Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Star As Edward Snowden In Oliver Stone’s ‘The Snowden Files’

Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Star As Edward Snowden In Oliver Stone’s ‘The Snowden Files’
Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Star As Edward Snowden In Oliver Stone’s ‘The Snowden Files’

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt of “The Dark Knight Rises” and “Inception” fame has agreed to play National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in director Oliver Stone’s “The Snowden Files.”

Variety reports Stone offered the part to Gordon-Levitt, who accepted, though negotiations haven’t been formalized.

Stone is writing and directing the film set to depict the enormous intelligence leak of national security documents Snowden started last year based on two books he has secured options for — “The Snowden Files” by Guardian journalist Luke Harding and “Time of the Octopus” by Anatoly Kucherena — Snowden’s Russian lawyer. (RELATED: Oliver Stone Will Direct ‘The Snowden Files’)

The film is scheduled to enter production in late 2014 or early 2015.

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