Director Oliver Stone wants Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star as Edward Snowden in his upcoming biopic The Snowden Files.This version of the asylum-seeking CIA leaker's story is based on the novel Time of the Octopus, by Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena. The story tracks the American whistle blower as he heads to Russia, and the conversations between him and his lawyer as he awaits his request for asylum to be considered by the country.