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Sacha Baron Cohen Wages Class Warfare with ACCIDENTES!

Beaks here...

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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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
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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