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Gay Borat sequel to get big bucks
30 Oct 2006- The advance buzz for the
controversial movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, sparked a bidding war last week for the sequel.
Now Universal Studios' has beaten out the competition with a bid of 42.5 million
dollars for the worldwide distribution rights, Variety reported Monday.
The new film will feature British actor Sasha Baron Cohen as the gay fashion
victim Bruno. A supposed Austrian TV reporter, Bruno gets people to say
outrageous things about the fashion world, such as condemning the unstylish to
concentration camps.
The high price came amid a wave of expectation over Cohen's current film, in
which he plays Borat, a supremely politically- incorrect TV reporter from
Kazakhstan whose primitive ways have hilarious and disturbing effects on
Americans.
Cohen will also star in two movies scheduled to appear next year. In the comedy
Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill, he plays a young Hasidic Jew who teams up with an
ageing rocker to form a band.
Another film, Dinner for Schmucks, will see Cohen play an extraordinarily stupid
man who brings chaos to the lives of anyone he encounters.
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