It seems like Sacha Baron Cohen is pulling out all the stops for his upcoming Bruno movie, as he got into trouble once more following a near-arrest last week in Milan for storming a fashion show runway.
This time he invaded the Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s show in Paris on Friday, unsuccessfully trying to hand a note to models parading down the runway. He then proceeded to jump on the catwalk and run to the curtain looking behind to hunt for the designer. Cohen was grabbed by a security guard who then threw him out of the show.
This, along with other stunts, was in aid of the upcoming comedy Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making a Heterosexual Male. It opens in theaters May 2009.
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Film company face-offs are not that uncommon. Last year there was the battle of the animated rats, Flushed Away (Dreamworks) and Ratatouille (Pixar/Disney), with the latter obviously winning. There was also the battle of large objects crashing into earth movies, with Armageddon and Deep Impact both released around the same time (whoever won, we lost). And it seems next year will see another face-off: the battle of the Sherlock Holmes movies.
Today the Hollywood Reporter announced that Robert “Iron Man” Downey Jnr has signed on to play Holmes in Guy Ritchie’s version of the movie. Last week saw the announcement of the first Sherlock Holmes revival, starring Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen playing Holmes with Will Ferrell as Watson. The films will have differing takes on the traditional sleuth. While Ritchie’s film is based on a comic, and explores the more adventurous side of Holmes, Cohen’s Holmes will be playing for laughs.
So who will win? Well, after the hideous Swept Away and dull Revolver, I can’t help but feel that Ritchie is irredeemable. Sure, Downey Jnr is as hot as lava after the huge success of the entertaining Iron Man, but let’s not forget that he’s had more misses than hits in the past. My money is on the comic version. Since Borat Cohen is on a career high, and Ferrell will be an appealing support. Plus, the character of Holmes is so familiar, and the detective genre so exhausted, that it will be hard for a modern audience to take Holmes seriously. Indeed, a Holmes comedy was already made, Without a Clue, starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley, and while the premise was amusing (Holmes was a moronic poster-boy for Watson’s true brilliance), the delivery was sub-par. Let’s hope that Cohen and Ferrell can come up with a better film.
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Baron Cohen is known for his crazy antics in Borat, but just how far is he willing to go for Bruno, his upcoming comedy about a gay European model in the States?
The Sun reports that he managed to bring together a former Israeli spy and a Palestinian academic into an interesting sketch. He was granted an interview with the pair in Jerusalem’s Old City under the guise of a youth documentary.
Cohen posed questions and various ridiculous statements about the Arab-Israeli conflict such as "Why didn’t you settle the conflict with a time share on the land?", "When will you Jews return the pyramids?" and finally "Your conflict is not so bad. Jennifer-Angelina is worse."
The film opens May 15, 2009.
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Sherlock Holmes is set to roll as an untitled comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen as the master detective Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Dr. Watson, Holmes crime-solving partner.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes Tales” inspire the comedy, though, with a different thrust.
Apparently, this isn’t the only Holmes film. A second major studio project featuring the famous sleuth, at Warner Bros. is prepping Sherlock Holmes with director Guy Ritchie.
Holmescomedy reteams Baron Cohen and Ferrell, who played rival race car drivers in the 2006 hit comedy Talladega Nights.
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