Bruno and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The studio is reportedly paying Sacha B.C. $20 million to star and produce the movie, with an estimated budget of $58 million. Paramount won the studio bidding race for the film after sending a couple of goats in paramount T-shirts to Sacha's house.

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 Middle Eastern dictator goes to New York City for a meeting at the United Nations where he gets secretly replaced by a look-alike goat herder, and now must find meaning to his new life in the Big Apple. Sacha B.C. plays both the dictator and the goat herder.

Photos from the set show Sacha B.C. going all out crazy in NYC. From running marathons -shooting his gun to start the race sooner-, to riding camels in military uniform down 5th Avenue, the funny British man has sure made the Big Apple his own playground.

Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley and Megan Fox also star in the movie, due for release in May 2012.

Some are comparing similarities between Cohen's The Dictator and Charlie Chaplin's 1940 classic film The Great Dictator. The Chaplin film is a satire on Nazi Germany, where the dictator Adenoid Hynkel also has a double, a poor Jewish barber who is mistaken for the Fuhrer. Chaplin also produced and starred in this film -like Sacha does in his.

As for the subject matter, it's the first time that Sacha goes full on politics.

Is this a topic to be making 'sexy time' fun of? Is Sacha B.C. going too far? Tell us what you think.

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