Sacha Baron Cohen (
Borat) is to star in the comedy
Dinner With Schmucks a remake of French hit "Le Diner de cons," according to Variety.
In the Gallic pic, a Paris publisher urges his friends to invite the most pathetic people possible to his weekly dinner party. In the English-language remake, Cohen would play a guest so full of "schmuckiness" that he ruins the lives of anyone who comes into his orbit.