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Oliver Stone to shoot Snowden flick in Bavaria

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- Principal photography for the film, which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the whistleblower, will kick off in Munich in February 2015

Oliver Stone to shoot Snowden flick in Bavaria
Director Oliver Stone

The Special Funding Programme for International Co-Productions in Bavaria is attracting a growing number of renowned directors and huge feature-film projects. Following Big Game [+see also:
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by Jalmari Helander, The Postcard Killings by Everardo Gout and The Happy Prince by Rupert Everett, multiple Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Oliver Stone (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, JFK) is coming to the region with his new picture. 

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The untitled project [+see also:
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is about the whistleblower Edward Snowden. Inspired by The Snowden Files by The Guardian journalist Luke Harding, the biopic is scripted by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald. In the film, the NSA employee flies from Hawaii to Hong Kong in order to tell the world about the NSA’s surveillance programme, which then turns him into one of the most wanted men in the world. 

The FFF Bayern is supporting the project with €1.6 million from the Special Funding Programme for International Co-Productions, which was launched in 2013. A huge part of the shoot, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Sin City 2, Lincoln, The Dark Knight Rises [+see also:
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, Inception) starring in the lead role, will take place on location in Munich, as well as in the Bavaria Filmstudio. Principal photography will begin in February next year. 

The political thriller is produced by Moritz Borman and Eric Kopeloff, of LA-based production outfit Onda Entertainment, and Philip Schulz-Deyle, of Germany’s KrautPack Entertainment in Grünwald. Additional shooting locations will include Hong Kong and the US. Wild Bunch is set to handle the world sales of the picture, which will be released by Pathé in France, Open Road in the US and Universum in Germany.

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