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McAvoy drops out of WikiLeaks film

James McAvoy has dropped out of the Wikileaks movie
James McAvoy has dropped out of the Wikileaks movie

James McAvoy has dropped out of the Wikileaks movie.

The 33-year-old actor had been due to star in the biopic of the website's founder Julian Assange, but his commitments to the X-Men: Days of Future Past meant that he had to withdraw from the movie.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Inglourious Basterds actor Daniel Bruhl has already been hired to replace James in the project as Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

The film centres on a journalist, who caused embarrassment to world governments by leaking diplomatic cables around the world after launching WikiLeaks in 2006.

Meanwhile, Laura Linney is reportedly in talks to join the cast.

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