Borat teams with Curb Your Enthusiasm writers for next film

Sacha Barton Cohen is teaming up with writers of Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm to pen his new script about a deposed dictator and goat herder lost in the US. The British comedian just signed a deal where he’ll collect $20 million for his acting services and 20% of the film’s profit. A deal that could possibly net the actor over $80 million when all is set and done.

Paramount reportedly sealed the deal by sending a real live goat dressed in a studio T-shirt to Baron Cohen’s LA home, after offering him a “20-20″ deal. A rare phenomenon in an increasingly straitened Hollywood, this would give him $20m (£13m) upfront and an initial 20% share of the new film’s gross, rising to 30% if the movie is successful.

While Bruno wasn’t that great of a movie, but I can see why you’d spend the money in a case like this. Borat and Bruno have combined to rake in over $400 million worldwide. You have a talented actor, great writers and millions of reasons to make it funny. Barton Cohen was pretty (unappreciated) funny in Talladega Nights and when you start to throw out Coming to America comparisons…

I hate to jinx it, but it sounds like a can’t miss premise. Which must be the reason that Paramount bought the film and sent the actor a goat in a dressed in a studio shirt as a token of their appreciation. No word on whether the goat will have a starring role in the movie, but you can fully expect a Will Ferrell in a beard cameo. I mean that’s a given at this point, right?

Paramount gets Sacha Baron Cohen’s $20m goat [Guardian UK]

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