Several plot points surrounding Sasha Baron Cohen's upcoming Borat sequel have been revealed, and it looks like his hapless Kazakh journalist isn't steering clear from controversy.
Yesterday, the full title for the upcoming Borat sequel was been revealed - and it was quite the mouthful.
Fourteen years after Cohen delighted the world (minus a handful of Americans) with his first feature-length mockumentary movie - Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan - the world will soon be gifted with the second installment.
According to The Film Stage, the beautifully titled follow-up movie is titled Borat: Gift Of Pornographic Monkey To Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence To Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation Of Kazakhstan, and now some plot points surrounding the surprise sequel have been leaked.
Per an updated report by The Film Stage, sources have revealed that the movie will focus on President Donald Trump's relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.
The movie will also look at the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, with Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani making cameos.
According to the outlet, the movie has been described as a "meta-story" that will follow Borat Sagdiyev as he attempts to conceal his true identity from the public and pretends to be somebody else.
Rumors about a second Borat movie spread like wildfire on social media when Cohen was spotted in his classic "not-black" suit as he drove around Long Beach in a yellow pickup truck.
Per the Metro, Cohen wrote the upcoming movie alongside Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, and Lee Kern.
Cohen first portrayed the Borat character in 1996, as part of a series of short skits on the short-lived show F2F.
Following the success of his simpleton rapper character Ali-G, Cohen decided to bring the Borat character back as part of the satirical TV series Da Ali G Show between the years of 2000 and 2004.
The first Borat movie grossed $262 million worldwide and even bagged Cohen a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor (Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy). The success of the movie helped pave the way for some of Cohen's subsequent movies, like Bruno, which grossed $138 million, and The Dictator which raked in $179 million.
There were always doubts about whether or not we would see Borat return in a more PC culture, with Cohen telling The Telegraph back in 2016 that "Hollywood would be too scared to make Borat today".
Fortunately, Cohen must have had a change of heart - and we couldn't be happier!
