<p><br /> Sacha Baron Cohen is set to play Saddam Hussein in a new movie.<br /> </p><p><br /> The Bruno and Ali G comic will star in and co-write The Dictator, inspired by a book the former Iraqi leader wrote called Zabibah And The King.<br /> </p><p><br /> The movie, due for released in May 2012, will be directed by Larry Charles who worked with Sacha on films Bruno and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.<br /> </p><p><br /> Paramount Pictures, the film company making the film, said: "The film tells the heroic story of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed."<br /> </p><p><br /> Zabibah and the King was written under the pseudonym 'The Author', but it is believed it was written by ghost-writers carefully supervised by Hussein.<br /> </p>
