Snowden gets new release date

Open Road has dated Joseph-Gordon Levitt starrer “Snowden” for May 13 next year in the U.S., five months after its original Christmas release.

The biopic, directed by Oliver Stone, had been moved off a Christmas Day release last month by Open Road.

The film, which also stars Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson and Timothy Olyphant, is about Edward Snowden, the infamous government whistleblower — or traitor, depending on your viewpoint — who leaked classified documents and information to the media.

Moritz Borman is producing with Eric Kopeloff and Philip Schulz-Deyle. Stone is directing from a script he co-wrote with Kieran Fitzgerald, based on Luke Harding's book “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man” and “Time of the Octopus,” written by Snowden's Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena.

Source: Deadline