Hong Kong filmmakers to produce first Snowden movie

A group of filmmakers from Hong Kong will be the first to produce a movie on former US intelligence technician Edward Snowden, much of whose drama had unfolded in the same country.

Using local actors and artistic camera work like that of the Bourne movie series, the film depicts the drama leading up to Snowden's much-talked about interview with British newspaper The Guardian, the Daily Times reports.

Cinematographer and editor Edwin Lee said that to be the first one to really do anything about the controversy was quite invigorating, adding that it was a spy movie that was still developing.

The movie will be a five-minute video released on YouTube and will be titled 'Verax'.

The Guardian and the Washington Post were the two newspapers, which published information provided by Snowden about surveillance programmes run to gather Internet data and phone logs, by the National Security Agency.