So many Julian Assange movies out there, so few of them will likely turn out to be any good. One in-development film that piqued my interest last July would have Bill Condon(Kinsey) directing with Jeremy Renner circling the role of the notorious activist and Wikileaks founder. Well now it appears Renner is out, and Deadline is hearing Benedict Cumberbatch could be taking over, with a part for Joel Kinnaman as well.
None of this is confirmed yet, but even so these are two names that should get a lot of people excited with the potential. Cumberbatch seems to be at the top of every studio's list lately, as he's already got two major franchise flicks with Star Trek Into Darkness and The Hobbit. Kinnaman is currently filming the Robocop remake, and if signed would play Assange's right-hand man Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who wrote one of the two books on Assange that Josh Singer(The West Wing) adapted for the screenplay.
I'm not the biggest Kinnaman fan, but he could be really good opposite such a strong actor as Cumberbatch. The Assange saga has a lot of real life twists and turns left, so we may some tweaking of the script if something major develops.
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