Julian Assange's internet dating adventures to be made into a film
Source: Guardian
Cyril Tuschi, the director of an acclaimed documentary about imprisoned Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is to make a fictional film imagining a trio of romantic assignations involving Julian Assange.
Alongside British screenwriter Michael Gaster, whose credits include the 2010 short Underdogs, Tuschi is working on an English-language script entitled Leaks Three Dates With Harry Harrison. Co-producer Jan Krüger told Screen International:
"Cyril came up with the fact that Assange had been involved in internet dating using the screen name of Harry Harrison. So, the film recounts three dates with Harry Harrison taking place in 2010. One date is in Iceland when he was establishing a organisation that would change journalism, democracy and the internet. Then we jump to the second date with a fan in Sweden where he is the man of the moment and feted like a popstar
Finally, there is an internet date in a manor house in London, with 'Harrison' all by himself wearing an electronic tag, third date being with a woman journalist who reflects on where he has ended up. The film will chart the rise and fall of someone who pits themselves against authority, a Robin Hood of the digital age who stumbles over his own personality."
Read more: http://m.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/25/julian-assange-internet-dating-film?cat=film&type=article
No casting decisions yet, I'm sure we can come up with some.
clang1
(884 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 25, 2012, 07:47 PM - Edit history (2)
Hopefully he will make light of the absurdities of the Swedish claims. Those not interested in justice will mock this of course.
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bemildred
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(11,155 posts)in 3d and iMax!
EFerrari
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(956 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Guy Pearce. Tom Felton, though he's a tad young.
Robb
(39,665 posts)Works on many levels.
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(53,661 posts)Forgot his name, though.
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(89 posts)Rob Schneider is always the answer to "Who will play X?"
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(44,131 posts)jake335544
(53 posts)I might not have a firm position on the whole wikileaks media spectacle, but I do believe Bradley Manning broke the law, civil disobedience or not. I don't believe that the US has a right to arrest non-US citizens, unless as a matter of genuine defense our citizens. I don't believe Assange, or even Wikileaks poses a real threat to citizens of the US (even the government as well).
Julian Assange as a figure of personality has gathered much much more interest than the cables that were leaked. Julian Assange reminds me a bit of the public personality of an early Howard Stern. Blowing his image up beyond the actual quality of material produced. It's fun, but totally unnecessary of Julian. Remember that photo of him that was one Wikileaks for so long lol.
So with Wikileaks as pretty much a non-threat, and with much larger examples of international US bullying already in mainstream news, Wikileaks seems to be news fluff in comparison. Fluff is fun however :/