Rupert Murdoch Says There Will Be Borat Sequel!
Filed under: Comedy, 20th Century Fox, Remakes and Sequels
One of the first things that new Borat fans talked about as they were walking out of the theater had to be: "I wonder if they'll make a sequel," and that probably led to the next logical question: "I wonder how they could make a sequel!" I mean, Borat's been pretty much everywhere for the past few months, which will make it a whole lot tougher to find unsuspecting people who don't recognize the character -- and if people actually recognize Borat, then there goes the joke right there.But that's not stopping Fox from moving forward with a sequel. In a recent article in Financial Times (as mentioned at ComingSoon.net), Rupert Murdoch mentioned that after Sacha Baron Cohen does his Bruno movie for Universal, he'll be coming back to Fox to do Borat 2. Why isn't Cohen doing Bruno with Fox? Rupert says it's because Fox was unwilling to bid on a screenplay sight unseen, whereas Universal obviously was. No word yet on what direction the Borat sequel will take (hey, maybe he can visit North Korea; I doubt they know Borat out there), but considering the first flick grossed over $248 million worldwide (off a production budget of $18 million), you just knew this was coming.
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2-08-2007 @ 11:57PM
Spyder said...
Well I hope he can come up with more characters since now Ali G, Borat, and Bruno will all have movies...it reminds me of when Mike Meyers was coming out with movies of all his characters from Waynes World to Austin Powers but had the good mind not to make Sprockets the movie because it didnt really lend itself to be a movie. The Bruno character doesnt really seem to lend itself to be a movie either but here's hoping its more of an Ali G In Da House where its a full fictional movie experience than a Borat half fiction. An hour and half of gay jokes seems a little much but if anyone can make it funny, Cohen is the one to do it.
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2-10-2007 @ 5:27PM
Kevin said...
Cohen shouldn't have too much trouble finding more racist, sexist, ignorant people to poke fun at. The demographic for the movie is the 13-35 year old audience, but the demographic for the prank is generally older. Therefore I would have to assume that the 35 and up crowd has no clue who Borat is. Thank god too, I can't get enough of that character.
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2-22-2007 @ 5:38PM
Bryon said...
Can't wait for Borat 2! Here's an interview I found with 2 of the writers responsible for bringing Sacha Baron Cohen's character to the silver screen! You can listen to Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham here:
http://tinyurl.com/yqehex
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