Movies about julian assange news

2013 thriller film by Bill Condon

The Fifth Estate is a 2013 biographicalthriller film directed by Bill Condon about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks.

The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as its editor-in-chief and founder Julian Assange and Daniel Brühl as its former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg.^[7]Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Stanley Tucci, and Laura Linney are featured in supporting roles.^[8] The film's screenplay was written by Josh Singer based in-part on Domscheit-Berg's book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website (2011), as well as WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy (2011) by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding.

The film's name is a reference to people who operate in the manner of journalists outside the normal constraints imposed on the mainstream media.^[9]

Co-produced by DreamWorks Pictures and Participant Medi