the-fifth-estateCarter Burwell is reuniting with director Bill Condon on the upcoming WikiLeaks drama The Fifth Estate. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange and Daniel Brühl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg, as well as Laura Linney, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Peter Capaldi, Dan Stevens, Alicia Vikander and Carice van Houten. The movie chronicles the early days of WikiLeaks, culminating in the release of a series of controversial and history changing information leaks. Josh Singer (Fringe, The West Wing) wrote the screenplay based on Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website by Daniel Domscheit-Berg and WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy by David Leigh and Luke Harding. Steve Golin (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Babel) and Michael Sugar (Big Miracle) are producing the DreamWorks Studios production. Burwell has previously collaborated with Condon on such films as Gods and MonstersKinsey and the final two movies in the Twilight series. The Fifth Estate is set to be released on October 11, 2013 by Disney’s Touchstone label.

  1. Macejko says:

    What about the Thor rumors?

  2. Justin Boggan says:

    He’s off. The replacement composer hasn’t been named yet.

    He also removed “August: Osage County” from his website, too.

  3. ed says:

    He has a lot on his plate at the moment. Had a feeling about this from the beginning. Shame, because i like the unexpected. Expect someone like Alexandre Desplat to be confirmed. He always seems to take on projects at the last minute, and could handle a film of this scale. Just please – No Zimmer clones!…which will probably end up being the case.

  4. Justin Boggan says:

    What else is on his plate? Those two films were removed from his upcoming projects list and it’s already comfirmed one has been replaced (I expect we’ll find the other score has been replaced, too), and “the Fifth Estate” is the only current project, with another film coming up a little later.

    Not much.

    • ed says:

      As far as i’m aware at this time, Burwell has Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Anomalisa’ and written some pieces for Spike Jonze’s ‘Her’ – but the latter has gone quiet since. Maybe he was on too much of a tight schedule to commit himself to a project of that scale. I’m sure someone like Burwell is always in demand – these are probably half the projects that have come to light. Anyway, heres hoping it now falls into a competent pair of hands, who is not misguided the dreaded temp track.

  5. Macejko says:

    If the replacement won’t be Djawadi, Doyle or some newcomer, I’m not interested anymore.