Oliver Stone’s new movie is just him talking to Vladimir Putin for four hours
Oliver Stone, the filmmaker and conspiracy theory enthusiast behind political films such as JFK, Nixon, W., Looking for Fidel, World Trade Center, and Snowden, has confirmed that his next film will be about Vladimir Putin. Called The Putin Interviews, the documentary is the latest in a long line of Stone films about controversial world leaders.
In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Stone said that he visited Putin four times over two years and conducted over a dozen interviews, initially while researching his 2016 Edward Snowden biopic and his 2016 documentary about the ongoing Ukrainian military crisis, Ukraine on Fire. (The latter has not been released in the United States.) Eventually the two developed a friendship.
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