A new movie project on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden may have actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt bringing the role to life. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a film from director Oliver Stone about Snowden is in the works, and producers are talking with Gordon-Levitt's representatives to secure the actor for the main role.

The film, which Stone will write and direct based on two books, "The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man," by journalist Luke Harding and "Time of the Octopus" that Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena wrote. While Kucherena's novel is the fictional story of an American whistleblower that evades his government by seeking Russian asylum in the Moscow airport, Harding's book is based on The Guardian's stories, which were based on Snowden's information.

Production is set to begin by the end of the year, with Stone accompanied by producers Moritz Berman and Eric Kopeloff. However, Stone's film isn't the only project on Snowden being produced. "CITIZENFOUR," a documentary by Laura Poitras, is scheduled to be released at the New York Film Festival and Sony has captured the filming rights to "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State" by Glenn Greenwald.

Sony is currently searching for a writer to work on the book's adaptation to the screen. Poitras and Greenwald were among the first people to see and break the news of Snowden's classified NSA documents when they were first released.

Gordon-Levitt finished production of his most recent role playing tightrope walker Philippe Petit in Robert Zemeckis' "The Walk." Petit's legendary high-wire walks on many global landmarks, most notably walking between the World Trade Center towers, was chronicled in the documentary "Man on Wire."

The "500 Days of Summer" actor is also in the process of filming an untitled Christmas Eve movie with his "50/50" co-star Seth Rogen. His work in "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" can currently be seen in theaters.