Nicolas Cage has joined Oliver Stone’s Snowden.
Principal photography on the drama about the NSA whistleblower, the subject of Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour, is currently underway in Germany. Joseph Gordon-Levitt has already been confirmed as playing the title role of Edward Snowden, with Shailene Woodley as his girlfriend. Cage will play a former U.S. intelligence officer.
The thriller is based on Luke Harding’s book The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man, which chronicles Snowden’s move from Hawaii to Hong Kong, where he handed over the NSA documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald, and Time of the Octopus, the upcoming novel from the whistleblower’s Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, telling the story about his time waiting for the government in Moscow to grant his asylum.
