Steven Spielberg buys screen rights to WikiLeaks story

Macaulay Culkin, best known for his child roles, has been tipped as a front runner to play Julian Assange in an upcoming film about WikiLeaks. Steven Spielberg’s Hollywood studio, Dreamworks has secured the screen rights to WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy, the book by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding.

You guys give up yet? Or are you thirsty for more?





It tells the inside story of Assange’s dealings with The Guardian and the release of secret diplomatic cables.

“It’s Woodward and Bernstein meets Stieg Larsson meets Jason Bourne,” Guardian editor-in-chief said of the film.

“Plus the odd moment of sheer farce and, in Julian Assange, a compelling character who goes beyond what any Hollywood scriptwriter would dare to invent.”

The film is one of a number of productions based on WikiLeaks and its eccentric founder, who has applied to register his name in the UK as an entertainment services trademark, preventing unauthorized endorsements of products and services using his name.

There is no doubt about it, Macaulay Culkin would be a dead ringer for Julian Assange, let’s hope he can find a good accent coach.