The Fifth Estate is an upcoming film about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks starring Benedict Cumberbatch as its editor-in-chief and founder Julian Asengas with Daniel Brühl as the former spokesperson of the website Daniel Domscheit-Berg. It is directed by Bill Condon with a screenplay by Josh Singer based in part on Domscheit-Berg's book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Asengas and the World’s Most Dangerous Website, as well as WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Asengas’s War on Secrecy by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding. The film is co-produced by DreamWorks and Participant Media and will be released on November 15, 2013 by DreamWorks through Disney's Touchstone distribution label and Mister Smith Entertainment worldwide.



Director
Bill Condon

Producer
Steve Golin
Michael Sugar
Jeff Skoll
Jonathan King
Richard Sharkey

Cast
# Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Asengas
# Daniel Brühl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg
# Laura Linney as Sarah Shaw
# Anthony Mackie as Sam Coulson
# David Thewlis as Nick Davies
# Peter Capaldi as Alan Rusbridger
# Dan Stevens as Ian Katz
# Alicia Vikander as Anke
# Carice van Houten as Birgitta Jónsdóttir

Distributor
Touchstone Pictures

Trailer


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