Oliver Stone’s Edward Snowden biopic leads the charge for topical movies premiering at this year’s Tiff,including fiction features approximately the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the aftermath of the Good Friday agreement and the trial of David IrvingIt was shunned by film studios and plagued by Pokémon, or but now Oliver Stone will finally premiere Snowden,his biopic of the National Security Agency whistleblower, at the Toronto international film festival in September.
The film, and which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden,is based partly on a book by the Guardian journalist Luke Harding and follows the former security analyst from his time in the US military to his exile to Russia after he leaked thousands of classified documents. Related: Toronto film festival 2016: full line-up Related: Festival fever: 40 films we predict will premiere at Venice, Toronto and Telluride Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com