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You are here: Home / TV & Movies / Movies / Late Night At the Movies Open Thread: Hatebait

Late Night At the Movies Open Thread: Hatebait

by Anne Laurie|  February 5, 201512:49 am| 46 Comments

This post is in: Movies, Open Threads, Security Theatre

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And Zachary Quinto as Glenn Greenwald RT @ClaraJeffery: Omfg http://t.co/XVJ3yYNZIb pic.twitter.com/3YwU8jakqd

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) February 5, 2015

From The Wrap:

… Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star as the NSA contractor who leaked classified documents, while Shailene Woodley will co-star as his longtime girlfriend Lindsay Mills. Rising star Scott Eastwood is also part of the cast.

Tom Ortenberg‘s Open Road Films and James D. Stern’s Endgame Entertainment recently partnered on the U.S. release of the Edward Snowden film, which writer-director Stone based on the books “Time of the Octopus” by Snowden’s Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, and “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man” by journalist Luke Harding…

Give Stone credit: These are accomplished actors, and not the sort who’ll sign up for any piece of crap just because they need the money / want the spotlight.

But I fully expect Glenn Greenwald will be insufferable about the whole project… just the same as you or I would be, m’dears.

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    February 5, 2015 at 1:05 am

    Glenn Greenwald will get to be played by Zachary Quinto. Lucky devil.

    Here’s a wonderful new idea from South Korea: eat your dinner and become a TV star!

  2. 2.

    Geeno

    February 5, 2015 at 1:09 am

    Nonsense! I will be perfectly humble when they make a movie about one of my escapades. I’m just waiting for the call. … over here …waiting.

    @Amir Khalid: Didn’t follow the link, but having food now makes you TV worthy in North Korea – good to know.

  3. 3.

    cokane

    February 5, 2015 at 1:11 am

    why is this movie necessary? there’s a documentary about all of this already

  4. 4.

    mclaren

    February 5, 2015 at 1:19 am

    If Zachary Quinto gets Obama with a Vulcan nerve pinch, then I am all in.

  5. 5.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 5, 2015 at 1:19 am

    @Amir Khalid: My mom told me to always finish what was on my plate, cause there’s staving children in Korea. I mentioned that to my wife over dinner yesterday.

  6. 6.

    Amir Khalid

    February 5, 2015 at 1:20 am

    @cokane:
    Yeah, but no one watches documentaries. But if you make a feature film, cast some hot movie stars who look better than the actual people could ever hope to, and jazz up the story a bit — or a lot, since after all you’re not in the movie business for your health — the thing could become a hit and make you some serious coin.

  7. 7.

    Mnemosyne

    February 5, 2015 at 1:25 am

    The Benedict Cumberbatch movie where he played Julian Assange sank without a trace, so I doubt this one is going to do much better at the box office.

  8. 8.

    mclaren

    February 5, 2015 at 1:27 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Yeah, but you have to make a realistic movie about real events. You know, with Glenn Greenwald using a belt-fed mini-gun to battle radioactive yetis sent by the Pentagon during his escape to the Ecuadorian Embassy in his rocket-propelled Lamborghini along with his supermodel girlfriend who is also a secret ninja assassin able to fend off Joe Biden’s Five Finger Open Palm Death Grip.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    February 5, 2015 at 1:28 am

    @Mnemosyne:
    I did say “could become a hit”. ;)

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    February 5, 2015 at 1:30 am

    @mclaren:
    Glenn Greenwald, with a girlfriend? Now that’s unrealistic.

  11. 11.

    mclaren

    February 5, 2015 at 1:31 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Dude…it’s the movies!

  12. 12.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2015 at 1:38 am

    Glenn Greenwald will be insufferable

    For our next brave prediction:

    Water will continue to be wet.

    Interesting little bit of science news:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/common-cold-could-be-stopped-in-its-tracks-thanks-to-science-breakthrough-10024743.html

    The common cold could be a thing of the past, as scientists have found a way to “jam” the genetic code.

    The breakthrough means in the future, it could be possible to stop virus molecules replicating, by stopping them conveying the instructions needed to copy themselves.

    Researchers at the Universities of Leeds and York used computers to investigate the ribonucleic acid (RNA) structure of a virus molecule, and found a code hidden within its sequence.

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack

    February 5, 2015 at 1:44 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    I was just about to say this. The Fifth Estate was actually pretty good (I saw it in the theater), it had hot star Cumberbatch, and it went exactly nowhere. I don’t see how making the story even more Hollywooden improves the prospects. Unless there are car chases.

  14. 14.

    different-church-lady

    February 5, 2015 at 1:44 am

    I hear it will be heavy on PowerPoint slides.

  15. 15.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    February 5, 2015 at 1:55 am

    @different-church-lady: I’m sure that will spice things up.

  16. 16.

    mclaren

    February 5, 2015 at 1:57 am

    @Morzer:

    I saw a TV series about this. It was called The Last Ship and it did not end well.

  17. 17.

    Mike G

    February 5, 2015 at 2:27 am

    @Geeno:

    Still more appealing than North Korean TV, with shows like “Let’s Cut Our Hair In Accordance With Socialist Lifestyle”

  18. 18.

    srv

    February 5, 2015 at 2:37 am

    Wait wait WAIT! Who is playing John Cole?

