The first trailer for Bill Condon's "The Fifth Estate," starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileaks icon Julian Assange, has landed. The film will chart the rise of Assange's notorious watchdog website and his status as a highly controversial international figure. Watch below. Based on Daniel Domscheit-Berg's book "Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website" and David Leigh and Luke Harding's "Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy," the film also stars Daniel Bruhl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney, among others. Scribe Josh Singer penned the adaptation. Here's a detailed synopsis. The film hits theaters on October 18, in prime time for Oscar season. Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to.