Joseph Gordon-Levitt will perform the role of Edward Snowden

The actor has reportedly in agreement to take the lead role within the nsa whistle blower film regarding Edward Snowden. though the negotiations haven't however begun, each Gordon-Levitt and Snowden are keen on creating it happen. Apparently, the assembly on The Snowden Files (the movie is titled after the book) is predicted to start out late in 2014 or in early in 2015.The film is written and directed by Oliver Stone and can be supported 2 books, The Snowden Files: the within Story of the World’s number one Man and Time of the Octopus. it's illustrious that Oliver Stone recently picked up the screen rights to the latter book when obtaining the previous in june.

Everyone is aware of that Edward Snowden’s revelations upraised the lid on the observe of the mass government police work, that sparked a worldwide furor. the former NSA contractor has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, that was then extended for one more couple years, however Snowden still faces a 30-year jail sentence if he returns to the us.


The Snowden Files movie may compete with a rival project called No Place to hide when the book by glenn Greenwald. The latter is that the freelance journalist who received thousands of classified documents from Edward a year ago. No Place to cover is being delivered to cinemas by James Bond producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, however it looks that the Stone version can probably to arrive on the massive screen initial.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 33, is an actor who has with success combined turns in critically acclaimed genre fare like Rian Johnson’s looper and tender film The Dark Knight Rises with the roles in indie comedy drama fare, together with 50-50, (500) Days of Summer and Don Jon. The latter was even directed by him. additionally, Gordon-Levitt can play the tightrope creative person Philippe Petit in forthcoming biopic The Walk, regarding his productive crossing of the globe Trade Center’s skyscraper in August 1974.

As for the director of the new motion-picture show, Oliver Stone has created variety of biographic political movies, together with the one regarding the Kennedy assassination (JFK), the Bush administration’s “war on terror” (W), the Vietnam conflict (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth), and also the Watergate scandal break-in (Nixon).