New 'Snowden' Clip: Edward Snowden Is a Hollywood-Style Super Genius
There are few things Oliver Stone loves more than political button-pushing, and he’ll be back at it again this September with Snowden. His biopic will focus on the former CIA employee who leaked classified National Security Agency information in 2013 and has since been evading prosecution in Russia. In a new clip from the film above, moviegoers will get a pretty good idea of the tone the director is taking.
In the brief, one-minute scene, Rhys Ifans’s government administrator oversees a new group of computer-whiz recruits, giving them a complicated task — involving creating, breaking down, and then reconstituting a secure network — that should require hours of toil. Wouldn’t you know it, though, that Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Edward Snowden — with his distinctive, jarring accent — completes the assignment in a brisk, genius-level 38 minutes.
On the heels of its prior trailers, this Snowden clip again suggests that Stone’s latest will imagine its protagonist’s life story in decidedly Hollywood-esque terms, as a thriller about an unassuming mastermind looking to expose a government conspiracy. Co-starring Shailene Woodley, Timothy Olyphant, Melissa Leo, Tom Wilkinson, Zachary Quinto, and Nicolas Cage, the film will have its official world premiere at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival (it had a special sneak preview at this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con) before debuting in theaters nationwide on Sept. 16.
Watch a ‘Snowden’ trailer:
