Wild Bunch announced today the company has acquired international rights to Oliver Stone‘s untitled film about Edward Snowden, which will star Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the leading role. The film will be an adaptation of “Time of the Octopus“, written by Snowden’s Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, and Luke Harding‘s “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man” with pre-production currently taking place in Munich and principal photography set to begin in January 2015.
Meanwhile, Stone has told RIA.ru (via The Playlist) he’s met with Snowden to discuss the pic while also telling the site, “I would like to make a documentary [about Vladimir Putin]… We had no plans to make a movie [a scripted feature] on Putin. I would love to do an interview with him… because he represents a different point of view that Americans don’t hear.”
To learn a little more about Snowden and some of the events the film will cover you really ought to seek out the new Laura Poitras documentary Citizenfour (read my review here), which offers a complete look at Snowden’s path to becoming one of the most noted whistelblowers in American history.
