Springtime for Che?

One of the holiday releases now in theaters is The Producers starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane. It's a remake of the 1968 Mel Brooks comedy classic by the same name. The following is the plot of the original film as described RuinedEndings.com.

Mild-mannered accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) goes to do the accounts of Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel), a failing Broadway producer. When Leo realises that if you were really a dishonest person, you could make more money with a play that flopped than you could with a hit, Max persuades him to become his business partner, and they seek out the worst play in existence, to try and get a sure-fire flop and become rich. The play they find is 'Springtime for Hitler', by an unreformed Nazi called Franz Liebkind. Having secured the play, they hire the worst director they can find, and the worst actors, including a hippy called LSD, who wanders into the audition by mistake and ends up cast as Hitler. Surely nothing can go wrong with their scheme?

At first it looks like the audience is going to storm out, but then LSD comes on as Hitler and everyone thinks it's a comedy. The musical is a huge hit, and it looks like Max and Leo will be going to jail. Franz comes in and tries to shoot them, but Max instead persuades him to help them blow up the theatre. A mistake over which fuse to use leaves them all injured, and in the next scene they're in the dock.It ends with the three in jail, but rehearsing a new play, 'Prisoners of Love', and clearly trying to pull the same scam that got them arrested...

So change the subject of the play to Che Guevara and Cuba instead of Hitler and Germany and change the producer to Robert Redford and instead of Springtime for Hitler you'd have The Motorcycle Diaries with a plot that is just as preposterous. Redford certainly is an 'unreformed' communist and he has unwittingly starred in his own comedy by propping up the Cult of Che.