"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.

"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.

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.

Oliver Stone commented about the movie, "It's a very strange thing to do [a story about] an American man, and not be able to finance this movie in America. And that's very disturbing, if you think about its implications on any subject that is not overtly pro-American. They say we have freedom of expression; but thought is financed, and thought is controlled, and the media is controlled. This country is very tight on that, and there's no criticism allowed at a certain level. You can make movies about civil rights leaders who are dead, but it's not easy to make one about a current man."

Cast

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden
• Edward Snowden briefly portrays himself in a cameo
• Shailene Woodley as Lindsay Mills
• Melissa Leo as Laura Poitras
• Zachary Quinto as Glenn Greenwald
• Tom Wilkinson as Ewen MacAskill
• Scott Eastwood as Trevor James
• Logan Marshall-Green as Male Drone Pilot/"Catfish"
• Timothy Olyphant as CIA officer Geneva
• Ben Schnetzer as Gabriel Sol
• LaKeith Lee Stanfield as Patrick Haynes
• Rhys Ifans as Corbin O’Brian
• Nicolas Cage as Hank Forrester
• Joely Richardson as Janine Gibson
• Robert Firth as Dr. Stillwell
• Ben Chaplin as Robert Tibbo

Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden's Russian attorney and the author of the novel "Time of the Octopus", on which the screenplay is said to be partly based, plays a Russian diplomat in one of the Geneva scenes.

Thanks to Wikipedia for the full write-up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_(film)

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