DreamWorks reportedly planning WikiLeaks film

[HMG Celebrity News] – You knew this was coming and now it’s been confirmed – DreamWorks have just unveiled plans for a WikiLeaks movie.

The studio has bought the rights to the book “WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy,” written by David Leigh and Luke Harding. Their plan is to make an investigative thriller, like the 1976 classic ‘All the President’s Men.’

“It’s Woodward and Bernstein meets Stieg Larsson, meets Jason Bourne,” says Alan Rusbridger, editor of the UK’s Guardian newspaper who worked with Assange. “Plus the odd moment of sheer farce and a compelling character [Julian] who goes beyond what Hollywood would dare to invent.”

But DreamWorks are already facing threats of a lawsuit from Julian himself, who is keen to keep some parts of the book secret. The parts starring him.

Published last month, the book covers 39-year old Julian’s life to date, from a nomadic childhood in his native Australia to the birth of WikiLeaks in 2006. It also covers his stormy collaboration with the Guardian, and their release of over 250,000 secret cables last December.

DreamWorks has also secured the rights to ‘Inside WikiLeaks,’ a bitter review of Assange written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Julian’s former spokesman. The book claims Julian was ‘obsessed’ with conspiracy theories and became controlling and secretive to the point of being “like some emperor or slave trader.”

To add even more spice, Dan’s just opened a web site planned as a WikiLeaks rival – ‘Open Leaks.’

“A good template for what they’re planning is ‘The Social Network,’ where the producers not only used the book, but gathered testimony from the lawsuits against Mark Zuckerberg,” explains Mike Fleming of Deadline Hollywood.

The new movie still lacks a cast, a script and a director, but if Julian gets his way it will never take off. WikiLeaks’ response to news of the DreamWorks deal came via Twitter;

“This is how bulls**t ends up being history,” it reads. “Spielberg lines up WikiLeaks film based on books by opportunists.”

So Julian is now facing allegations of rape, fathering four children and being anti-semitic, plus a rival web site opened by a former friend and insider. Could life get worse?

It’s curious that he should want to share everyone’s secrets but his, but what’s your review of this news?…

Source: Huff Post