Sure Shots: Wikileaks; Sarah Palin; writer named for Risk board game film

* There are so many flicks floating around about Wikileaks founder(and hero, in my opinion), Julian Assange, that it's impossible to get a handle on them. So the best thing to do is focus on the one with the most potential, and that's HBO's film that already has Academy Award winner Charles Ferguson(No End in Sight, Inside Job) aboard to direct. Well now he's got a little bit of help, as Rowan Joffe has been brought on to write the script. Joffe's most recent effort was the introspective hitman film, The American. He also wrote the script for zombie sequel, 28 Weeks Later. [Deadline]

* While half-term Governor, full-time victim Sarah Palin is making a spectacle of her "family vacation" bus tour right now, the documentary she authorized is will be headed to a theater near all of us real soon. Be afraid.  The film, titled The Undefeated, has been picked up by AMC Theaters and will roll out in 10 markets starting on July 15th. The film is rumored to be a precursor to a possible Presidential bid. Personally, I think it's just another way for the attention whore to keep herself in the limelight. [IndieWire]

* Considering that the painfully dull nations at war game, Risk, was created by a French filmmaker it should've been only a matter of time before it became a movie. Fiftyfour years later and here we are! Sony struck a deal with Hasbro to make a film a couple of years ago, diving into the disturbing trend of flicks based on board games(Candyland, Battleship, to name a couple). Sony and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment have hired John Hlavin(Underworld: New Dawn) to write a script that will turn the Hasbro game into a "contemporary global action thriller". If they totally abandon the source, it might not be that bad, just like Battleship might not be awful. We shall see. [Deadline]