Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson
The co-bosses of Eon Productions, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, are slated to produce a movie about NSA leaker Edward Snowden, entertainment news websites reported including VARIETY.COM and DEADLINE: HOLLYWOOD.
Sony optioned “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State,” a book by journalist Glenn Greenwald, for Wilson and Broccoli to produce, according to the websites.
Several studios were seeking to make the book into a movie, The New York Times reported in October 2013. The Times, at that time, identified Barbara Broccoli as being part of the Sony effort. Sony’s Columbia Pictures has released the last three Bond movies and will do so again with 2015’s Bond 24.
Wilson and Broccoli have pursued a number of non-Bond film projects in recent years. It’s part of a new normal at Eon, where the principals want longer breaks between 007 movies to work on other projects.
Filed under: James Bond Films | Tagged: Barbara Broccoli, Edward Snowden, Eon Productions, Glenn Greenwald, James Bond Films, Michael G. Wilson, Sony, Variety |
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do the eon film producers really believe its not too early to make a
movie about Edward snowden. adapted from the book? reason’s being
he’s still a fugitive on the run from the American government.
so theres no conclusion to this affair until he’s captured and convicted
for crimes against the state. unless their going to make a fictional action
movie about him.?
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