Oliver Stone’s Snowden Film
Film director Oliver Stone has said he “stayed off grid” during the making of his new biopic on Edward Snowden over concerns that hackers could target the film.
The double Oscar winner used encrypted messages to communicate with colleagues during the filming of Snowden, which tells the story of how the NSA whistleblower leaked details of mass government surveillance in 2013.
At the movie’s premiere in Toronto, Oliver said: “The NSA is worldwide, the ability to intercept, to harm. Anything could happen. We’ve still not opened the film. It could get hacked tomorrow.
The film-maker also revealed that making Snowden had a “chilling effect” on his own use of social media and the Internet.
Oliver, who won best director Oscars for Platoon and Born On The Fourth Of July, also urged young people to limit their use of social media. “As they get older they may realise the important of privacy,” he said.
Snowden is to be screened at the London Film Festival on October 15.
