An upcoming thriller about news leaking website WikiLeaks with Benedicte Cumberbatch taking on the role of its controversial editor Julian Assange. It is based in part on the book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website by Daniel Domscheit-Berg (played by Daniel Bruhl in the film). The film has been subject to controversy already though as Julian Assange read the screenplay and labelled it a "serious propaganda attack on WikiLeaks and the integrity of its staff".
The film largely deals with Assange's time with WikiLeaks and the cables that were intercepted by the website that were in turn leaked into the public domain, which changed WikiLeaks from a small internet startup to a household name in a matter of days.
The Fifth Estate is released in the UK on 1st January 2014 and the trailer is embedded below:
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