The trailer to Bill Condon's latest film "The Fifth estate" has been revealed.
The film takes a look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg. The movie also looks at how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
The movie is already obtaining Oscar Buzz with many pundits claiming that the film's star Benedict Cumberbatch is a definite Best Actor Nominee. However after the trailer launched, controversy struck. Wikileaks criticized the film on Twitter stating, "'The Fifth Estate' trailer has just been released. Don't be fooled. It implies we gave Iran nukes and killed 2,000."
The comments referred to Assanges previous assertions when he read the script to the film. He said that the movie included scenes "inside an Iranian military complex and showed an Iranian source meeting with a US agent before being put in danger when his name is published in a WikiLeaks release." Assange previously stated that no such events ever happened and that the film was going to be a "massive propaganda attack" on his organization.
Condon recently told the press that the scenes had been cut but the Wikileaks Twitter wrote, "Our comments are based on the script used during filming, not, as the [director] Bill Condon falsely states, an old script. (though we have them too)."
The controversy will most likely build as the release date comes closer. This may help the film's box office and eventual Oscar chances as seen with last year's "Zero Dark Thirty." That film ended up grossing $95 million and was nominated for five Academy Awards.
"The Fifth Estate" also stars Alicia Vikander, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney, Danuel Bruhl, Anthony Mackie, Carice Van Houten and David Thewlis. Dreamworks will release it on October 18.
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