Recent reports reveal that the release date for Oliver Stone's Snowden has been pushed back.

The movie based on NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was initially set for release around christmas but now it is being set for a 2016 premiere.

The Hollywood Reporter reported this bit of information revealing that exact release date has not been revealed yet. The movie stars Joseph Gordon Levitt as Snowden and Shailene Woodley. The movie is still being filmed so it gives the fimmakers more time to work on it. But this means that Snowden will be out of next year's Oscar race.

The first look at Levitt as Snowden was revealed in March this year. "In this first look, before he was a whistle-blower, Edward was an ordinary man who unquestioningly served his country," the studio Open Road Films stated in a release.

Snowden has temporary asylum in Russia right now. The 2014 documentary Citizenfour in which filmmaker Laura Poitras captured Snowden spilling the NSA's secrets, picked up the 2015 Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Gordon-Levitt recently wrapped filming for The Walk, a Robert Zemeckis film based on the true story which was made into a documentary, Man on Wire about Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in New York on August 7, 1974. Gordon-Levitt plays the part of Petit, and is busy promoting it now. The actor has also been filming for a Christmas-eve themed movie which is being directed by Jonathan Levine..

The Walk will release on Sept. 30.

Watch the trailer for CitizenFour:

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