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 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 Fulgencio 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.

According to the official Soderbergh website, the release should happen in 2008 but the exact date is yet to be confirmed.

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 over a 90-day period beginning in May 2007 with most of the dialogue in Spanish. According to an interview in Sight and Sound magazine, the first film "will be shot in 16mm anamorphic" and "The second is in Super-16, 1.85:1. No dollies, no cranes, it's all either handheld or tripods. I want it to look nice but simple. We'll work with a very small group: basically me, the producer Gregory Jacobs and the unit production manager." 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] 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 link

• 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)

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