On Oct. 1, Virgil Films
& Entertainment will release to the domestic DVD market Aussie writer/director
Robert Connolly’s film adaptation of Suelette Dreyfus’ 1997 novel, “Underground:
Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier,” which has been
retitled for the screen as Underground: The Julian Assange Story.
With the new title in
place it doesn’t take too much imagination to figure out that this biopic takes
a look at the early life – and upbringing — of the editor-in-chief and founder
of WikiLeaks.
The story takes us to
suburban Melbourne, Australia in the late 1980s, with the Australian Federal
Police hunting for one of the world’s first computer hackers, going by the name
Mendax (Assange, played by newcomer Alex Williams), who had already hacked the
Pentagon and American military networks.
We follow Assange and his friends — the self-styled “International
Subversives” — who try to break into computer systems belonging to the most
powerful groups in the world using only home computers of the period (did we
actually find those things state-of-the-art back then!!!), while fighting with
each other (kids will be kids) and the detective charged with tracking them
down.
The film co-stars Oscar-nominee
Rachel Griffiths as his on-the-run mother (Muriel's Wedding, Hilary
and Jackie, as Brenda from Six Feed Under, etc.) and Anthony
LaPaglia as the technology-challenged police detective assigned to the case.
To download this week's
complete edition of the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
No comments:
Post a Comment