Del Toro to play Che Guevara [Archive]

mrhaines

07-20-2007, 06:14 PM

Benicio del Toro will play Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara in a film directed by Steve Soderbergh, the film's production company said Thursday

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070720/del_toro_che_070720/20070720?hub=Entertainment

lavahot

07-20-2007, 08:45 PM

Benicio del Toro will play Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara in a film directed by Steve Soderbergh, the film's production company said Thursday

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070720/del_toro_che_070720/20070720?hub=Entertainment

I wish I knew who any of those people were.

mrhaines

11-16-2007, 06:04 AM

Really? Che was one of the revolutionaries who helped Castro turn Cuba to Communism. I'll let you google the others...

popltree2

11-16-2007, 07:00 AM

Really? Che was one of the revolutionaries who helped Castro turn Cuba to Communism. I'll let you google the others...

Didn't Che ultimately end up turning on Castro in the end?

GoNZooo

11-16-2007, 10:49 AM

Didn't Che ultimately end up turning on Castro in the end?

Guevara ended up being skeptical to Cuba's relationship with the Soviet, and his approval of chinese communism didn't do any good for Castro's relationship with them [the Soviet].

When Guevara left Cuba and resigned from all his posts Castro didn't say a public bad word about him, and I don't think there was any bad blood on the part of Guevara either.

Grazz

11-16-2007, 07:24 PM

Castro kind of washed his hands of Che towards the end. It's been awhile since I've looked at che so I'm not going to speak on the facts but google video has a few documentaries on him if you're interested and wikipedia is a wonderful thing.

Oh and Btw, Che was a F'ing psychopath

GoNZooo

11-17-2007, 12:17 AM

Oh and Btw, Che was a F'ing psychopath
Yeah, obviously; the guy personally handled the execution of hundreds of people. He was known to be a brutal son of a ***** with no sympathy for "the enemy".

MaxTheSilent

11-17-2007, 07:38 AM

Well this was known about 2 years go. In fact, I'm amazed that with Sodernergh's production rate he hasn't already shot these movies.

Yes, two movies. Script reviews for GUERRILA and THE ARGENTINE have been up at Latino Review for almost a year.