This June 9, 2013 photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden in Hong Kong. The National Security Agency is telling Congress that an agency employee resigned after admitting to investigators that he gave Snowden a digital key that allowed him access to classified materials. Snowden has said he did not steal […]
Credit: Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras
Everybody’s favorite hipster Joseph Gordon-Levitt is officially confirmed to take on the role of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in a forthcoming film by Oliver Stone (previously of “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” and “Savages”).
The Guardian reports that filming will start in Munich in January. Stone says the screenplay was adapted from two books: “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man” by Luke Harding and “Time of the Octopus” by Anatoly Kucherena.
This report comes a mere month after the US premiere of CITIZENFOUR, a documentary by Laura Poitras covering the NSA spying scandal.
And now, we’ll take bets on who gets to play Snowden’s girlfriend, Lindsay Mills.
➤ Joseph Gordon-Levitt confirmed as Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone NSA film
Image via AP, Guardian
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