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Sony To Make Movie of Edward Snowden Story

Posted by samzenpus on from the leaks-camera-action! dept.

wiredmikey (1824622) writes "Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the rights to the new book by journalist Glenn Greenwald about fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the studio said Wednesday. James Bond franchise producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli will make the movie version of 'No Place to Hide,' described as 'a political film that will resonate with today's moviegoers.' The book, subtitled 'Edward Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance State,' was just recently published in Britain by Hamish Hamilton and in the United States by Metropolitan Books."

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  1. Got it! by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Snowden just gave me a pre-release

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    1. Re:Got it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Watching the Sony movie installs a new backdoor onto your computer, to be sure you have the digital rights to all Sony movies.

  2. Reserved Judgement by GrahamCox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This could be a good opportunity to wake up the populace to the very real threat to their liberty that mass surveillance is. Or it could just be a stupid "action" thriller that focusses on the wrong thing entirely - Snowden's flight. I'll reserve judgement, but my bet would be on the latter.

    1. Re:Reserved Judgement by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because the last time I checked ... nothing has changed. Other than Snowden getting far more press coverage than he deserves.

      Thanks to Snowden people are focused on securing the internet. Old protocols are being re-examined, new ones are being developed to be secure from the start. We found out about numerous back doors and weakened systems. We learned of previously unknown security flaws. We found about about widespread criminality and abuse, and reacted to it.

      Companies that the NSA/GCHQ had hacked have made changes to secure themselves. Maybe not enough, but things have definitely improved and they will be looking to block spies in the future.

      Even if you think that is all bad, at the very least Snowden demonstrated how insecure the NSA is. If he could get all that information from such a lowly position then it is safe to assume that the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and a number of other agencies had already infiltrated and gathered it all anyway. Americans should know that their country's secrets have been widely and easily compromised.

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  3. If there was ever a reason to want Michael Bay... by Rinikusu · · Score: 5, Funny

    By itself, neat story, but not something I'd spend $15 to see. Now, add some gratuitous explosions and robots...

    VO: "They wanted him dead. He wanted to live."

    little girl holding a teddy bear: "Daddy, will the bad men come for you?"

    Jean Claude Van Damme as Edward Snowden: "No, sweetie... not with my army they won't..."

    Thousands of little robots come streaming out of his garage, destroying an FBI surveillance van...

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