Paramount gets Sacha Baron Cohen's $20m goat

It's the quirky tale of a British comic, a Hollywood studio and a rare $20 million (Dh73,441 million) offer to shoot a new movie. Oh, and don't forget the goat.

According to the Deadline blog, Sacha Baron Cohen's next movie has been snapped up by Paramount in a lucrative deal which instantly catapults him into the ranks of Hollywood's biggest stars. It will see the comedian play the dual roles of a goat herder and a deposed foreign dictator who finds himself lost in the US. Paramount reportedly sealed the deal by sending a real live goat dressed in a studio T-shirt to Baron Cohen's LA home.