But making his first appearance at Comic-Con to promote “Snowden," which opens in September, director Oliver Stone said the film is about issues of surveillance, technology and privacy that affect everyone – and he pointed to "Pokemon Go" as an example. “It’s not funny,” Stone said, saying the game represents just the latest sign of an emerging phenomenon of “surveillance capitalism” in which citizens willingly surrender their privacy to corporations, which then profit off it. A drama about Edward Snowden may seem an unlikely fit for a convention devoted to comic book heroes and sci-fi and fantasy spectacle. “It’s what they call totalitarianism.”As part of the film’s promotional campaign at Comic-Con, attendees have been handed "Snowden" Band-Aids. “You’ll see a new form of frankly a robot society,” Stone said.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 21, 2016 20:23 UTC