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  • Shailene Woodley, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Start Filming ‘Snowden’

    Shailene Woodley and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were both spotted on location in Washington, D.C. on Monday, when filming began for Snowden. The biopic stars Gordon-Levitt as SNA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Shailene Woodley plays his girlfriend, Lindsay Mills.

    Edward Snowden first made headlines back in 2013 for releasing documents detailing two NSA surveillance programs that were authorized by Congress. He strongly believed these programs were impinging on Americans’ freedoms. He has since been granted political asylum in Russia.

    Snowden is being directed by Oliver Stone, and in addition to Shailene Woodley and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, also stars Nicolas Cage, Scott Eastwood, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, Joely Richardson, and Timothy Olyphant.

    Woodley and Gordon-Levitt were seen walking by the Washington Monument on Monday.

    Shailene Woodley is, of course, known for several award-winning film roles including that of Hazel Grace Lancaster in The Fault in Our Stars and Beatrice “Tris” Prior in Divergent and Insurgent.

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred on 3rd Rock from the Sun on TV, and has appeared in films including The Dark Knight Rises.

    What’s your take on Shailene Woodley and Joseph Gordon-Levitt portraying Edward Snowden and Lindsay Mills in Snowden?

    The film is set to hit theaters nationwide on Christmas Day 2015.

  • Here’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden

    Today, Joseph Gordon-Levitt posted the very first photo of him as NSA leaker Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone’s upcoming film Snowden.

    Filming has just begun on the project.

    “I was surprised when I first learned this about Snowden–that he enlisted in the US Army in 2004. He wanted to go fight in Iraq, but during basic training at Fort Benning, he broke both of his legs and received an administrative discharge. After that, he was still determined to serve his country (love him or hate him, you gotta admit the guy’s strong-willed) and so he ended up getting a job at the CIA, which is where his career in Intelligence began,” said Gordon-Levitt.

    “Today’s scenes felt like a really good way to start this shoot. It was hard, but of course, nowhere near as hard as real basic training. And me, I’m just honored and excited to be doing a soldier sequence with Oliver. I keep saying to myself: ‘fuck, this guy directed Platoon!’”

    Post by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

    Gordon-Levitt leads a star-studded cast, including Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, Timothy Olyphant, and last but certainly not least, Nicolas Cage. The movie is based on two different books, to which Stone acquired the rights – The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man, by journalist Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus, by Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena.

    Open Road Films just announced the film’s release date last week – Christmas, 2015.