Steven Soderbergh will next director "Guerilla", a biopic about Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara reports Production Weekly.

Born in 1928, Ernesto "Che" Guevara first trained as a doctor before becoming Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant. In 1967, he was captured and executed by Bolivian forces.

Guerilla is set to begin production January 21 in New York, with locations in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Benjamin Bratt is set to play lieutenant to the titular character which Benicio Del Toro is starring as.

Soderbergh will follow that up with "Life Interrupted". based on the unfinished monologue of the late Spalding Gray.