LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the film rights to journalist Glenn Greenwald’s book about former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, recruiting producers of the James Bond franchise to bring the story to screen, the studio said on Wednesday. Snowden, 30, who disclosed details of the U.S. National Security Agency’s surveillance programs to news media last year, has been granted asylum in Russia and risks being arrested and extradited if he sets foot in any U.S.-allied country.
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