Monday 16 May 2011

AMERICAblog News: Spielberg's DreamWorks buys rights to WikiLeaks movie

UPDATE: WikiLeaks and Assange are opposed to the film referring to the DreamWorks story as "bullsh**."

The legal bills for Assange won't pay themselves.

Steven Spielberg looks set to oversee WikiLeaks: the Movie after securing the screen rights to WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, the book by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding.

Reportedly conceived as an investigative thriller in the mould of All the President's Men, the film will be backed by DreamWorks – the studio founded in 1994 by Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen.

Leigh and Harding's book charts Julian Assange's life and times, from his itinerant childhood through to the creation of the WikiLeaks website in 2006. It also provides the inside story of Assange's explosive partnership with the Guardian and the release, last December, of more than 250,000 secret diplomatic cables.

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