Oliver Stone Plots Movie About NSA Leaker Edward Snowden

Oliver Stone and his producing partner Moritz Borman have thrown their hats in the ring and will make a movie about Edward Snowden, the former systems administrator for the CIA and a counterintelligence trainer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who later worked for the National Security Agency and then made public thousands of classified documents, an act which has been called the most significant leak in U.S. history since the release of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg.

Stone and Borman bought screen rights to The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World’s Most Wanted Man, a book by Guardian journalist Luke Harding that’s published by Guardian Faber. Stone will write and direct the film based on Harding’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting of the disclosures provided by Snowden. It’ll be mounted as a European co-production.