Deadline reports that with the hit FX series Justified entering its sixth and final season, Olyphant has lined up the still-untitled film about Edward Snowden as his next project after production ends on the celebrated series.
If all goes well with Olyphant’s negotiations for the role, he’ll join a cast that already includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Looper), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Tom Wilkinson (Selma), Zachary Quinto (Star Trek), and Shailene Woodley (Divergent). The report indicates that Olyphant will play a CIA agent who befriended Snowden before he fled to Russia.
Stone will write and direct the film, which is based on the books The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden’s lawyer in Russia. Stone bought the film rights to the latter novel back in June 2014 ahead of its publication.
Production of the film is expected to begin soon in Munich, Germany.
