I was just perusing Deadline New York's website and I came across this piece of intriguing news...I say intriguing because I really didn't know what to make of it.
According to Deadline New York Dreamworks has already bought the screen rights to two books about Julien Assange and WikiLeaks and the events that lead up to him hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy because he didn't want to go back to Sweden to face a law suit of sexual assault on two women.
Anywho...the books that they have got the screen rights for are "Inside WikiLeaks:My Time With Julien Assange At The World's Most Dangerous Website" which was written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg who used to be Julien Assange's right hand man at WikiLeaks, and the other book is "WikiLeaks: Inside Julien Assange's War On Secrecy" by David Leigh and Luke Harding.
This though isn't the end says Deadline New York for film studios to be making films that are based on Julien Assange, apparently there is already a documentary lined up by Universal Studios has aquired a documentary that will be directed by Oscar winning documentary director Alex Gibney, this documentary will be produced by Marc Schmuger the former chairman over at Universal Studios as well as Alex Gibney.
HBO is already thinking of co-producing with it's long time collaborator BBC to co-produce a film about Julien Assange, the source material that is said by Deadline Hollywood to be an article from The New Yorker written by Raffi Khatchadourian in 2010 called "No Secrets: Julien Assange's Mission For Total Transparency", that was an in-depth look at Julien Assange and his team as they were gearing up to leak a 38 minuite top secret video that was filmed from the inside of a U.S Army Apache Helicopter Cockpit.
This HBO project will be executive produced by Joshua Maurer Alexandre Witlin.
Mark Boal the writer of "The Hurt Locker" and Management 360 are set to produce along with Megan Ellison who will produce as well as finance through her Annapurna Pictures an option to be made into a film "The Boy Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest", this was an article that was written in The New York Times Magazine that was written by editor of its newspaper Bill Keller.
Deadline New York seems to suggests that Mark Boal might write the script for this depending if his busy work schedule gets freed up any time soon, or if not then he'll have to do it sooner rather than later!
It's likely reports Deadline New York that Bill Condon will direct the DreamWorks Pictures film, and it also reports that conversations are being had between DreamWorks and Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch to play Julien Assange and The Killings Joel Kinnaman who will be Robocop playing Daniel Domscheit-Berg the former right hand man to Julien Assange.
But, there has been rumours says Deadline New York that DreamWorks had had conversations with Jeremy Renner who was most recently in The Bourne Legacy.
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