The first trailer for Fifth Estate - the movie based on the inception of WikiLeaks starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the platinum haired Julian Assange - has been released.
This movie is based on the information chronicled within two books, Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website and WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy. Daniel Bruhl appears alongside Cumberbatch as Daniel Domscheit-Berg who teamed up with Assange in the development of WikiLeaks, allowing for the leaking of highly confidential and significant data, which lead to inevitable rise of one massive shit storm.
On an unrelated side note, from his dark black locks as the villain in Star Trek Into Darkness to hair brighter than Katie Price in her blondest of days here, Cumberbatch would be wanting to invest in some serious conditioning treatments. The split ends, can you imagine?
The official synopsis reads as follows:
A dramatic thriller based on real events, THE FIFTH ESTATE reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, THE FIFTH ESTATE reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world’s most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society—and what are the costs of exposing them?
Starring alongside Benedict is an impressive cast list: Anthony Mackie, Laura Linney, Daniel Bruhl, and Stanley Tucci. Bill Condon is at the helm. (The fact that he directed the last two Twilight movies is something we're going to move swiftly past... )
