"JFK" and "Platoon" director Oliver Stone has plans to adapt author Luke Harding's book. Harding was a journalist at the British paper The Guardian which was involved in the early revelations about the material Edward Snowden leaked to the media a year ago. Charged with espionage, Snowden exiled himself to Russia where he's been living ever since. The secrets dealt with the U.S. government's intelligence-gathering operations, especially the NSA.
Sources tell Variety that Stone has offered the part to the actor and that he has agreed to do it. Though talks have not begun, both sides want a deal to happen.
Stone Eric Kopeloff and Moritz Borman will produce the film and have closed a deal with Snowden’s Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, for the film rights to his novel "Time Of The Octopus" as a second source for the film.
Filming aims to begin in December in Munich.
The pic is also in competition with a rival Snowden film, an adaptation of Glenn Greenwald's just released book "No Place to Hide" that James Bond film series producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli are attached to produce.
JGL recently wrapped Robert Philippe Petit' biopic "The Walk" and is currently reuniting with Seth Rogen on the as yet Untitled Christmas Eve film .
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