DreamWorks has hired David Guion and Michael Handelman ("Used Guys", "Fast Track") to work on the script for laffer "Dinner With Schmucks" reports Variety.
A remake of French hit "Le Diner de cons", Sacha Baron Cohen ("Borat", "Talladega Nights") has been eyeing to star in the film for several years.
The original film has Paris publisher urges his friends to invite the most pathetic people possible to his weekly dinner party.
In the English-language remake, Cohen would play a guest so full of "schmuckiness" that he ruins the lives of anyone who comes into his orbit.
