A sentence I never thought I’d be writing in 2020, a sequel to Sacha Baron Cohen’s blockbuster 2006 comedy Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has been shot and screened “for a select few industry types,”
The news first reported by Collider’s Jeff Sneider’s source states the plot of the upcoming sequel will find Cohen’s Kazakh journalist, “thinking he’s a big movie star after the success of the original 2006 film made him famous, so he’s trying to hide from the public by pretending to be someone else, and starts meeting and interviewing people incognito.”
The rumors regarding the sequel began to take shape near the end of August when a viral Tik Tok video of Cohen dressed in character as Borat speeding down the highway starting making the rounds on social media.
Borat was not only a box office winner in 2006, grossing over $260 million worldwide, but Cohen won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, and the film went on to land an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 79th Academy Awards.
