‘Snowden’ Director Oliver Stone Accuses Modern Hollywood of ‘McCarthy Era’ Self-Censorship (Exclusive Video)
‘Snowden’ Director Oliver Stone Accuses Modern Hollywood of ‘McCarthy Era’ Self-Censorship (Exclusive Video)
Firebrand filmmaker Oliver Stone said that every major Hollywood studio turned down “Snowden,” his new film about the NSA employee who leaked thousands of confidential documents and revealed mass government data gathering domestically and abroad.
The film, which screens on Friday evening at the Toronto Film Festival, stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden, who now lives as a political exile in Russia.
[...] even with the actor attached he could not get studio financing.
Ultimately, the indie distributor Open Road stepped in, said Stone, “but it was basically European money, German and French that made the movie.”
It’s a chilling effect, they’re scared, they don’t know what’s going to happen.
Stone also weighed in on the presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
“Neither of them have discussed Mr. Snowden, the surveillance state, neither of them have discussed the environmental crisis we’re in, nor the wars we’re in –= we’re in four or five wars,” Stone said.
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