It should come as little surprise that, in the wake of Bradley Manning being found guilty on charges that could add up to over a hundred years in military prison, filmmaker Alex Gibney is ahead of the curve on developing a feature film. According to Variety, the Oscar-winning director is following up We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks with a movie focused on the other side of the Wikileaks coin. He and producing partner Marc Shmuger have been developing it since gaining the rights to Denver Nicks’ “Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History” last year. The pair are looking for a screenwriter. In the meantime, filmmakers are all over Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Beyond Gibney’s documentary, there’s also Bill Condon’s Fifth Estate and a forthcoming potential work from Mark Boal based on the extensive investigation done by the New York Times’ Bill Heller (who was...
- 7/31/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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