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Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson (Inside Job) has come on board to direct HBO Films’ movie about Julian Assange should it be greenlighted for production. The project, a co-production with the BBC, is based on source material that includes Raffi Khatchadourian’s June 7, 2010, article in The New Yorker No Secrets: Julian Assange’s Mission for Total Transparency, which takes an in-depth look at Assange and follows him and his WikiLeaks operatives as they prepare to leak a 38-minute classified video filmed from inside of the cockpit of an U.S. Army Apache Helicopter. The film is being executive produced by Joshua Maurer and Alixandre Witlin of City Entertainment and David Stern of KippSter Entertainment. Ferguson will also produce with producing partner Audrey Marrs. A writer for the project is expected to be locked in soon. This marks the first narrative project for Ferguson, who is also eying a transition to feature film directing. In addition to Inside Job, he wrote, directed and produced the Oscar-nominated documentary No End in Sight.
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Can’t HBO produce just one movie that’s even remotely interesting to an audience? No wonder their ratings for these things are in the toilet.
Raffi has one fact that’s probably wrong in his article. Assange almost certainly didn’t de-encrypt the Apache helicopter tapes. (The idea that a guy w/o a string of Crays could de-encrypt NSA-level encryption is totally wacky.) It’s likely that the tapes came with the de-encryption key.
Point is: Assange may be a brilliant marketer and a talented hacker, but he’s not the CalTech-level brainiac he makes himself out to be.
The problem with all the material Assange puts out about himself is that a lot of it’s suspect. It’s suspect whether you believe in WL or not, and sifting through the bull to find the reality is often nearly impossible. Even his own people don’t know. So Raffi can be forgiven for getting this one fact wrong, but I don’t see how an army of fact-checkers could create an Assange film that’s less than 35% total fiction.
I hope Oliver Stone directs this and exposes the truth.
Smooth move.