It’s a very interesting time we live in right now with all the various documents and information leaking from government sources here in the states and around the world. Though on the backburner at the moment, Julian Assange and his website WikiLeaks burst onto the scene in a huge way and since then it seems like our world has never been the same. Following the recent release of the documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, director Bill Condon and DreamWorks have released a trailer to their feature drama The Fifth Estate, a film which tells the story of the rise and fall of Mr. Assange, played well and looking spot on by the rising Benedict Cumberbatch.
The trailer looks quite impressive and manages to give us a good idea as to the tone it’s going for while showing off the top notch cast that stars in the feature, all in its short 2:37 min. runtime. In addition to Cumberbatch the film also stars Daniel Brühl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, with Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney featured as well.
Check out the trailer and synopsis below and let us know what you think. Does it look like something Cumberbatch could get recognized for come awards season or will this play out poorly for all involved. Right now all I can say is that we’ll find out on October 11th when the film hits theaters.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, THE FIFTH ESTATE reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world’s most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society—and what are the costs of exposing them?”
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