Benedict Cumberbatch is Julian Assange in highly anticipated WikiLeaks movie

Jul 17, 2013 19:26 GMT  ·  By

“The Fifth Estate,” the highly anticipated WikiLeaks movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch as controversial Julian Assange, finally has a first trailer. You can see it in full above.

The film presents a dramatized version of the rise and fall of WikiLeaks, starting with how Assange teamed up with Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) to offer a platform for whistleblowers to leak classified information, and ending with their fall from grace.

According to the synopsis, “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 film will be out on October 18, 2013.

Those keeping track of the film industry’s interest in Assange’s case probably know that this is the second WikiLeaks theatrical release this year, the other one being the documentary “We Steal Secrets.”