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Julian Assange says he has obtained a leaked copy of the script for The Fifth Estate, a DreamWorks film about the maverick computer expert and his famed secret-busting site.
“It is a mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks, the organisation (and) the character of my staff,” he said, adding that the movie - the opening scenes of which Assange described as taking place in Tehran and Cairo - also hyped Western fears over the Islamic Republic’s disputed atomic energy programme.
In a telephone interview late Friday, Assange said that the film’s plot revolves around a fictional mole in Iran’s nuclear programme who discovers that the country has nearly finished building an atom bomb and will soon be in a position to load it onto ballistic missiles. The film has the informant fleeing to Iraq when WikiLeaks publishes his name among its massive trove of classified material.
Assange says the whole story is “a lie built on a lie”.
The Fifth Estate stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange and Daniel Bruhl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an early Assange ally who eventually fell out with WikiLeaks.
The film is due for release in November.
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