{"id":3415,"date":"2015-06-30T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2015-06-30T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T23:30:00","slug":"snowden-trailer-oliver-stone-and-joseph-gordon-levitt-tackle-one-of-americas-most-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/snowden-trailer-oliver-stone-and-joseph-gordon-levitt-tackle-one-of-americas-most-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Snowden&#039; Trailer: Oliver Stone and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Tackle One of America&#039;s Most Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/snowden-movie-trailer\/18742?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\">Peter Hall<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/snowden-movie-trailer\/18742?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201503\/SNOWDEN_1st_LookSMALL.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago the only people who would recognize the name Edward Snowden were his friends and family. Today he&#8217;s widely recognized as the guy who didn&#8217;t just blow the lid off of the American government&#8217;s internal surveillance programs, but who continues to blow the lid off things the American people don&#8217;t know their government is up to. He was, and still is, a bit controversial, to say the least. And as we all know, Hollywood revels in controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The superb, must-see Snowden film <em>Citizen Four<\/em> already won the Oscar this year for Best Documentary, but don&#8217;t expect the cinematic exploration of one of the most important political figures in recent memory to end there. Snowden&#8217;s life is also getting the dramatic treatment, from none other than <em>JFK<\/em>, <em>Born on the Fourth of July<\/em>, and <em>Wall Street<\/em> director <strong>Oliver Stone<\/strong>. <strong>Joseph Gordon-Levitt<\/strong> will be playing the NSA contractor in the film, and today we&#8217;ve got our first teaser trailer for it.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer doesn&#8217;t actually offer us a look at Gordon-Levitt in the movie (you can see him in the above still, though), but it does set the ominous, conspiratorial tone for what will probably be one of this winter&#8217;s most talked about movies.<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><em>Snowden<\/em>, also starring Shailene Woodley, Scott Eastwood, Melissa Leo, and Nicolas Cage, hits theaters on December 25, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterSHall\">Follow @PeterSHall <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MoviesDotCom\">Follow @MoviesDotCom<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/snowden-movie-trailer\/18742?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"&#039;Snowden&#039; Trailer: Oliver Stone and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Tackle One of America&#039;s Most Wanted\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/snowden-movie-trailer\/18742?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/snowden-movie-trailer\/18742?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/MDCsite\/images\/featured\/201503\/SNOWDEN_1st_LookSMALL.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago the only people who would recognize the name Edward Snowden were his friends and family. Today he&#8217;s widely recognized as the guy who didn&#8217;t just blow the lid off of the American government&#8217;s internal surveillance programs, but who continues to blow the lid off things the American people don&#8217;t know their government is up to. He was, and still is, a bit controversial, to say the least. And as we all know, Hollywood revels in controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The superb, must-see Snowden film <em>Citizen Four<\/em> already won the Oscar this year for Best Documentary, but don&#8217;t expect the cinematic exploration of one of the most important political figures in recent memory to end there. Snowden&#8217;s life is also getting the dramatic treatment, from none other than <em>JFK<\/em>, <em>Born on the Fourth of July<\/em>, and <em>Wall Street<\/em> director <strong>Oliver Stone<\/strong>. <strong>Joseph Gordon-Levitt<\/strong> will be playing the NSA contractor in the film, and today we&#8217;ve got our first teaser trailer for it.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer doesn&#8217;t actually offer us a look at Gordon-Levitt in the movie (you can see him in the above still, though), but it does set the ominous, conspiratorial tone for what will probably be one of this winter&#8217;s most talked about movies.<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><em>Snowden<\/em>, also starring Shailene Woodley, Scott Eastwood, Melissa Leo, and Nicolas Cage, hits theaters on December 25, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterSHall\">Follow @PeterSHall <\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MoviesDotCom\">Follow @MoviesDotCom<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service &#8211; if this is your content and you&#8217;re reading it on someone else&#8217;s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}