Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Dreamworks acquires rights of two books on WikiLeaks

Dreamworks, the Hollywood studio of Steven Spielberg has bought the film rights to two insider books on WikiLeaks. It could not stay with a Hollywood film: the rights to the biography of Julian Assange are probably still available. Hamburg - The WikiLeaks history comes to the interest of director Steven Spielberg: How the industry blog deadline and the Guardian report, his studio Dreamworks, the film rights to two insider books purchased.


It is "Inside WikiLeaks" by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the WikiLeaks had left in the dispute, as well as "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy" by the two Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, the the investigative stories were involved. Deadline for information from the studio has so far committed no writer, but is currently collecting material - and even film rights.

The biography of Julian Assange, which has not yet been published is obviously not included. As an example there could be the Facebook movie "The Social Network" are based on non-fiction, not memories of the people involved - so the presumption of deadline. Media professor Jeff Jarvis has also been a proposal to the appropriate title: "Saving Private Manning," a mixture of the popular Hollywood movie "Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg and the name of the young U.S. soldiers Bradley Manning. Is said to have leaked secret data WikiLeaks - and sits for months in solitary confinement.

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