WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attends a news conference at the Geneva Press Club in Geneva, in this November 4, 2010 file photo.

      Film producers Barry Josephson and Michelle Krumm have optioned the rights to film The Most Dangerous Man in the World, a biography on the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange written by Australian journalist Andrew Fowler.

      Josephson is producing under the Josephson Entertainment while Krumm,is producing via her MK Productions banner.

      Currently, there is no writer assigned to do a film version of the biography that spans from Assange’s childhood to when he established Wikileaks in 2006. Wikileaks is the controversial website with the goal of creating open governments that vaulted Assange into the public eye when he published 251,000 U.S. diplomatic cables in November and afterwards was accused in Sweden of sexual offenses.

      He agreed to sell the publishing rights to his life story in December for more than over £1million to pay for legal bills and it was expected that a deal from Hollywood would soon come next. The book written by Fowler will be released by Melbourne University Publishing Ltd. this year.

      Assange was born in Townsville, Queensland, and grew up on Magnetic Island.

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