By Mike Fleming Jr, Matt Grobar

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has cast Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike in Ladies First, a comedy directed by Thea Sharrock that is loosely inspired by the Eleonore Pourriat-directed French film Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile.

Pic is written by Katie Silberman (Booksmart) and Natalie Krinsky (The Broken Hearts Gallery). Baron Cohen plays an incorrigible, womanizing chauvinist who finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women. A fiery female counterpart (Pike) makes things worse even more complicated.

Ladies First is produced by Liza Chasin of 3dot, under her creative partnership with Netflix, where she mixed the Laura Dern-starrer Lonely Plane and Sofia Carson-starrer The Life List. Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette and Four By Two Films are also producing. .