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1. ... Although the telemovie - hailed as Channel 10's 2012 "white knight" by critics

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Tue Oct 9, 2012, 07:37 AM

Oct 2012

following the network's recent string of flops - was inspired by the 1997 book Underground, which followed the crimes of an elite group of hackers in which only one chapter was devoted to Julian Assange and little could be uncovered about his formative years.

Writer-director Robert Connolly said in an interview earlier this month his film was a "hypothesised" look at what the WikiLeaks rogue was like as a teenager ...

"Because only a small amount of the book was about (Assange) we just had to use that as the facts and fill the drama around it ...

Williams unwraps Assange mystery
October 08, 2012 7:45PM
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/williams-unwraps-assange-mystery/story-e6frfmyi-1226490929630

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