- WIKILEAKS
As The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 is set to be hitting theaters next week,
director Bill Condon is prepping his next project, a still-untitled narrative
that follows the true story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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| James McAvoy |
Recently Variety reported that James McAvoy is in talks to
play Daniel Domcheit-Berg opposite Benedict Cumberbatch's Assange.
Domcheit-Berg is the author of "Inside WikiLeaks: My
Time With Julian Assange At The World's Most Dangerous Website," the book
upon which the DreamWorks production will be based.
Published in 2011, it is officially described as follows:
Since its launch in 2006, WikiLeaks has rapidly grown into
the most powerful and influential whistleblowing organisation ever. Its status
as a repository and publisher of leaked sensitive and confidential documents —
while preserving the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors — as well
as the statements and behaviour of its leader, Julian Assange, have made
WikiLeaks daily front-page news and a topic of enormous controversy.
In this eye-opening account, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who
joined WikiLeaks in its early days and became its spokesman, reveals
never-disclosed details about the inner workings of the organisation that has
struck fear into governments and businesses worldwide. He also provides a
remarkably up-close portrait of Julian Assange himself.
Under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt, Domscheit-Berg was
effectively No. 2 at WikiLeaks and the organisation’s most public face after
Julian Assange. In this book, he tells the backstories of major leaks, and
reveals the evolution, finances, and inner tensions of the whistleblower
organisation, beginning with his first meeting with Assange in December 2007.
He also describes what led to his September 2010 withdrawal from WikiLeaks,
including his disenchantment with the organisation’s lack of transparency, its
abandonment of political neutrality, and Assange’s increasing concentration of
power.
McAvoy recently starred in X-Men: First Class and provided a
voice for Arthur Christmas. He can next be seen on the big screen in Welcome to
the Punch.
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