Open Road Films says filming is now underway on Snowden, director Oliver Stone’s dramatic film based on the books The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to play Edward Snowden in the film co-written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald.
In addition to Gordon-Levitt, the confirmed cast includes Timothy Olyphant, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, and Joely Richardson. Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff, and Philip Schulz-Deyle are producing.
Open Road Films plans on releasing Snowden in theaters on December 25, 2015. Pathé Films will release the movie in France on December 30, 2015.
