WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released a lengthy letter to actor Benedict Cumberbatch declining a meeting with him and condemning DreamWorks upcoming film The Fifth Estate.
Assange said Wednesday that meeting with Cumberbatch would "validate" the "wretched" film.
"You will be used, as a hired gun, to assume the appearance of the truth in order to assassinate it," Assange said. "To present me as someone morally compromised and to place me in a falsified history. To create a work, not of fiction, but of debased truth."
DreamWorks based its script on the books "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy" and "Inside Wikileaks." Assange said these sources are the "most widely discredited" books about his movement.
"I cannot permit this film any claim to authenticity or truthfulness," Assange said. "In its current form it has neither, and doing so would only further aid the campaign against me."
