Steven Soderbergh is moving forward on his oft-delayed Che Guevara biopic. According to Variety, the Oscar-winning filmmaker plans on making a pair of projects back-to-back featuring Benicio Del Toro as the iconic South American revolutionary. Javier Bardem, Franka Potente and Benjamin Bratt are in talks to co-star in the films written by Peter Buchman and financed by France's Wild Bunch. Soderbergh will shoot both films predominantly in Spanish starting with the The Argentine, which focuses on Che's involvement with Fidel Castro to over throw Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista in the late '50s. The next film, Guerrilla, follows Guevara's journey to the New York, where he addressed the United Nations in 1964. Scenes featuring Del Toro and Julia Ormond as a U.S. journalist interviewing him have already been shot. Principle photography in Mexico and other South American locations are expected to begin in May 2006. Sodergergh's new film, The Good German, opens December 25.
- 10/31/2006
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