'It's very much a 1984 world': Oliver Stone on making the film Snowden

By Jenny Cooney Carrillo
Updated September 9 2016 - 11:33am, first published September 4 2016 - 12:15am
The core of the film centres around a tense six days inside a Hong Kong hotel room. Photo: Jurgen Olczyk
The core of the film centres around a tense six days inside a Hong Kong hotel room. Photo: Jurgen Olczyk
Few filmmakers have been as controversial as Oliver Stone. Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Few filmmakers have been as controversial as Oliver Stone. Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Edward Snowden and Shailene Woodley his girlfriend Lindsay Mills. Photo: Gray Pictures
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Edward Snowden and Shailene Woodley his girlfriend Lindsay Mills. Photo: Gray Pictures
"Ed may go down in history as one of those guys who actually made a difference to his time," says director Oliver Stone. Photo: Jurgen Olczyk
"Ed may go down in history as one of those guys who actually made a difference to his time," says director Oliver Stone. Photo: Jurgen Olczyk
The film <i>Snowden</i> centres on a tense six days inside a Hong Kong hotel room with Edward Snowden, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (pictured).  Photo: Jurgen Olczyk
The film <i>Snowden</i> centres on a tense six days inside a Hong Kong hotel room with Edward Snowden, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt (pictured). Photo: Jurgen Olczyk

Oliver Stone has made a career of mapping out pivotal moments in American culture to bring us politically charged films such as Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Nixon, The People vs. Larry Flynt and JFK. But when the 70-year-old Oscar-winning director became interested in making a movie about Edward Snowden – the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in US intelligence history – he realised the stakes were much higher.

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