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British comic Sacha Baron Cohen is to play detective Sherlock Holmes in a spoof movie based on Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary supersleuth, Daily Variety reported Wednesday.

Baron Cohen -- who shot to international stardom as a hapless Kazakh journalist in the hit mockumentary "Borat" -- will team up with Will Ferrell, who is to play Holmes' faithful sidekick, Doctor Watson.

"Just the idea of Sacha and Will as Sherlock Holmes and Watson makes us laugh," said Columbia Pictures co-president Matt Tolmach.

"Sacha and Will are two of the funniest and most talented guys on the planet, and having them take on these two iconic characters is frankly hilarious."