  19. 19.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 5, 2015 at 2:43 am

    the World’s Most Wanted Man

    They’ve got to be kidding. He’s just regular level wanted, and made a hilarious spectacle of himself running away.

  20. 20.

    Arclite

    February 5, 2015 at 3:04 am

    @mclaren:

    Yeah, but you have to make a realistic movie about real events. You know, with Glenn Greenwald using a belt-fed mini-gun to battle radioactive yetis sent by the Pentagon during his escape to the Ecuadorian Embassy in his rocket-propelled Lamborghini along with his supermodel girlfriend who is also a secret ninja assassin able to fend off Joe Biden’s Five Finger Open Palm Death Grip.

    I would pay money to see that.

  21. 21.

    Arclite

    February 5, 2015 at 3:06 am

    @srv:

    Wait wait WAIT! Who is playing John Cole?

    Michael Myers. In his Fat Bastard make up.

  22. 22.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2015 at 3:12 am

    @Arclite:

    Undead John Candy

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    February 5, 2015 at 3:15 am

    Give Stone credit:

    For the scene with Snowden discovering a time machine in a secret Chinese lab under the Hong Kong airport and must travel back to assassinate JFK as a condition of being granted entree to Russia?

  24. 24.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    February 5, 2015 at 3:15 am

    @srv:

    When it all falls apart- and it will- Jason Biggs will play Greenwald, James Van Der Beek will play Snowden…And Kevin Smith (who’ll also be directing) will play Cole. The role of constisnoochie-boochies mistermix will, of course, be played by Jason Mewes.

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    February 5, 2015 at 3:23 am

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    Gotta shoehorn Lorenzo Lamas in there somewhere.

    For a fleeting moment confused one of your choices with Eric von Detten. which might be worse.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    February 5, 2015 at 3:23 am

    Link fix.
    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    Gotta shoehorn Lorenzo Lamas in there somewhere.

    For a fleeting moment confused one of your choices with Eric von Detten. which might be worse.

  27. 27.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2015 at 3:24 am

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    But who will play the noble figure of Andrew Sullivan dying of consumption but still heroically “standing with” the friends of freedom from an armchair several thousand miles away?

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    February 5, 2015 at 3:30 am

    @Morzer

    Bruce Campbell. Or Hugh Grant.

  29. 29.

    Botsplainer

    February 5, 2015 at 3:30 am

    @Morzer:

    I vote Zach Galifinakis in that role.

  30. 30.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2015 at 3:46 am

    @Botsplainer:

    I am nominating Ian McNeice.

  31. 31.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    February 5, 2015 at 4:34 am

    @Morzer:

    John Cole.

  32. 32.

    Morzer

    February 5, 2015 at 6:23 am

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    Too stoic and self-effacing.

  33. 33.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    February 5, 2015 at 7:05 am

    @Morzer:

    ACTING!

  34. 34.

    kindness

    February 5, 2015 at 7:11 am

    I used to like Glenn Greenwald. That was 4 or 5 iterations ago. Now I find him to be insufferable on any topic.

  35. 35.

    FlipYrWhig

    February 5, 2015 at 8:10 am

    Is Zachary Quinto going to do immersive research for his role by hanging out in comments here haranguing people who fail to acknowledge his great love of the Muslim people?

  36. 36.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    February 5, 2015 at 8:12 am

    Well if Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s the 2 hour black and white morality of movies is the best way to examine complex historical events.

  37. 37.

    chopper

    February 5, 2015 at 8:45 am

    @Arclite:

    Not angry enough.

  38. 38.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    February 5, 2015 at 8:48 am

    Will the movie have 87 updates during the intro to make Greenwald’s participation more believable ?

  39. 39.

    Marc McKenzie

    February 5, 2015 at 10:23 am

    @mclaren: Screw you.

  40. 40.

    different-church-lady

    February 5, 2015 at 10:29 am

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):

    Jason Biggs will play Greenwald, James Van Der Beek will play Snowden…And Kevin Smith (who’ll also be directing) will play Cole. The role of constisnoochie-boochies mistermix will, of course, be played by Jason Mewes.

    I would pay money to see that.

  41. 41.

    C.V. Danes

    February 5, 2015 at 10:44 am

    @cokane:

    why is this movie necessary? there’s a documentary about all of this already

    Exactly. And from what I hear it was pretty good, so not sure what this film will accomplish except for muddying the truth with ramped-up dramatic license.

  42. 42.

    Kathleen

    February 5, 2015 at 10:56 am

    .Who will be cast as Glenn’s Gulag (the one in which he’s languishing for speaking TRUTH)?

  43. 43.

    different-church-lady

    February 5, 2015 at 11:56 am

    @C.V. Danes:

    …not sure what this film will accomplish except for muddying the truth with ramped-up dramatic license.

    I know. If I wanted that kind of stuff I’d just read Greenwald.

  44. 44.

    Another Holocene Human

    February 5, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    @mclaren: Bring in Zoe Saldana as the girlfriend and I’m in.

  45. 45.

    Another Holocene Human

    February 5, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    @Morzer: Seth Rogen?

  46. 46.

    Another Holocene Human

    February 5, 2015 at 2:33 pm

    @different-church-lady: Shut down the thread.

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