Film WikiLeaks tidak Bermaksud `Menghakimi`Julian Assange
WikiLeaks Movie Won`t Attemp Judgment Julian Assange
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Translator : Parulian Manalu
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Los Angeles (B2B) - Proses pembuatan film tentang Julian Assange dan laman WikiLeaks yang disutradarai oleh Bill Condon sudah dimulai dan tidak dimaksudkan untuk memberikan penilaian kepada sang peretas dan pengaruhnya.
Studio Hollywood, DreamWorks mengatakan film berjudul "The Fifth Estate" yang dibintangi oleh aktor Inggris Benedict Cumberbatch itu akan diputar di bioskop-bioskop Amerika pada November 2013.
Film itu akan melacak masa awal pendirian WikiLeaks dari mata Assange dan mantan juru bicaranya, Daniel Domscheit-Berg (diperankan oleh Daniel Brühl), dan masa puncak saat penerbitan ribuan dokumen dan email yang membahayakan pemerintah pada 2010.
"Mungkin butuh beberapa dekade untuk memahami seluruh dampak WikiLeaks dan bagaimana dia melakukan revolusi penyebaran informasi. Film ini tidak akan menyoroti pandangan otoritas dan menghakimi," kata Condon dalam pernyataan resminya seperti New Haven Register.
"Kami ingin mengeksplorasi kerumitan dan tantangan transparansi di era informasi dan kami harap bisa meramaikan dan memperkaya pembahasan yang ada tentang WikiLeaks," tambah sutradara yang membuat film musikal "Dreamgirls" dan "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn."
Cerita film ini dibuat berdasarkan buku Daniel Domscheit-Berg, mantan juru bicara Assange, yang berjudul "Inside WikiLeaks" dan "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy" karya David Leigh dan Luke Harding.
Assange berada di Kedutaan Besar Ekuador di London selama tujuh bulan demi menghindari ekstradisi ke Swedia karena tuduhan pelecehan seksual.
Dia menyatakan takut ektradisi berujung pada pengiriman dirinya ke AS, yang geram karena WikiLeaks membocorkan ribuan kawat diplomasi dan militernya.
Los Angeles - Filming has begun on a movie drama about Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks website that director Bill Condon said will not attempt to pass final judgment on the former hacker and his influence.
Hollywood movie studio DreamWorks said on Wednesday that "The Fifth Estate," starring British actor Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange, will open in U.S. movie theaters in November 2013.
The movie will trace the early days of WikiLeaks through the eyes of Assange and his German former spokesman, Daniel Domscheit-Berg (played by Daniel Brühl), culminating in the release in 2010 of a series of thousands of damaging government documents and emails.
"It may be decades before we understand the full impact of WikiLeaks and how it's revolutionized the spread of information. So this film won't claim any long view authority on its subject, or attempt any final judgment," said Condon in a statement.
"We want to explore the complexities and challenges of transparency in the information age and, we hope, enliven and enrich the conversations WikiLeaks has already provoked," added the director, whose past projects include musical "Dreamgirls" and "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn."
The movie screenplay is based on Domscheit-Berg's 2011 book "Inside WikiLeaks," written after the disillusioned German activist quit the organization, and a second book, "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy," by journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding.
The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for seven months to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning on allegations of sexual assault.
Assange has said he fears extradition will ultimately lead to him being sent to the United States, which is furious that WikiLeaks has leaked hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic and military cables.
