Guerrilla (film)

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Guerrilla (film)

Directed by	Steven Soderbergh
Produced by	Steven Soderbergh Peter Buchman Laura Bickford Benicio Del Toro William Pohlad
Written by	Federico Lara ViCaDi
Starring	Benicio Del Toro Javier Bardem Benjamin Bratt Ryan Gosling Franka Potente
Distributed by	Focus Features
Language	English
IMDb profile

Guerrilla is a 2007 biopic about Argentinean-born doctor and revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967), most famous for leading Fidel Castro's forces against Batista. After his work in Cuba, Che moved on to other causes in Africa and Latin America, eventually being captured and executed by counter-insurgency rangers in the mountains of Bolivia.

The film will not be released in late 2006 as previously planned (making it ineligible for the 79th Academy Awards) but instead the film will have an early 2007 release.

According to an October 2006 article in Variety magazine, it was announced that Soderbergh plans to make two films about Che with the other called The Argentine. According to the article, "The Argentine will focus on the Cuban revolution, from the moment Fidel Castro, Guevara and other revolutionaries landed on the Caribbean island, until they toppled the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista two years later. Guerrilla will focus on the years following the Cuban revolution. It will begin with Che's trip to the UN headquarters in New York in 1964, until his death in the Bolivian mountains in 1967."

Soderbergh will shoot both films back to back with most of the dialogue in Spanish. Benicio Del Toro will play Che in both movies. Javier Bardem, Franka Potente and Benjamin Bratt are in talks to play key roles.

Early reports state that Soderbergh has already shot most of the opening footage with Del Toro and Julia Ormond. She plays a television journalist acting as an informal intermediary between John F. Kennedy's White House and Cuba.

In addition, Soderbergh has also shot a documentary while researching both films, with interviews with many who fought alongside Che in Cuba and Bolivia.

[edit] Principal supporting cast

Benicio Del Toro .... Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna
Yul Vazquez .... Alejandro
René Lavan .... Miguel
Doug Aguirre .... Cuban Refugee
Ed Avila .... Elevator Man
Javier Bardem
Benjamín Benítez
Io Bottoms .... Make-up Woman
Benjamin Bratt .... Fidel Castro
Monique Curnen .... Secretary
Michael Devine
Jon DeVries
Rafael Fuentes .... U.N. Protestor
Meg Gibson
Octavio Gómez
Frank Harts
Oscar Isaac
Robert C. Kirk .... Cop
Leslie Lyles
Rob Macie .... Frail investigator
Alex Manette
Rebecca Merle .... UN Diplomat/Protester
Matthew Moeini .... U.N. Staff
Elvis Nolasco
Rich Odell .... Cuban Mission staff
Julia Ormond .... Lani DuVane (attached)
Francesco Paladino .... Protest leader
Gloria Parks .... United Nations Secretary
Franka Potente .... Tamara Bunke
Paul Vasquez
Anthony Veneziale .... Chris Koch

[edit] Trivia

Film director Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line) wrote a screenplay for the film, but later relinquished the project to Steven Soderbergh. He filmed The New World instead.

Steven Soderbergh won the Academy Award for Directing Traffic in 2000. Del Toro won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same film.

[edit] External links

Guerrilla at the Internet Movie Database

Films by Steven Soderbergh
sex, lies, and videotape (1989) \| Kafka (1991) \| King of the Hill (1993) \| Underneath (1995) \| Gray's Anatomy (1996) \| Schizopolis (1996) \| Out of Sight (1998) \| The Limey (1999) \| Erin Brockovich (2000) \| Traffic (2000) \| Ocean's Eleven (2001) \| Full Frontal (2002) \| Solaris (2002) \| Eros (Equilibrium) (2004) \| Ocean's Twelve (2004) \| Bubble (2006) \| The Good German (2006) \| Guerrilla (2007) \| Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

Films by Steven Soderbergh