Nicolas Cage Is Back To Doing These Types Of Movies — cinemablend.com

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cage has been cast as a yet-to-be-named "former U.S. Intelligence Office" in the upcoming film titled, Snowden. The movie will reportedly be inspired by a two different biographies about Snowden’s much-maligned muckraking: The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and the yet-to-be-released Time of the Octopus. The latter book was penned by Anatoly Kucherena, the Russian lawyer who fought against Snowden’s extradition to the U.S, and chronicles the time period in which he was waiting in Russia for asylum. Director, Oliver Stone will co-pen the screenplay with Kieran Fitzgerald, who co-wrote 2014’s The Homesman, a western-set pioneer drama with Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank.

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