Wikileaks Movie Coming To the Big Screen

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Wikileaks Movie Coming To the Big Screen

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 23, 2011 @04:37AM from the what-took-so-long dept.

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."

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I hope the script gets leaked by EmperorOfCanada · 2011-01-23 04:39 · Score: 5, Interesting

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!!!
1. Re:I hope the script gets leaked by JamesP · 2011-01-23 09:20 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  The real question is: Who's going to play Julian Assange's hair?!
  
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2. Re:I hope the script gets leaked by Nazlfrag · 2011-01-23 15:04 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Yeah, that butchered video they released at the exact same time as they released the full, unedited, uncut video really ruined their reputation by making them suddenly world famous instead of an obscure site that only nerds like us knew anything about. Get a grip.
When he comes...all Hell breaks loose by RDW · 2011-01-23 04:40 · Score: 4, Funny

Presumably it's a 're-imagining' of this:
http://www.astrodispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10/9725f_warlock-the-armageddon-205x300.jpg
astounding ! by Dolphinzilla · 2011-01-23 04:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

And you guys thought Julian had a big ego before - honestly, the only way I'd ever waste a dime on this movie would be if Jim Carey played the lead role, and they did it as a comedy
so ? by unity100 · 2011-01-23 04:46 · Score: 3, Insightful

a lot of people in history had big egos, yet you still are using what breakthroughs and changes they have brought to this civilization without any issues.

or, you though that all the prominent historical figures that have provided anything of value to the society took after mother theresa ...

are you sure that, its not someone else's ego, but your own, getting irritated with someone else's ?

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1. Re:so ? by Darkness404 · 2011-01-23 05:11 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Except for the fact that Assange isn't some great revolutionary. Yes, we can admire the fact that he started it, but that was it. He started it. He didn't leak documents. While Assange is important and is to be commended for starting such a site, he seems to get all the credit which he doesn't deserve. The real revolutionaries are those who leaked things like the Iraq War documents, the "collateral murder" video, the diplomatic cables, etc. all Assange did was host them, which, while noble, doesn't make him a revolutionary.
  
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2. Re:so ? by unity100 · 2011-01-23 06:47 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  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.
  
  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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Are Wikileaks actually making anything? by a+Flatbed+Darkly · 2011-01-23 04:54 · Score: 5, Interesting

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.
1. Re:Are Wikileaks actually making anything? by a+Flatbed+Darkly · 2011-01-23 05:00 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  In addition, as Assange's lawyer earlier condemned the biographies, and no one has their lawyer condemn things that they'll be profiting from, we have it near enough confirmed that, like Wikileaks or Assange or not, no money from this is going anywhere near them.
License to Leak by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2011-01-23 05:03 · Score: 4, Funny

'The Most Dangerous Man in the World' ?
"My name is Assange. Julian Assange. I have a license to leak."
In the film he gets not one, but two Bond, oh, I mean two Assange girls. But then they accuse him of rape, and the film's plot goes downhill from there.

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This is the movie we should have had last year... by damn_registrars · 2011-01-23 05:07 · Score: 5, Interesting

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.

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bad idea by initialE · 2011-01-23 05:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

Whatever happened to waiting until the story is over to tell the tale? History used to be written by the winners, not by the ones vested in getting their opinion turned into the "correct" one.

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Assange'e ego by FrankHS · 2011-01-23 05:51 · Score: 5, Insightful

I have heard a lot of people say that Assange has a big ego, is a narcissist etc. But when I actually listen to him speak he strikes me as a level headed guy.
Why do so many people think he has a big ego?
1. Re:Assange'e ego by countertrolling · 2011-01-23 06:45 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Why do so many people think he has a big ego?
  That's the press talking. If he doesn't grant an interview, they get all pissed off and start making shit up to try to make him come out and deny, or whatever. Old trick.
  
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2. Re:Assange'e ego by ScentCone · 2011-01-23 11:30 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  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.
  
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Re:What a... by TimeOut42 · 2011-01-23 06:03 · Score: 3, Insightful

Exactly like the facebook movie....
The script ... by PPH · 2011-01-23 06:05 · Score: 4, Funny

... is already up. Posted on the State department's web site.

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Re:Julian Assange by c6gunner · 2011-01-23 06:32 · Score: 4, Funny

Can't wait for the sex-scene!