WikiLeaks posts The Fifth Estate script and labels film 'irresponsible'

WikiLeaks posts The Fifth Estate script and labels film 'irresponsible' | Film | The Guardian

WikiLeaks has posted what it claims is a "mature" version of the screenplay for Julian Assange film The Fifth Estate, accompanied by a memo which labels the film "irresponsible, counterproductive and harmful."  The site describes Bill Condon's drama, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange, as "a work of fiction masquerading as fact", adding: "Most of the events depicted never happened, or the people shown were not involved in them."  WikiLeaks' 4,000-word missive also determines to pick apart what it claims is the film's central argument: that the site's release of classified US State Department documents in 2010 exposed and potentially endangered more than 2,000 informants worldwide. The role of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, which the film suggests was once Assange's right-hand man, is downplayed, and the memo seeks to lampoon suggestions that the site's founder dyes his hair white.  After posting the leaked script, WikiLeaks tweeted: "As WikiLeaks was never consulted about the Dreamworks/Disney film on us, we've given our advice for free: It's bad."