I don’t read many magazines, watch much tv, listen to much radio or visit many sane websites, so I tend to be out of touch. The rest of you probably already know then about Steven Soderbergh’s project ‘Guerrilla’, starring Benicio Del Toro as Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara de la Serna.

The film will tell how in 1964, Argentine revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara travelled to New York City to address the United Nations.

It had to happen, I mean the physical similarities are so striking somebody had to cast him as Che.

Pity it won’t be completed till 2008.

Update: it seems this film has a rather odd history… not sure exactly but it seems Terrence Malick was supposed to make a film about Che Guevara starring Del Toro, but he pulled out. Then Soderbergh got involved and seemingly split the film into two projects… this one and one called ‘The Argentine‘. Which also stars Javier Bardem. Two films about Guevara for the price of one with excellent actors.