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Published on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 1:43am |
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Sacha Baron Cohen Wages Class Warfare with ACCIDENTES!
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Is Sacha Baron Cohen being indecisive, or is he just keeping his options open? Whatever he's doing, he just attached himself to a third studio comedy that could be his follow-up to BRUNO (which is presumably in search of a woefully distended subtitle). Guy's like the Ridley Scott of comedic shapeshifters.
This one's called ACCIDENTES, and it only sounds like a Francis Veber farce. Written by Peter Baynham (who chipped in on BORAT), the film would star Cohen as an ambulance-chasing attorney (of "Latin descent") who becomes a champion of Los Angeles' many exploited immigrants when he wins a huge court case against a deep-pocketed employer. This creates a schism between the richest and poorest citizens of L.A., which, in the end, can only be healed through the re-release of SPANGLISH. It really is a very good movie.
If I sound skeptical, it's just 'cuz I'm cranky from transcribing interviews all day. Cohen's a genius. Whatever he wants to do next is fine by me. Personally, I'd love to see this Judd Apatow-produced Sherlock Holmes movie happen, but only if they can get Ricky Gervais to play Moriarty (although David Thewlis would be wonderful, too).
In case you're wondering, ACCIDENTES is set up at Fox Atomic with Cohen producing. Also, I really do like SPANGLISH.
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Reader Talkback
Why is Cohen a genius? by Xiphos_2 | Jul 22nd, 2008 01:47:11 AM | Hmmmm by Jubba | Jul 22nd, 2008 01:47:23 AM | THIRD! by tuan69 | Jul 22nd, 2008 01:48:04 AM | something about the word
embiggened by IKnowStuff | Jul 22nd, 2008 01:48:28 AM | yes, Ricky Gervais in a Judd
Apatow thing by Amy Chasing | Jul 22nd, 2008 01:57:10 AM | Cohen is a genius... by Clarence Boddicker | Jul 22nd, 2008 02:02:13 AM | Anybody seen Richie? by Motoko Kusanagi | Jul 22nd, 2008 02:34:19 AM | Bruno already has a subtitle by lavatory love machine | Jul 22nd, 2008 02:34:49 AM | Doomsday is one crazy fun
movie by lavatory love machine | Jul 22nd, 2008 02:37:22 AM | He's a genius because he stuck
his face in worst by General Crom | Jul 22nd, 2008 03:20:57 AM | Doesn't 'Bruno' have a
woefully ditended title? by Sepulchrave | Jul 22nd, 2008 03:29:42 AM | Doesn't 'Bruno' HAVE a
woefully distended title? by Sepulchrave | Jul 22nd, 2008 03:29:54 AM | Uh . . . what? by Mullah Omar | Jul 22nd, 2008 03:35:12 AM | Never understood the appeal of
Sacha Baron Cohen, by wowsah156 | Jul 22nd, 2008 03:47:20 AM | Wowsah by barrignite | Jul 22nd, 2008 04:24:37 AM | wowsah156...jealous much? by Conans Sword | Jul 22nd, 2008 04:43:55 AM | Beaks needs to stop
editorializing by Bobo_Vision | Jul 22nd, 2008 05:10:07 AM | Baron Cohen by tomdolan04 | Jul 22nd, 2008 05:26:23 AM | "Guy's like the Ridley Scott
of comedic shapeshifters." by Drunken Rage | Jul 22nd, 2008 07:49:58 AM | I don't see the genius thing
either. by kgerm | Jul 22nd, 2008 08:15:04 AM | Conans Sword by slone13 | Jul 22nd, 2008 08:54:47 AM | Seriously Barrignite by Yaw | Jul 22nd, 2008 09:47:57 AM | Oh, and I apologize
Barrignite... by Yaw | Jul 22nd, 2008 09:59:01 AM | But. by Yaw | Jul 22nd, 2008 09:59:37 AM | And it may be the intuitive
intent. Just don't know. by Yaw | Jul 22nd, 2008 10:01:17 AM | First post... by Yaw | Jul 22nd, 2008 10:03:53 AM | I think he is a total cock. by Smashing | Jul 22nd, 2008 11:12:07 AM | "Latin Descent" by scrivener | Jul 22nd, 2008 11:32:27 AM | Latin America. by Yaw | Jul 22nd, 2008 11:48:13 AM | Genius....ummm..yeah....OK by m_prevette | Jul 22nd, 2008 11:51:16 AM | (further elaboration, and me
being less smug) by Yaw | Jul 22nd, 2008 11:51:55 AM | sorry, beaks. by HorseTranquilizer | Jul 22nd, 2008 12:38:10 PM | Juno, Bruno, what's next..? by Aeghast | Jul 22nd, 2008 01:10:38 PM | Based on an actual person. by Cider Mouse Rules | Jul 22nd, 2008 02:02:24 PM | And then we all Yawn at once. by debrislide | Jul 22nd, 2008 03:08:33 PM | Yaw by barrignite | Jul 22nd, 2008 04:13:19 PM | My clinical nature: I grew up
in the South (a Blues Singer
and by Yaw | Jul 22nd, 2008 06:49:31 PM | Oh, I'm not a Blues Singer... by Yaw | Jul 22nd, 2008 06:55:15 PM | Pretty baby? by barrignite | Jul 23rd, 2008 04:32:58 AM | There's bad taste, then
there's Cohen by NiceGuyEddie19 | Jul 23rd, 2008 10:21:32 AM |
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