After his latest effort with the Che Guevara biopic staring Benicio Del Toro, it appears that director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean's Eleven) is in the initial stages of another ambitious biopic, Liberace! According to Variety, actor Michael Douglas is already in place to star as the film's titular flamboyant pianist, while Matt Damon is apparently in talks to play Scott Thorson, who sued Liberace in the early eighties, claiming to have been his former partner.
Soderbergh's Che Guevara biopic recently debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival as a four hour piece entitled Che, where it was picked up by IFC films. In order to qualify for a potential Oscar nomination, IFC will present Che in its entirety for a one-week run in New York and Los Angeles. This will be followed with a wider release of Che Part One (The Argentine) in January, while Part Two (The Guerilla) will be held until after Oscar nomination announcements.
Del Toro as Guevara
