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Wikileaks Movie Coming To the Big Screen
Hugh Pickens writes "First Facebook and now Wikileaks as the Guardian reports that studio executives have picked up the screen rights to the forthcoming Julian Assange biography 'The Most Dangerous Man in the World' by award-winning Australian writer Andrew Fowler. The book details Assange's life from his childhood on Magnetic Island in Queensland, Australia, all the way through to his founding of the whistleblower website in 2006 to publish classified material. Producers Barry Josephson and Michelle Krumm, who have optioned The Most Dangerous Man in the World, say they are planning a 'suspenseful drama' in the vein of All the President's Men and with the thrill of a Tom Clancy novel. 'As soon as I met Andrew and read a few chapters of his profound book, I knew that – with his incredibly extensive depth of knowledge – it would enable us to bring a thought-provoking thriller to the screen,' says Krumm."
I hope the script gets leaked.
The contracts get leaked.
An audio recording of one of the actors being a little bitch gets leaked.
And the icing on the cake would be the film being leaked.
Yet I still think WikiLeaks rules!!!
hollywood will picture the man and its work in a bad light with subtle messages, while appearing not to be doing so.
business as usual. wag the dog.
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If his ego gets any bigger, his head will burst out of any cell they try to put him in.
They're claiming the film rights from an unofficial biographer who, as far as I have heard, did not pay Assange or Wikileaks royalties, and only according to rumour paid them a one-time payment - in short, a biographer who may have paid Assange nothing. They're not claiming the film rights from Assange, or from Wikileaks, or from the Sunshine Press, or from any associated organization or person. Unless Assange or Wikileaks step in, they won't be making a penny and we'll have one more shitty current-events movie.
Instead of a movie about a wealthy kid making absurd amounts of money by selling snake oil. I love that the MSM became so enamored with facebook that Time magazine named facebook kid "person of the year" in spite of the fact that Julian Assange had 10 times the number of votes.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Thanks for making a totalitarian rule that much easier, wikileaks?
no, thank to you, the fool, for making totalitarian rule real behind a 'free' storefront, with your 'let the sleeping lords lie' mindset. thinking that if there wasnt wikileaks, the sources which are trying to censor and repress were not going to do it. they started it in 2002, the acta proceedings. they brought the 2006 anti-net neutrality attack, they brought coica long ago.
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yet, morons like you still trying to blame wikileaks for censorship. boy. its easy when you pay zero attention to what's happening in the world, apart from headlines you get served.
as for what is being changed in civilization, its in the process of being changed. it is a move towards transparency and truth, which was promised with a straight face and then ignored by almost all politicians. anyone befouling a cause for transparency and truth, regardless of how it is being handled, is a moron that deserves being herded. 'let the sleeping lords lie' indeed
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But when I actually listen to him speak he strikes me as a level headed guy.
Don't listen to what he says (or how he says it). Watch what he does (and doesn't do). Note the number of former associates/co-workers who've shared his stated purpose but found themselves highly annoyed by his condescending behavior towards them. Note his comments about how the papers he's giving the stolen documents to have to release them according to his plans, because "he owns them." He's all about him.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act
George Orwell
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