DreamWorks buys rights to two Wikilieaks books to make into film

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DreamWorks is developing the story of Julian Assange into a feature film. There has been a mad dash to get feature film into development. Now that the studio has bought the rights we are closer to see a film go into production.

The studio has acquired rights to Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website, the Crown book by Daniel Domscheit-Berg. He's the former top WikiLeaks former executive who jumped ship after the site did not practice journalistic discretion.  

DreamWorks has also bought WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, written by David Leigh and Luke Harding, journalists at The Guardian who worked with Assange on bringing his first revelations into play through their paper,  as well as Der Spiegel and The New York Times. That book was published by Guardian Books. They detail their "dealings with Assange, who at one point hid from the CIA in Leigh's London house." The book covers the WikiLeaks phenomenon from its 2006 launch onward.

As you likely know, Assange was "recently ordered by a British judge to be extradited back to Sweden to face accusations of sexual abuse. Assange was paid $1.5 million to write his own memoirs, which will be handled for the screen by CAA and lit agency Peters Fraser & Dunlop."

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