First Look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Oliver Stone’s SNOWDEN
A couple photos have surfaced giving us out first look at Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Oliver Stone’s upcoming political thriller Snowden. Nicolas Cage has also joined Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley in the new production.
The movie is based on the true story of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is being played by Gordon-Levitt. Cage will play a former U.S. intelligence officer. It great to see Cage taking on a more serious role again. Cage can be a great actor when he wants to be, hopefully he brings his A-game to this movie.
The thriller is based on the book by Luke Harding called The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man. It chronicles the events of “Snowden's move from Hawaii to Hong Kong, where he handed over the NSA documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald, and Time of the Octopus, the upcoming novel from the whistleblower's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, telling the story about his time waiting for the government in Moscow to grant his asylum.”
Snowden is currently in production in Germany, and it will be released in the U.S. on December 25, 2015. Here’s a description of the book:
IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: “I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.”
What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the United States government. His whistleblowing has shaken the leaders of nations worldwide, and generated a passionate public debate on the dangers of global monitoring and the threat to individual privacy.
In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden’s astonishing story—from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Honolulu carrying a hard drive full of secrets, to the weeks of his secret-spilling in Hong Kong, to his battle for asylum and his exile in Moscow. For the first time, Harding brings together the many sources and strands of the story—touching on everything from concerns about domestic spying to the complicity of the tech sector—while also placing us in the room with Edward Snowden himself. The result is a gripping insider narrative—and a necessary and timely account of what is at stake for all of us in the new digital age.