The stars are aligning for Oliver Stone. The Wrap reported that Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto and Tom Wilkinson are poised to join the director’s Edward Snowden film.
Leo is in talks to Lauren Poitras, the documentary filmmaker who directed Citizenfour the acclaimed documentary about Snowden.
Quinto will play Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer and journalist who Snowden leaked sensitive information to.
Wilkinson is in negotiations to play Ewen MacAskill, a correspondent for the Guardian who helped break Snowden’s story.
As previously reported, Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Snowden and Shailene Woodley will play his girlfriend, Lindsay Mills.
The plot will focus on Snowden’s trek from Hawaii to Hong Kong, where he met with Poitras and Greenwald to deliver classified NSA documents. The film will draw from the books Time of the Octopus by Snowden’s Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena and The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by journalist Luke Harding. In addiditon to directing, Stone wrote the script.
Eric Kopeloff and Moritz Borman are producing the film.
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