HBO and BBC team up for WikiLeaks movie

*When the world has a crisis, you can bet on it being turned into a
movie.*

Which is exactly what’s happening with the WikiLeaks
controversy, after the site’s editor-in-chief Julian Assange
revealed reams of sensitive government documents online last year.

_Variety_ reports that Rowan Joffe (_The American_, above) is writing
a movie version of the scandal, with the story following Assange and
his operatives as they post private information online.
_Inside Job_ director Charles Ferguson will direct.

We’re sure co-producers HBO and the BBC are hoping for something
not dissimilar to _The Social Network_, which also took an online
phenomenon and turned it into a classy, Oscar-baiting film.

Joffe’s isn’t the only WikiLeaks film in the works. _Hurt
Locker_ writer/ producer Mark Boal is also backing one, while an
in-the-works Assange biography has been optioned by Josephson
Entertainment and Michelle Krumm Productions.

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