Sacha Baron Cohen
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Baron Cohen is set to earn some $6 million for appearing in The Trial of the Chicago Seven, a project Steven Spielberg is developing for DreamWorks, London's Sunday Times reports.
The Spielberg picture is about the anti-Vietnam-war protest at the 1968 Democrat party convention that transformed the event into a riot.
Hoffman, who once showered the New York Stock Exchange with fake money, was later diagnosed with a bipolar disorder and committed suicide by overdose.
The movie is said to be closer in spirit to the director's Munich than the Indiana Jones frolic due at the multiplexes this May. But fans of Cohen's comedic antics shouldn't worry. He has already signed up to bring a his Bruno character – a camp Austrian fashion show presenter – to the big screen.
