As if his portrayals of Borat and Bruno weren't outrageous enough, Sacha Baron Cohen's next role will be playing Saddam Hussein.
The British comic will star in and co-write The Dictator, which is scheduled for release in May 2012, Paramount Pictures said Thursday.
Larry Charles, who directed Baron Cohen in Bruno and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, will direct once again.
The Dictator is inspired by a book the former Iraqi leader himself wrote, titled Zabibah and The King.
Paramount joked in a news release: "The film tells the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed."