Last year, DreamWorks acquired two books about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, with plans for a biopic about the controversial ‘journalist’. However with Assange’s story shifting all the time, it’s taken a while to be able to move forward, however now Deadline reports actor Jeremy Renner and director Bill Condon are circling the movie.
Nothing has been signed yet, although DreamWorks has met with both the actor and director. Jeremy Renner is reportedly ‘looking hard’ at portraying Julian Assange. DreamWorks is also looking for a screenwriter to adapt the books Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website by former WikiLeaks employee Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, by David Leigh and Luke Harding, reporters for The Guardian.
Julian Assange, who launched the WikiLeaks website in 2006, is still facing prosecution in Sweden on charges of sexual assault, and US charges of leaking classified documents. He’s currently in the uK awaiting extradition, and seeking asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy.
Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures is also developing its own Untitled Julian Assange/Wikileaks Project, based on a New York Times Magazine article by Bill Keller. Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) is writing the adapted screenplay for that one.
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