Sacha Baron Cohen will star in a movie version of the 2000 novel supposedly written by Sadam Hussein–or ghostwriters working under his direction–published as ZABIBAH AND THE KING. The Cohen version, filmed by Borat director Larry Charles for Paramount, will be retitled The Dictator. As the Guardian recounts: “The book charts the chaste love affair between a medieval monarch and the soulful Zabibah, who lives unhappily with her abusive husband. But what appears, at first glance, to be a sweet, simple folk tale actually contains pools of hidden meaning. It was intended to be read as an allegory for Iraq […]
