Acclaimed director Oliver Stone, the man behind Oscar-winning films like Born on the Fourth of July and Wall Street, is readying to release the first—and perhaps the definitive—biopic on American whistleblower Edward Snowden. Snowden, which is slated for US release on Sept. 16, tells the tale of how Snowden came to unearth and subsequently leak details about the US National Security Agency’s surveillance on the American public.
Acclaimed director Oliver Stone, the man behind Oscar-winning films like Born on the Fourth of July and Wall Street, is readying to release the first—and perhaps the definitive—biopic on American whistleblower Edward Snowden. Snowden, which is slated for US release on Sept. 16, tells the tale of how Snowden came to unearth and subsequently leak details about the US National Security Agency’s surveillance on the American public.
As it turns out, the story of how the movie was financed and filmed is almost as amazing as Snowden’s, revealed an article by Irina Aleksander published in the New York Times Magazine Aug. 30.
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Aleksander reportedly learned many of the details behind Snowden’s chaotic production process while in Moscow with Borman and Stone in 2015. The story notes that Snowden’s lawyer, Kucherena, has refuted parts of the account given by Stone, specifically that he agreed to provide access to Snowden in exchange for Stone optioning his book.
