"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 (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) 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.
Woodley is tipped to play the role of Snowden's girlfriend in the film.
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. Kucherena's book js based on the Russian lawyer's time with Snowden while he waited in limbo at the Moscow Airport before the Russian government decided to grant him asylum.
Filming aims to begin in January 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.
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