New Poster For WikiLeaks Film ‘The Fifth Estate’

A brand new one-sheet poster for the upcoming WikiLeaks film THE FIFTH ESTATE has just landed online courtesy of Dreamworks Pictures. The film features an all star cast, led by current hot property Benedict Cumberbatch, and debuts in cinemas in the UK on 11th October, and the US a week later on the 18th October.

Here’s the official synopsis for the movie.

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 (Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (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?

Daniel Brühl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney round out the cast.

Here’s the new North American poster.

Source: Dreamworks Picture