WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange has written a letter to actor Benedict Cumberbatch to blast his film "The Fifth Estate."
The film, which tells the story behind the WikiLeaks scandal, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.
"I believe you are a good person, but I do not believe that this film is a good film," Assange wrote in the letter. "I do not believe it is going to be positive for me or the people I care about."
He also appealed to Cumberbatch and asked him to not support the film. He stated that Cumberbatch was used as a "hired gun" to "assassinate" truth.
"You will be used, as a hired gun, to assume the appearance of the truth in order to assassinate it," he wrote. "To present me as someone morally compromised and to place me in a falsified history. To create a work, not of fiction, but of debased truth."
"Your skills play into the hands of people who are out to remove me and WikiLeaks from the world...I believe that you should reconsider your involvement in this enterprise," he continued.
He also stated that he thought the film would ruin him and the "good people" that work with him.
"This film is going to bury good people doing good work, at exactly the time that the state is coming down on their heads," he said. "It is going to smother the truthful version of events, at a time when the truth is most in demand."
The site also released a statement attacking the validity of the film, according to Variety; the full letter can be seen on that same report.
The film got mixed reviews when it was screened at Toronto. It currently has a 41 percent aggregate score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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