Contributed by Rodrigo Perez
Chronologically speaking, there’s a reason why uber-prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh started grappling with the idea of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara right after the time he finished “Erin Brokovich” in 2000.
For one, writing and research on the sprawling 4-hour-plus two-part “Che” took seven years to get just right. Secondly, when he agreed to inherit the movie from legendary director Terrence Malick, Soderbergh felt he was firing on all cylinders and at the top of his game, so he felt now was the time to take on such a an epic beast.
“Part of my reasoning for saying yes [to the ‘Che’ project] was that I had just come off making ‘Erin Brokovich’ with Julia Roberts nad had the sensation that: ‘This was the right movie, the right actor, the right time.’ Everything had lined up,” he told MTV News remembering the era fondly. Read More...
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