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Booyakasha! Sacha Baron Cohen has completed a new Ali G movie

Report says new film has finished filming – although title and release date not yet confirmed Twenty-four years after Staines’s foremost political interlocutor was last seen on the big screen in Ali G Indahouse, Ali G is set to return to cinemas. As reported by The InSneider, a new movie has wrapped production, with filming locations including Oxfordshire, where Baron Cohen was spotted in character last summer, and in the US. A title and release date have not been confirmed and representatives for the star declined to comment. A return for the character was first rumoured in 2023, but the project was reportedly delayed by the series of writers’ and actors’ strikes in the US. Ali G, a shellsuit wearing naïf who energetically culturally appropriates as part of the west Staines massiv, first appeared on Channel 4’s The 11 O’Clock show in 1998 as the “voice of da yoof”, before the broadcaster gave him his own show in the early 2000s. Although Baron Cohen declared both Ali G and Borat – his Kazakh TV presenter and the star of a highly successful 2006 film – retired in 2007, both have returned. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm was released in 2020, while there were appearances by Ali G at the

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