The *Upcoming* Che movie

[PhillyReds]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374569/


Has anyone heard updates/news/information on this? They're having Benicio del Toro play Che. I would prefer Johnny Depp, personally.

http://www.creamystar.com/actor%5Cbenicio_del_toro/benicio_del_toro_01.jpg

http://www.malesuperstars.com/featured/Johnny_Depp/Johnny_Depp020.jpg

HOWEVER, if they used Depp then it would turn into a "Johnny Depp movie", where girls cream their pants at the sight of him wearing a turtleneck, let alone with his shirt off. So its probably for best that a non-male-superstar is playing Che...plus he's actually Hispanic :D

[Dyst]

Actually I think del Toro is more fitting. This is supposed to be about the "old" Che (he was never old, but you get my point.)

However I feel the need to state that both Depp and del Toro are male actors. ;)

[The Grey Blur]

Benicio Del Toro looks nothing like Che

[Janus]

There's already a thread about this in the Che Guevara forum where we have constantly argued the similarity issue between Benicio and Che.

[bolshevik butcher]

Who cares. It's just another che cash-in. Lenin was right in the introduction to state and the revolution. A revolutionary is shunned in his life time and then the capitalist class tries to turn him into a harmless icon after it.

[Sanjee]

The girls were crazy about Che, and the girls are crazy about Johnny Depp. So that's allready simmilar.

[chimx]

they should get tom cruise.

[Janus]

they should get tom cruise.
:lol: :lol: .


Who cares. It's just another che cash-in
Hopefully it'll get more people interested in Che and then in leftist ideas. Just maybe.

[Forward Union]

Moved

[Janus]

See these threads for a discussion about the movie Guerrilla.

Thread 1 (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=49019)

Thread 2 (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=45674)

I think we should sticky a discussion about both movies as theres a new thread just about every other week.

[Tanya]

Benicio del Toro interview (14/9/2005)

''La vamos a hacer, se está reescribiendo y ahora la va a dirigir Steven Soderbergh. Decidimos que era imposible reducir toda su vida por espacio de un par de horas, así que nos vamos a centrar en el último año de su vida. No es fácil de financiar una película sobre el Che Guevara en los Estados Unidos. Allí se preguntan por qué hacerla. Lo importante es mantenerse, atenerse a la verdad del personaje.''

translation: (excuse to me if it is not grammar corrected)

''We are going it to do, it is being rewritten and now it is going to direct it Steven Soderbergh. We decided that it was impossible to reduce all its life by space of a pair of hours, so we are going away to center year of its life in the last. It is not easy to finance a film on the Che Guevara in the United States. There they are wondered why to do it. The important thing is to stay, to rely on the truth of the personage.''

:) :D

[KickMcCann]

Actually I think Johnny Depp would play a convincing trotsky:

http://cdn.compuserve.com/gallery/i/d/depp/JohnnyDepp_Mayer_4341135.jpg

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/photo/lt.jpg


with a little work, lol :lol:

[bezdomni]

:lol:

I have that picture on my school binder. It's a sticker from the WIL that says "Just say no to capitalism".

Depp can play anybody.

[Disciple of Prometheus]

I think Johnny Depp would make a much better Che' because he kind of just molds into roles, because in every movie he has been in, the characters seem like characters not actors, playing a certain character.

Plus he is uber hot, so you know that is always a plus. :D .

I just hope they don't completely destroy who Che' the man really was, with the typical Hollywood bull crap.

[Sanjee]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2006, 01:57 AM
Actually I think Johnny Depp would play a convincing trotsky:

http://cdn.compuserve.com/gallery/i/d/depp/JohnnyDepp_Mayer_4341135.jpg

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/photo/lt.jpg


with a little work, lol :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Vladislav]

:lol: Good call. The Depp and Trotsky one.

[mscommieparty]

the way they can bulllshit edit that, ludacris could play trotsky, then they would do something stupid like have eminem play lenin and 50 cent is marx. nut then the movie wouldn't be about communism, it would be about vodka

[SSVegeta184]

does anyone know the link to a trailer of this movie? I remember seeing somewhere a trailer of it on on a site with the url of something like "chethemovie.com"...but it's not up anymore.

[Janus]

I don't think the trailers are out yet as this movie isn't due out for a while.

[Big Boss]

Hey guys!, I found the poster for the movie at the wikipedia enciclopedia website! :D
If you want, you can check the site for more info.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Guerrilla_Movie_Poster.jpg

[Janus]

Did they move it back? Wasn't the original release date Fall of 2006?

[jchecking]

Liam Neeson would have made a great Fidel.
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/uno1/per-004131.jpg
http://www.houseofwaterdancer.com/images/world-leaders/castro-fidel/castro-fidel-01.JPG
:castro:

[Cloud]

Lets hope people decide to read after veiwing this movie. The movie will be insightful...but hopefully people dont become "cinematized".

[Janus]

Yeah. We had already decided on that. Movies will be a good introduction assuming that it represents Che accurately but it won't be much more than that.

[Tanya]

''El Che ser un hèroe umano''
Afirma Benicio del Toro

Benicio del Toro, quien busca financiamiento para hacer una cinta sobre Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, dijo que el líder guerrilero es un héroe humano

14/01/2004
Notimex.-(Buenos Aires).- El actor estadounidense Benicio del Toro explicó a la prensa argentina que sigue en la búsqueda de financiamiento para hacer una película sobre el líder guerrillero Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a quien considera "un héroe humano".

