No Place To Hide: Edward Snowden, The NSA, And The U.S. Surveillance State” recounting the Pulitzer Prize winner’s ten-day trip to Hong Kong and interview with Snowden.
No word on what’s going on with either of those two movies, but Oliver Stone has found his own source material to adapt, that being Luke Harding‘s book “The Snowden Files, The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man with Stone already working on the screenplay and producer Moritz Borman fast-tracking it as a European co-production to start filming before the end of the year.
[amz asin=”B00I1ZKA56″ size=”small”]Harding, like Greenwald, is also a reporter at The Guardian and here’s how Amazon describes his book:
IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: “I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.”
What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the United States government. His whistleblowing has shaken the leaders of nations worldwide, and generated a passionate public debate on the dangers of global monitoring and the threat to individual privacy.
In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Snowden’s astonishing story–from the day he left his glamorous girlfriend in Honolulu carrying a hard drive full of secrets, to the weeks of his secret-spilling in Hong Kong, to his battle for asylum and his exile in Moscow. For the first time, Harding brings together the many sources and strands of the story–touching on everything from concerns about domestic spying to the complicity of the tech sector–while also placing us in the room with Edward Snowden himself. The result is a gripping insider narrative–and a necessary and timely account of what is at stake for all of us in the new digital age.
Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, was quoted by Variety saying, “The story of Edward Snowden is truly extraordinary, and the unprecedented revelations he brought to light have forever transformed our understanding of, and relationship with, government and technology. We’re delighted to be working with Oliver Stone and Moritz Borman on the film.”
Personally I don’t need to see Stone’s version of this story. Stone’s bias bleeds into his projects to the point a lot of the intrigue is lost. It’s fine when he’s tackling events that have more or less settled into their place in history, but if W. taught us anything, he’s no good when it comes to current events.
