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A film that began as a labor of love for Benicio Del toro and producer Laura Bickford, who started talking to Steven Soderbergh about producing the movie while working on Sodenbergh’s “Traffic”.

Terrence Malick at the time was interested to do the project and began developing ideas for the film. So finally after all the pain stacking research Steven Soderbergh agreed to direct the movie.

The filmmaker tried his level best to create some sort of coherence in all the writing for the film. He wrote the script with Pether Buchman but it never really jelled into one single movie. Sodenbergh finally decided the only solution was to vreak the film into two parts. “When we started, it was going to be one two-hour movie about Bolivia,” he says. “But when we got further into development, Bolivia without the context of Cuba didn’t make a lot of sense.”

The decision to shoot in Spanish — a language Soderbergh does not speak — with actors from Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Spain, Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina, Puerto Rico and Brazil also sent Wild Bunch scrambling to partners in foreign territories to renegotiate all the deals.

“Wild Bunch stayed with us through thick and thin,” explains Bickford, “as we went from one movie in English to two movies in Spanish.”

So right now the director is gearing up for the screening of the film at the upcoming New York Film Festival. So this is surely going to be a test for the film.