Movie on Wikileaks is a massive propaganda attack: Assange

Julian Assange has hit out at the movie being made on Wikileaks, titled the The Fifth Estate,  and claimed that it was nothing but a “massive propaganda attack”. Wire agency AFP reported that Assange during a video communication with the audiences at the Oxford union debating club said that he has a copy of the script of the film and it is all a lie. [caption id=“attachment_600624” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Benedict Cumberbatch who plays Julian Assange (left) with Daniel Bruhl who plays Daniel Domscheit-Berg are seen during the filming of the WikiLeaks drama, The Fifth Estate. AP[/caption] Assange said, “It is a lie upon lie. The movie is a massive propaganda attack on WikiLeaks and the character of my staff..” Filming has begun on a movie drama about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks that director Bill Condon said will not attempt to pass final judgment on the former hacker and his influence. Hollywood movie studio DreamWorks said on Wednesday that The Fifth Estate, starring British actor Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange, will open in US movie theaters in November 2013. The movie will trace the early days of WikiLeaks through the eyes of Assange and his German former spokesman, Daniel Domscheit-Berg (played by Daniel Brühl), culminating in the release in 2010 of a series of thousands of damaging government documents and emails. The movie screenplay is based on Domscheit-Berg’s 2011 book “Inside WikiLeaks,” written after the disillusioned German activist quit the organization, and a second book, “WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy,” by journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding. Assange, who grew up in Australia, was also profiled in the 2012 Australian TV film “Underground.” The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for seven months to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning on allegations of sexual assault. Assange has said he fears extradition will ultimately lead to him being sent to the United States, which is furious that WikiLeaks has leaked hundreds of thousands of secret US diplomatic and military cables. With inputs from Reuters