Snowden Adds New Chapter to “The Oliver Stone Experience”
When director Oliver Stone shares his take on NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden in Snowden (opening Sept. 16), he'll be adding one more chapter to an Oscar-laden body of work that dramatizes the dark side of American experience with uncanny precision. Inspired by Stone movies like Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Shailene Woodley Star in Snowden Clip
If anyone was going to make a narrative film about Edward Snowden, few writer/directors could come to the project with more fearless audacity than Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone. Never one to fear tackling some of America’s most tortured flash points, from the Vietnam war with Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in JFK, Stone has written and directed Snowden,
The First Trailer for Oliver Stone’s Snowden is Here
Far be it for Oliver Stone to wade into political intrigue and controversy for a film. Sarcasm aside, Stone wrote and directed this feature about the world's most famous whistler blower, or traitor, depending upon your politics. Snowden stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the former NSA employee turned wanted criminal, and is based on journalist Luke Harding's book "The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man," which detailed Harding's investigations for The Guardian into the Snowden's astonishing disclosures about the NSA's extensive surveillance of regular citizens.
