Edward Snowden Movie: Oliver Stone Eyes Joseph Gordon-Levitt - 'hitRECord' Emmy Winner To Play CIA Leaker

Director Oliver Stone's next project is a film entitled The Snowden Files, which is of course about the computer specialist that leased information about the NSA and the CIA who has since been seeking asylum internationally, Edward Snowden. Stone is reportedly in talks with hitRECord creator and Hollywood star Joseph Gordon-Levitt to lead this film.

Deadline reports:

Stone and [producing partner Moritz] Borman have a deal with Snowden's Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, for film rights to his novel Time Of The Octopus. That is the basis for the story of an American whistle blower who heads to Russia and the back and forth between the leaker and his lawyer as he waits while that country considers his request for asylum. Stone and Borman also bought the screen rights to The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World's Most Wanted Man, a book by Guardian journalist Luke Harding that's published by Guardian Faber.

Gordon-Levitt just wrapped the Robert Zemeckis-directed The Walk in which he portrays tightrope walker Philippe Petit, the subject of the documentary Man on Wire. As we'll see in the film, Petit and a group of collaborators set up a tightrope across the Twin Towers in the 1970s and ... well we don't want to give too much away!

Adding this Snowden movie to his resume would come as no surprise for the increasingly in-demand star. What do you think of this new casting speculation? Let us know what you think of this movie and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's potential casting in the comments section below!