The Edward Snowden Movie

This is an open source intelligence broadcast.Transcript:It was recently announced that the story of former CIA and NSA contractor Edward Snowden is to be made into a Hollywood movie. The real life story, or at least the version told by Glenn Greenwald in his book No Place to Hide, will be produced by Sony Pictures and in particular by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.Wilson and Broccoli are best known for their involvement in the James Bond film franchise. Under their stewardship the films have becoming progressively more violent, and have increasingly involved participation from the US Department of Defense and the British intelligence services. In particular, Wilson worked closely with screenwriter and producer Richard Maibaum, who collaborated with military and intelligence services from WW2 to the end of the Cold War. Both Wilson and Broccoli were awarded OBEs in the 2008 honours list.The most recent entry in the Bond film franchise, Skyfall, was released in late 2012 and predicted aspects of the Snowden story months before he began to leak documents and publicly identify himself. [...]