10 Announced Movies That Mysteriously Disappeared

Borat may have received an official sequel in October 2020, but did you know that an unofficial sequel to the smash-hit comedy was in the works over a decade ago?

Upset with the way that Kazakh people were portrayed in Sacha Baron Cohen's uproarious satire, filmmaker Erkin Rakishev set out to make a movie that displayed his country in a more positive light.

To that end, he came up with My Brother, Borat, which would follow an American man who decides to visit Kazakhstan after watching the original Borat. Upon arrival, he attempts to seek out Borat's run-down village from the movie, but is surprised when he discovers a modern, well-developed city instead.

For obvious reasons, My Brother, Borat received a ton of press at the time of its announcement, and we even got a behind-the-scenes look at Rakishev shooting the movie (see the video below). That would seem to indicate things were moving along quite nicely, and yet, we've heard nary a whisper about the project since 2010.

If we were to speculate? It's possible that Rakishev ran into some legal trouble with Fox. That studio distributed Borat in 2006, and would almost certainly be able to cause some problems for an "unofficial sequel" like this.

Whatever the case, My Brother, Borat never saw the light of day.