Nicolas Cage is a U.S. intelligence officer in the new Oliver Stone film on Edward Snowden. Joseph Gordon-Levitt also stars.
NewsNicolas Cage has not been in a strong film for a while, yet given the subject matter of his newest project, this is hopefully about to change. Indeed, Cage has been cast in the new Oliver Stone film, Snowden.
On the heels of Edward Snowden’s story striking Oscar gold last night, when the Snowden documentary Citizenfour took home the statuette for Best Documentary Feature, Stone’s narrative account on the man is taking increasing shape.
Cage has been cast in the role of a former U.S. intelligence officer that becomes entangled in the Snowden case. This further builds an impressive cast that is led by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the titular role of the man who leaked classified information about NSA wiretapping citizens. The cast also includes Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, Joely Richardson, and Timothy Olyphant.
Principal photography on the film is already underway. This will mark the next chapter in Stone’s vision of American history (with emphasis on the Stone) that already includes classics like JFK and Nixon. Hopefully, Snowden is closer to those films (though maybe with more accuracy) and less like his more recent entries, which include World Trade Center and W. Incidentally, 2005’s World Trade Center was Stone’s last collaboration with Nicolas Cage.
