The Argentine Plot

The Argentine is a film about Che Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film is in production, with a possible release date of 2008. According to an October 2006 article in Variety magazine, Soderbergh plans to make two films about Che with the other called Guerrilla. 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. Benicio del Toro will play Che in both movies.