The film is currently in pre-production in Munich and principal photography will begin in January 2015.

Earlier this year, it was announced that Snowden’s Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena had sold the film rights to his upcoming novel, “Time of the Octopus” to Stone and Borman. This, along with Luke Harding’s “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man”, have been used as sources for the screenplay.