A film based on the life of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is in the works, according to an article posted over at Variety. The trade says that the film will be a suspenseful drama thriller, with producers optioning the feature rights to Australian reporter Andrew Fowler’s upcoming biography “The Most Dangerous Man in the World.”
It adds that the movie will chronicle Assange’s life from his childhood to the current day with the anti-secrecy WikiLeaks “revolution.”
Since it’s birth in 2006, the WikiLeaks website is responsible for exposing secrets about American involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, secret US diplomatic cables, toxic waste dumping in Africa, Church of Scientology manuals and Guantanamo Bay procedures.
The film will be produced by Michelle Krumm, Barry Josephson and L.H Adonis.
Source: Variety
