Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' Casts Cillian Murphy To Play The Title Role; Sets 2023 Release In Theaters

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Los Angeles, October 9 - Filmmaker Christopher Nolan's upcoming most-anticipated film based on the development of the atomic bomb in World War II, has been titled Oppenheimer. In addition to it, Universal Studios and Syncopy have cast Cillian Murphy to play the title role, which is about J. Robert Oppenheimer who is known as the father of the atomic bomb.

Nolan and Murphy are longtime collaborators. The duo previously worked together on "Batman Begins", "Inception" and "Dunkirk". This time, however, Murphy has been cast to play the lead for the first time in Nolan's film. Oppenheimer will also be Nolan's return to WWII after Dunkirk, which earned the director his first and only Academy Award nomination for Best Director.



The upcoming film, like previous Nolan films such as "Dunkirk" and "The Dark Knight", will be shot with IMAX cameras and it will start production early next year. Universal Pictures will make the $100 million film after winning the rights, beating the likes of Warner Bros., Paramount, and Sony. The studio will distribute the film theatrically worldwide and has set July 21, 2023, release date in North America for a minimum of 100 days in theaters.

The film is described as "an IMAX-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it". Oppenheimer will be written by Nolan, produced by Emma Thomas, Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven, and Nolan. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

Nolan will also be reuniting with several other previous collaborators on this project, including producer Charles Roven, Nolan's Tenet, Dunkirk, and Interstellar director of photographer Hoyte Van Hoytema, Tenet editor Jennifer Lame, and Tenet composer Ludwig Göransson.

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