Joseph Gordon-Levitt eyes Snowden role in Oliver Stone movie

Oliver Stone seems to have found the man to play NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in his next pic “The Snowden Files.”

He has offered the part to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and that the actor has agreed to do it, Variety reports, citing its sources.

Though negotiations have not yet begun, both sides want the deal to happen.

Stone is writing and directing and will produce with Eric Kopeloff and Moritz Borman.


Snowden’s story is now familiar to most: the former U.S. intelligence analyst released more classified documents than anyone since


Daniel Ellsberg’s leaking of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War. He has been on the run ever since.


Stone acquired the rights to the book “Time of the Octopus” by Snowden’s lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, which is considered the closest thing to a documented account of the events since Snowden first released the documents.


If the deal is made, production would likely begin at the end of the year or in the early first quarter of 2015.


Read more on the Variety website.