Last month, several social media posts popped up showing actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen back in character as reporter Borat Sagdiyev for filming of a brief sequence on a Californian highway for something.
At the time it wasn’t clear what it was for, with speculation being that it was for an episode of another season of his Showtime political satire series “Who is America?”.
Now Collider has broken the news today that the scene in fact was likely for a “Borat” sequel, and certainly a “full-fledged feature” that has not only been shot but has already screened for a select few industry types.
The site says the new film gets meta with Borat thinking he’s a big movie star after the success of the original 2006 film. As a result he’s trying to hide from the public by pretending to be someone else, and starts meeting/interviewing people incognito. A source dubs it: “Cohen playing Borat playing Cohen.”
20th Century Fox released the first film which grossed $262 million worldwide, but Disney is unlikely to be footing the bill for a new R-rated comedy and the Borat character is pre-existing IP created by Cohen which means he most likely retains the rights to the character and can take it where he wants.
It’s also not clear if the 2006 film’s director Larry Charles and producer Jay Roach are also involved, though the site indicates the best guess right now is Cohen has a deal with a streaming service and the film could be released prior to the upcoming U.S. Presidential election.
