Oliver Stone to make Snowden film

London: Oliver Stone is to make a film about fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, based on a book by a British journalist, it was announced on Monday.

Luke Harding, the author of The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World's Most Wanted Man, said on Twitter that the US film-maker has bought the movie rights to the book.

Harding, who writes for British newspaper The Guardian, said Stone would write and direct the film with his long-term producing partner Moritz Borman.

"I'm thrilled and delighted," the journalist said.

AFP