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Shailene Woodley may star in Edward Snowden film

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ANI Washington
Last Updated : Nov 15 2014 | 12:40 PM IST

Shailene Woodley is in talks to pale the female lead in the upcoming Edward Snowden film.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the project, which would be helmed by Oliver Stone, already stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the NSA whistleblower, and if the deal is sealed Woodley, 22 would play girlfriend Gordon-Levitt's character.

The film, which is based on upcoming novel Luke Harding's The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man and Time of the Octopus, by Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, and would portray his time with Snowden while he waited in limbo at the Moscow airport before the Russian government decided to grant him asylum, post handing over top-secret NSA documents.

Stone would be producing the project, which is currently in preproduction in Germany, along with longtime producing partner Moritz Borman.

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First Published: Nov 15 2014 | 12:29 PM IST

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