Saturday, August 10, 2013

The Toppler

Julian Assange is easily one of the most enigmatic persons of the modern era.

So, of course, they had to get one of the most dynamically engaging actors working today to portray the guy on the silver screen.

Enter the Cumber-stud himself, Benedict Cumberbatch.

The Brit is set to intrigue us all in the upcoming Bill Condon-helmed film about the WikiLeaks whistleblower The Fifth Estate, which, the director has said, presents Assange as “neither hero [n]or villain.

James McAvoy Daniel BrühlAnthony Mackie, Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci, and Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens co-star in the film, which is based upon activist and author Daniel Domscheit-Berg’s book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous WebsiteBrühl plays Domscheit-Berg.

The Fifth Estate – which will open the Toronto International Film Festival next month – is due out in the U.K. on Oct. 11 and in America a week later.

Photo: Telegraph.co.uk.

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