the Fifth Estate (über Julian Assange bzw. WikiLeaks)

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Director: Bill Condon
Screenwriter: Josh Singer
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney
Genre: Drama, Thriller

Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, "The Fifth Estate" reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society—and what are the costs of exposing them?

Trailer:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=106551

Cumberbatch als Kotzbrocken Assange - naja, mal abwarten. Trailer schaut zumindest solide aus.
Dennoch schau ich mir da lieber We Steal Secrets an...

[Moonshade]

Ah, noch mal die spielfilmgerechte Zusammenfassung...brauch ich das?
Zumindest Cumberbatch hat optisch was von Assange, mal schauen ob das Skript auch einigermaßen ambivalent daherkommt...

[Inspektor Yuen]

Ah, noch mal die spielfilmgerechte Zusammenfassung...brauch ich das?
Zumindest Cumberbatch hat optisch was von Assange, mal schauen ob das Skript auch einigermaßen ambivalent daherkommt...

Eher von Simon Gosejohann..  :king:

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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Not Thrilled With Benedict Cumberbatch's Portrayal in The Fifth Estate, Asks Him to Reject Film    :icon_rolleyes:

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wants Benedict Cumberbatch to publicly disown The Fifth Estate, the upcoming film in which the actor portrays the mastermind behind the famed whistleblower website.

A letter the embattled Assange wrote Cumberbatch back in January rejecting the latter's request to meet before filming began has surfaced on WikiLeaks' website.

In it, Assange praises the British star's acting abilities but suggests that his participation in the Bill Condon-directed thriller will "distort" the public's understanding of Assange and his nonprofit's championing of transparency and "bury good people doing good work."

"I believe you are a good person, but I do not believe that this film is a good film. I do not believe it is going to be positive for me or the people I care about," wrote the former hacker turned publisher, adding that The Fifth Estate s based on two "toxic" books, one of which was written by "someone who has a vendetta against me and my organization."

He continued: "You will be used, as a hired gun, to assume the appearance of the truth in order to assassinate it. To present me as someone morally compromised and to place me in a falsified history. To create a work, not of fiction, but of debased truth."

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