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 Entertainment | November 2005 
New Che Flick to Film in Veracruz
 Wire reports
Veracruz - Oscar-winning actor Benicio del Toro will portray Argentine revolutionary icon Che Guevara in a movie to be shot in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz at the beginning of next year, a government official said this week.
To be titled "Guerrilla," the film will be a biography of Guevara, who played a key role in the victory of Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba, said Ricardo Rodríguez Demenegui, head of cinematography for the regional tourism board based in the central Veracruz city of Orizaba.
Guevara was captured and killed by the Bolivian military in 1967.
The film's producers, whom Rodríguez did not identify, chose the traditional colonial center of the city of Córdoba and the mountainous region of Zongolica because of their "similarity to regions in Bolivia and Cuba," Rodríguez said.
Filming is expected to begin in March 2006 and be completed in about 90 days, Rodríguez said.
Del Toro won a best-supporting-actor Oscar for his role in the movie "Traffic" in 2001. His other recent movies include "Sin City" and "21 Grams."
Last year, actor-director Robert Redford produced "The Motorcycle Diaries," the tale of Guevara's life-changing 1950s journey across South America, starring Mexican actor Gael García Bernal.
Veracruz has been the choice of several filmmakers recently. Three weeks ago, shooting wrapped up near the Veracruz capital of Jalapa on the film "The Fifth Patient," whose cast includes Russell Crowe, said the state's deputy tourism secretary, Gustavo Sousa.
In coming days, Mel Gibson will begin shooting his action-adventure film "Apocalypto" in southern jungle regions of the state. The film will star mostly unknown Mexican actors of Maya origin and feature dialogue in the Mayan tongue of Yucateco. |
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