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Oliver Stone to Direct New Movie on Snowden

HeadlineApr 28, 2016

And legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone is directing a new movie about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. This is a clip from the just-released trailer.

Edward Snowden: [played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt] “How is this all possible?”

NSA worker: “Think of it as a Google search, except instead of searching only what people make public, we’re also looking at everything they don’t—emails, chats, SMS, whatever.”

Snowden: “Yeah, but which people?”

NSA worker: “The whole kingdom, Snow White.”

Snowden: “The NSA is really tracking every cellphone in the world.”

Unidentified: “Most Americans don’t want freedom. They want security.”

Snowden: “Except people, they don’t even know they’ve made that bargain.”

Lindsay Mills: [played by Shailene Woodley] “Are they watching us?”

Snowden: “There’s something going on inside the government that’s really wrong, and I can’t ignore it.”

That’s a clip of Oliver Stone’s upcoming film, “Snowden.” Stone’s previous films include ”JFK,” “Nixon,” “Born on the Fourth of July” and “Platoon.”

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