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Jeremy Renner May Play Julian Assange

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Ready the hairpiece! Deadline reports that Jeremy Renner is interested in playing Julian Assange for a WikiLeaks movie set up at DreamWorks; what’s more, Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn) may direct. After playing a government agent tasked with keeping secrets in Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, The Avengers, and The Bourne Supremacy, this role would certainly provide Renner with a fun little flip. (So would the hairpiece.)

Jeremy Renner May Play Julian Assange