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Benedict Cumberbatch will star as Vote Leave director Dominic Cummings
Benedict Cumberbatch is to play the person who masterminded the Vote Leave marketing campaign throughout the Brexit referendum in a new Channel four docudrama.
The actor will play Vote Leave's marketing campaign director Dominic Cummings.
The two-hour drama, which has a working title of Brexit, has been written by political dramatist James Graham.
Channel four stated it will "explore the myriad tactics employed to swing one of the most surprising referendum results in living memory".
Vote Leave was the official "out" marketing campaign throughout the 2016 EU referendum and was backed by cupboard ministers together with Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.
Most of the drama's motion will happen throughout the build-up to the vote and "will explore the anatomy of a modern data-driven election campaign, and the divisive figures driving it from the shadows", Channel four stated.
The broadcaster stated the drama would set out "not to be an analysis of who was right and who was wrong, but rather is the story of how it happened, and why".
Mr Cummings was one of many referendum's main strategists, and has stated the "out" marketing campaign most likely wouldn't have received with out the well-known bus pledging an additional £350m a week for the NHS.
He hasn't commented on Channel four's plans, however he has been at loggerheads with Channel four News over their reporting of Vote Leave's spending throughout the referendum.
The group's spending is presently being investigated by the Electoral Commission. Vote Leave has additionally come beneath scrutiny for its Facebook marketing campaign after it enlisted a knowledge agency which will have improperly acquired customers' knowledge. Vote Leave has denied any wrongdoing.
Dramatist Graham penned the script for Coalition, a 2015 Channel four docudrama in regards to the aftermath of the 2010 basic election. He additionally created political stage dramas together with This House, Labour of Love and Privacy.
Graham stated: "I am so excitednot to point out a little nervousto have this opportunity to try to get beneath the pores and skin of what occurred throughout that historic vote.
"I hope by going behind the scenes of the campaign, we're able to interrogate the consequences of what happened during these eight weeks that have changed the country forever."
Graham's retelling of the EU referendum is probably going to show contentious, partly as a result of disputes about how the marketing campaign was carried out are nonetheless raging.
Mr Cummings has been summoned to seem in entrance of the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee on Tuesday to reply questions on Vote Leave's spending, use of private knowledge and co-ordination with different pro-Brexit teams.
But he has accused the MPs of being extra in grandstanding than uncovering the reality, and has stated he won't give proof to the committee "under any circumstances".