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<p>Controversial comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is to play a dictator &#8211; in a film adaptation of a book by Saddam Hussein.</p>
<p>The Borat star will co-write and star in The Dictator, based on Zabibah And The King, a romance novel the CIA believes was written by ghost-writers under the influence of former Iraqi dictator Saddam and published under his name.</p>
<p>Film-makers say it tells the &#8220;heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed&#8221;.</p>
<p>The comedy is due to be released worldwide on May 11, 2012 by Paramount Pictures.</p>
<p>The studio has announced that Borat and Bruno director Larry Charles has joined the project as director.</p>
<p>Sacha will co-write the screenplay with Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel &#8211; the team behind hit US comedies Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm.</p>
<p>The Ali G star and the writing team will also co-produce the film with Scott Rudin, producer of the award-winning drama The Social Network.</p>
<p>Rumours have previously circulated that Sacha was to star as a foreign dictator and a goat herder in his next film project.</p>
<p>It was claimed that studios began a bidding war for the production rights to the Oscar-nominated star&#8217;s next film and Paramount were rumoured to have won him round by sending live goats to his office.</p>
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