Set to make its world premiere as the opening night film at the Toronto Film Festival, DreamWorks has released the first official poster for its Wikileaks drama The Fifth Estate featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange opposite his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl).
The story follows their ascendance and would appear to paint the duo in a positive light as the official synopsis continues the description of the film saying:
…they team 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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Bill Condon directed the screenplay written by Josh Singer based on the books “Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website” by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and the Guardian book “WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy” by David Leigh and Luke Harding.
Alongside Cumberbatch and Bruhl the film co-stars Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, with Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney.
Following the film’s festival premiere it will hit theaters on October 18. Check out the poster below and stay tuned as this will likely be my first Toronto review come September 5.
