Out doing promotions for "Bubble", Director Steven Soderbergh spoke with Coming Soon about two projects in his future - the third "Ocean's Eleven" flick along with his Che Guevera biopic.
in regards to why are they doing another 'Ocean'? "Both the second one and this one were generated by me saying that I want to do another one. Certainly, nobody's asking for this one. I just had another idea and went to everybody, and everybody said 'Fine'. I checked with them before we even got started, just to make sure. I said that I had an idea and I want to go back, but I'm not doing it unless everybody is on board"
As for "Che", Soderbergh says "We're still working on the script. I'm working with a writer. I was on initially, then Terry Malick came on for a while, and then he left and I came back on. It's something that Laura Bickford, who produced 'Traffic,' and Benicio [Del Toro] and I have been talking about since 'Traffic,' and we're just now starting to get close, I think, to having the script the way we want".
Indeed Guevera's life is a rich and complicated subject matter, what aspects are they focussing on? "When Terry was working on the movie, it was only about Bolivia, but our movie is about Cuba and Bolivia, basically, it's a war movie. There may be some stuff from [Malick's production] that will survive. We're actually shooting six days in New York this month, which we're then going to hold, and then the rest of the film will be shot next year. The sequence we're shooting now is when he came to New York and spoke at the U.N. in December of '64. I guess the U.N. is going to be refurbished, and we've gotta get in there before they do"
For the full interview, click here.
