SMH.

Snowden threads.

I am looking forward to the movie. Oliver Stone makes interesting movies.

This destroys the meme that Snowden lives off the Russian government.

He made a good income before he left the US and has now sold his film rights.

It is normal that an attorney represents a person in the sale of film rights. Doesn't always happen, but does happen in situations in which a lot of money is involved.

More like they are 99.9999% pure bullshit.

are 99 bullshit. When H-wood invests millions in a project, they can't take a chance by not serving up the sensationalized version of things.

Ass-thoughts don't count.

his attorney sold him out for an easy buck.

Lawyers often negotiate book and movie deals for clients.

The LAWYER sold the rights. This is not the lawyer negotiated a deal for Snowden selling the rights. This could be seen as a betrayal of trust.

Only the lawyer gets money here - especially as he is calling his trilogy FICTION loosely based on Snowden.

Or is this Snowden's way of paying his lawyer.

Not an ounce of speculation there. I responded because it was clear that the poster, with whom I disagree with on Snowden but agree with on a huge amount of things, seemed to have misread the op - thinking the lawyer had facilitated a deal with SNOWDEN selling the rights to his story.

At this point, this is the only thing I have read of it and was taking what was written at face value -- and I hope it is not true.

I think I'll wait until I hear what Snowden says about it.

I suspect that it gives the lawyer the freedom to EITHER use real leaks or make up sensational leaks - in either case saying that this is fiction - wink wink. I know one of his lawyers was said to be KGB. I don't know if this is the one. His connection - even just as a lawyer to Snowden - gives him and his work a claim it may not deserve to be something that is real.

Imagine the opportunity - you have a very good film maker, with a history of films that at least verge on conspiracy theory, and a Russian (maybe KGB) lawyer writing a thriller "loosely based on Snowden". Almost for certain, you will have some people taking this as Gospel truth - even though there will be disclaimers.

On a personal level, anyone with a writer in the family likely has some concerns of how they will appear - especially in any largely autobiographical work of fiction. The author will have to define the leaker enough that he can be the central character in the film. Does he make the leaker a loner who does not quite fit in or someone like the Robert Redford character in "The company you keep" or even a Jason Bourne like character?

For many, unless the author goes far out of his way to make the leaker completely unlike Snowden, that movie character may become their image of who Snowden is. Would you want someone to have the power to "define" for a large number of people who you are? It is true that Snowden can get platforms - like the NBC interview - where people can see him - not the fictional counterpart, but interviews are best in conveying positions, rather than who someone really is.

to live satisfactorily for the rest of his life.

Of course, there's nothing like getting your life put into a major director's filmography to gain a bit of historical validation.

I'll enjoy seeing what Stone does with this film. As a former film teacher I'll wager that this could well be a cover for what Stone really wants to do on the side, which is a documentary about Snowden.

LOL!

The Carlyle Group Has Made $2 Billion Off Of Booz Allen
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2013/06/10/the-carlyle-group-has-made-2-billion-off-of-booz-allen/

In 2008, the Carlyle Group made a large $910 million investment to buy a majority stake in Booz Allen’s government consulting business. The deal saw Booz Allen’s big government advisory unit, which produced most of the firm’s revenue, split off from its corporate consulting group, on the eve of the financial crisis.

But Washington-based Carlyle, which has a long and successful history doing deals involving government contractors, has really made the Booz Allen deal work. It has been an amazing transaction for Carlyle. The private equity firm has made $2 billion in realized and unrealized profits on the Booz Allen Hamilton deal so far. Its $910 million investment is now worth $3 billion.

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This is what we should be discussing...

how does this line up with the movie rights Greenwald alredy sold.

http://warincontext.org/2014/05/15/greenwald-sells-movie-rights-of-snowden-story-to-sony-pictures/

VERY loosely based, even if Oliver Stone said it would be "factual" since Oliver Stone can't use actual facts.

the same puking episode you had yesterday about Al Gore or is this one new? I'd suggest some Pepto at this point.

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