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Nearly a year ago WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pled guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets, and aFter doing this he walked…no jail term.

U.S. authorities had been trying to imprison Assange for ages (how many years was he holed up in London’s Ecuador embassy?), but the saga came to a surprise conclusion when the white-haired Assange, 52, entered his plea in a U.S. district court in Saipan, the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands. Assange didn’t want to risk entering the continental United States, and the Saipan authorities decided to accomodate his wish.

And now Eugene Jarecki‘s doc about Assange, The Six Billion Dollar Man, which pulled out of Sundance ’25 due to “unexpected developments” in the saga, is apparently going to debut in Cannes. Speaking as a longtime fan of this partiuclar Jarecki (The King, Why We Fight, Reagan, the Trials of henry Kissinger) I will be at this Croisette screening with bells on

Why did Jarecki yanks his Assnge doc out of Sundance? “The truth is, significant recent and unexpected developments have emerged at the heart of the story which, if not incorporated in the version for Sundance, would not represent a finished film,” Jarecki said in a statement. “Sundance has shaped my career and been a cornerstone of my journey — only something of this magnitude could make me withdraw.”