HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- DreamWorks has figured out how to do a Hollywood remake of Francis Veber's French comic hit. "Le Diner de Cons" ("The Idiot Game").
Daily Variety reports the studio has retitled the film "Dinner for Schmucks" and set a place at the head of the table for Sacha Baron Cohen -- the star of HBO's "Da Ali G Show."
The French film focused on a weekly dinner party held by a Paris publisher who challenged his friends to bring the most pathetic guest to the gathering. In the new version, Cohen will play a character deemed to possess such "extraordinary schmuckiness" that he is capable of ruining the life of anyone who spends more than a few minutes in his orbit.
The picture will provide Cohen a showcase to unveil a variety of new characters like the ones he employs in his HBO series.