En entrevista con el diario Clarín, Del Toro explicó que el "Che" fue un hombre "en el significado más profundo de la palabra hombre. Es difícil decir qué significa para mí, he pensado en esto desde hace mucho tiempo".

Agregó que "siempre llego a la misma conclusión: el "Che" fue un héroe humano. No sé cuánta gente entiende lo que quiero decir, pero Terry (Malick, el cineasta que dirigirá la película) lo hará".

Del Toro señaló que el guerrillero argentino que hizo la Revolución en Cuba junto con Fidel Castro es un producto de la cultura de los 60 porque "si lo sacas de esa década, todo sería muy diferente. Es el producto de una generación".

Pese al símbolo en el que se convirtió, agregó, el "Che" también era un ser humano y por eso es importante mostrarlo en todas sus dimensiones.

"Puedes hacerlo como héroe o como villano, pero no tengo dudas de que siento un gran respeto por él y por lo que peleó. Fue un defensor de la gente común", aseveró.

Del Toro, ganador del Oscar al mejor actor de reparto en 2001, compró desde hace años los derechos de A Revolutionary Life, biografía sobre el "Che" escrita por el periodista estadounidense Jon Lee Anderson, pero es hasta ahora que el proyecto se reactivó.

Explicó que ello se debe a que "estamos buscando dinero. Es lo más difícil de todo en este negocio. Es una película muy cara. Me gustaría que el cine fuese como la pintura, pero no lo es. Es una inversión: te dan dinero y lo quieren de vuelta".

Aunque no dio cifras, aseguró que la película no será tan cara pero que "el tiempo de la gente cuesta. Es una película con muchas armas, uno quiere que sea fiel a la época. Queremos hacerla bien y que nos ayuden. Ojalá se pudiera hacer gratis".



(Benicio del Toro says that Che Guevara is '' a human hero '' and respect a lot him because he is the defender of the people. (the interview is of 2004)

:)

[Le Libérer]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2006, 02:16 AM
Liam Neeson would have made a great Fidel.
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/uno1/per-004131.jpg
http://www.houseofwaterdancer.com/images/world-leaders/castro-fidel/castro-fidel-01.JPG
:castro:
wow good call there, J. I would have never put those 2 together.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Yeah. We had already decided on that. Movies will be a good introduction assuming that it represents Che accurately but it won't be much more than that.

It wouldn't be that bad if hollywood paints him as a saint, on the other hand if they turn him into a devil, it would be bad.

[DORRI]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2006, 12:58 AM
they should get tom cruise.
:o oh, no, please! for god's sake!

[SSVegeta184]

well, it seems as if I just forgot what the URL was to the trailer, and all of a sudden remembered it now. here it is: http://thechemovie.com/ , i'm not sure if this is the movie "Guerrilla" with Benicio Del Toro because the Che in that trailer does not look like Del Toro to me..what do you guys think?

[OneBrickOneVoice]

That was really depressing. I think it was the music.

[The Grey Blur]

If I've said it once I've said it a million times...

Benicio Del Toro looks nothing like Che Guevara

[Tanya]

http://www.terra.com.mx/Galeria_de_fotos/images/98/195876.jpg
Benicio del Toro, 2005

[Tanya]

http://thechemovie.com/
Che Guevara (2005)
Directed by Josh Evans
Country:USA
Language:English
Cast: Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara : Eduardo Noriega


http://crazy.imdb.com/title/tt0446667



http://crazy.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0125659/S...0Eduardo%20(II) (http://crazy.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0125659/Ss/0125659/1-3.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Noriega,%20Eduardo%20(II))

http://crazy.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0125659/1...do%20(II)&seq=2 (http://crazy.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0125659/1-4.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Noriega,%20Eduardo%20(II)&seq=2)
Eduardo Noriega

:)

[SSVegeta184]

Originally posted by [email protected] 22 2006, 05:35 AM

http://thechemovie.com/
Che Guevara (2005)
Directed by Josh Evans
Country:USA
Language:English
Cast: Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara : Eduardo Noriega


http://crazy.imdb.com/title/tt0446667



http://crazy.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0125659/S...0Eduardo%20(II) (http://crazy.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0125659/Ss/0125659/1-3.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Noriega,%20Eduardo%20(II))

http://crazy.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0125659/1...do%20(II)&seq=2 (http://crazy.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0125659/1-4.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Noriega,%20Eduardo%20(II)&seq=2)
Eduardo Noriega

:)
sweet....I wonder now where I can watch it since it should be out already >_<

[Comrade Yev]

Originally posted by [email protected] 17 2006, 12:04 AM
Did they move it back? Wasn&#39;t the original release date Fall of 2006?
It was pushed back so that the director could work on Oceans 13.

Personally, I think the director needs to get his priorities straight.

[MurderInc]

They&#39;ll just have to add a scene or two with him tearing down the road in his motorcycle to rescue Jennifer Aniston before Dennis Hopper dices her into pieces.

I&#39;m thinking Orlando Bloom and Rosario Dawson, the thing will write itself&#33;