‘The Fifth Estate’ Trailer: How Hollywood Does WikiLeaks
Benedict Cumberbatch ("Sherlock") plays Julian Assange in DreamWorks and Participant Media's upcoming film based on the book by WikiLeaks ship-jumper Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Luke Harding of The Guardian.Benedict Cumberbatch (“Sherlock”) plays Julian Assange in DreamWorks and Participant Media’s upcoming film based on the book by WikiLeaks ship-jumper Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Luke Harding of The Guardian.
The real-life Assange apparently got an advanced look at the script and called it a “mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks the organization, and the character of my staff.”
The trailer for the film is below.
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Julian Assange has taken strong objection to "The Fifth Estate," Hollywood's take on WikiLeaks' adventures in journalism. In a new interview, the director of the film, Bill Condon, says the WikiLeaks publisher "just flat-out makes things up."
Julian Assange has been critical of the upcoming dramatization of his work, "The Fifth Estate," since he read an early draft of the script. Now, as the movie is set to open, he cuts it to ribbons once again.
After reading Benedict Cumberbatch's full, unedited remarks on the punishment of Chelsea Manning and government destruction of privacy, published Monday at The Guardian, I believe his meanings as originally reported remain intact.
The award-winning director and champion of left-wing causes has defended the WikiLeaks founder against two forthcoming films after revealing that he met Assange at his de facto prison in London's Ecuadorean Embassy last week.
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