Snowden (2015) is an American biographical political thriller directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald, and based on the books The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Scott Eastwood, Melissa Leo, Timothy Olyphant, Zachary Quinto,Nicolas Cage and Tom Wilkinson, Snowden is scheduled for North American theatrical release on Christmas day, 2015.