Joseph Gordon-Levitt Being Sought to Play Edward Snowden — collider.com

Oliver Stone, eager to be on the pulse of current events even if he doesn’t know how the pulse is beating, is set to write and direct a movie based on NSA leaker Edward Snowden.  The film will be based on the book Time of the Octopus, which was written by Snowden’s lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, and “is considered the closest thing to a documented account of the events since Snowden first released the documents.”  Americans were shocked at the news that their communications were being “monitored” (even though the news was widely misconstrued), and then went back to putting their every thought on Facebook and Twitter.

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