Benedict Cumberbatch playing Julian Assange in Wikileaks drama "The Fifth Estate" - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Benedict Cumberbatch, (Sherlock Holmes in BBC's [I]Sherlock[/I]) will portray one of the world's most controversial figures, Wikileaks founer Julian Assange, in the upcoming film [I]The Fifth Estate[/I]. The screenplay is partially based on two books: [I]Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website[/I] and [I]WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy[/I].[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;ZT1wb8_tcYU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT1wb8_tcYU[/video] [url]http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/fifth-estate-trailer-shows-benedict-cumberbatch-as-julian-assange-20130717[/url] [URL="http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/fifth-estate-trailer-shows-benedict-cumberbatch-as-julian-assange-20130717"] [/URL]

Cool I guess. Don't like Benedict Cumberbatch since I can only see him as a molester/rapist since Absolution but if he can play Julian Assange well then--- oh...

i'd watch it. also is that jaffa playing obama? [img]http://weknowgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/jaffa-calling-meme.jpg[/img]

Should have gone with Nick Cage.

[QUOTE=Selek;41522408]Cool I guess. Don't like Benedict Cumberbatch since I can only see him as a molester/rapist since Absolution but if he can play Julian Assange well then--- oh...[/QUOTE] Assange is a suspected rapist as well, it's perfect!

Umm why couldn't they use the real Collateral Murder video??

Big fan of Bendick Cumsterbam

See "We Steal Secrets". This wikileaks movie thing has already been done.

[QUOTE=demoguy08;41523659]Umm why couldn't they use the real Collateral Murder video??[/QUOTE] Because that'd be making money off footage of actual, real people, actually; really dying on-screen?

[QUOTE=Disotrtion;41523723]See "We Steal Secrets". This wikileaks movie thing has already been done.[/QUOTE] a) that's a documentary, this is a drama and b) even if it had been done before, so what?

I think that they were shooting some of it here on Iceland. I remember a girl on my Facebook posting a picture of herself with him, and he had blonde hair.

This movie comes kinda late. I have almost forgotten about wikileaks.

[QUOTE=Riller;41523735]Because that'd be making money off footage of actual, real people, actually; really dying on-screen?[/QUOTE] I see your point, but it has been done before. I doubt the producers had moral qualms, it was probably more like "the US govt is gonna be mad at us".

he's actually who I thought of when I saw what Assange looked like.

I'm loving his Australian accent compared to most film attempts.

Sounds a bit too drawn out for me. The thing about the Australian accent is that it's really quick with a lot of reduction, but he's speaking too slowly.

[QUOTE=Flyingman356;41530034]Sounds a bit too drawn out for me. The thing about the Australian accent is that it's really quick with a lot of reduction, but he's speaking too slowly.[/QUOTE] That's pretty much how Julian Assange speaks.

[quote]Assange told the Oxford Union that Condon's film began with scenes inside a military complex in Iran, where nuclear symbols could clearly be seen. The suggestion, he said, was that the country was building a nuclear weapon and the film was clearly an attempt to go about "fanning the flames" of war. "How does this have anything to do with us? It is a lie upon lie," he said. "The movie is a massive propaganda attack on WikiLeaks and the character of my staff."[/quote] [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/24/julian-assange-attacks-wikileaks-film[/url] Seems like Assange doesn't really like this movie.

His wig looks hilarious imo :v:

He was very good as Khan, I think he can pull this off as well

As in playing the same character as Sherlock but more evil? :v:

[QUOTE=yumyumshisha;41530232]He was very good as , I think he can pull this off as well[/QUOTE] That's a nice spoiler

Hope to see some footage from Sweden!

Was that other guy spiderman?

channel ten did the best one imo [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPke_vLUXDE[/media]

awesome