The much anticipated film Oliver Stone’s Snowden is built to thrill! Â Edward Snowden is central character in a captivating film that captures the mind. Snowden made global news for his actions.
Edward Snowden is an American and naturalized Russian former computer intelligence consultant and whistleblower. In 2013, while working as an employee and subcontractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), Snowden leaked highly classified information about government surveillance programs. Some view him as a hero and whistleblower, while others see him as a grandiose narcissist and criminal. Snowden’s decision to leak the documents developed gradually, and he believed that exposing the abuses of government intelligence agencies was necessary. He is currently in exile in Russia and has been awarded the Right Livelihood Award. Snowden’s actions sparked a global conversation about privacy, surveillance, and government transparency.Â
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Snowden is a 2016 biographical thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald. Based on the books The Snowden Files (2014) by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus(2015) by Anatoly Kucherena, the film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) subcontractor and whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) beginning in 2013. In addition to Gordon-Levitt, the film features an ensemble cast including Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall-Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage. An international co-production of Germany, France, and the United States, principal photography began on February 16, 2015 in Munich.
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Snowden screened at San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2016, before premiering at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2016. The film was theatrically released in the United States on September 16, 2016, by Open Road Films and on September 22 in Germany.[6] It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Gordon-Levitt’s performance but criticized the direction. It was also a box office bomb, grossing $37.3 million worldwide against its $40 million budget.[2]
