Finally we’re able to get a first look at what we can expect from the WikiLeaks movie The Fifth Estate. The film, that is based on real events, explores the corruption and deception that caused the Internet to go into a complete frenzy.

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Brühl, and Laura Linney, here is the synopsis from DreamWorks:

THE FIFTH ESTATE reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world’s most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question of our time: what are the costs of keeping secrets in a free society—and what are the costs of exposing them?

You can go and see the anticipated film when it opens in theatres 18 October.

[Source: Business Insider]