Oliver Stone to Tackle Competing Edward Snowden Biopic

No movie project about a major newsmaker is complete these days without another movie project about that major newsmaker.

Just ask Julian Assange, whose Wikileaks saga is the subject of 10 imdb entries, including two theatrical releases; or Steve Jobs, whose legacy has already suffered the Ashton Kutcher treatment and will soon be the focus of a major motion picture from Sony.

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Now Sony finds itself a step behind in yet another footrace, this time on a potential Edward Snowden movie.

Two weeks after Sony announced it had optioned rights to No Place to Hide, the new book by former Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, the paper reported that Oliver Stone will direct a “big-budget” adaptation of The Snowden Files, an account of the NSA scandal written by Guardian journalist Luke Harding. Read more...