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Soderbergh plans double Che Guevara biopic

Tue 31 Oct 4:30 PM

Steven Soderbergh has always wanted to direct a biopic about Che Guevara - and now he's compensating for the wait by planning not just one movie, but two.

The Traffic director will shoot two movies about the life of the iconic Argentine-born revolutionary. In addition to Guerrilla, which was announced earlier this year, Soderbergh will make another film called The Argentine, reported Variety.

Benicio Del Toro will play Guevara in both movies. Javier Bardem, Franka Potente and Benjamin Bratt are in talks to play key roles.

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 beginning with Guevara's trip to the UN headquarters in New York in 1964, until his death in the Bolivian mountains in 1967.

Soderbergh will shoot Guerrilla and The Argentine back to back, with most of the dialogue in Spanish.