Nolan has also added Alden Ehrenreich and David Krumholtz into the cast
Universal Pictures released the first look of actor Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The epic thriller has been garnering a lot of attention since its announcement two months ago. Aside from being a Nolan movie, Oppenheimer also has an all-star cast.
Let’s discuss that in detail below.
Cast and crew
Aside from Murphy, the movie stars his A Quiet Place II co-star Emily Blunt as his wife Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Kitty was a biologist and botanist. The movie also stars Matt Damon as General leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project. Next up is Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a founding member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Then we have Academy Award-nominee Florence Pugh as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock; Benny Safdie as theoretical physicist Edward Teller; Michael Angarano as Robert Serber, and Josh Hartnett as American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. The movie also stars Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh in undisclosed roles.
Recently-revealed cast members include Dane DeHaan (The Amazing Spider-Man 2); Dylan Arnold (Halloween); Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story); David Krumholtz (Superbad), and Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises).
Oppenheimer will be produced by Nolan, Emma Thomas, and Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven. It will also mark Nolan’s first venture with Universal, after he publicly spoke against Warner Bros’ decision to release movies simultaneously in theatres and HBO Max.
About Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of California, Berkley. He was involved in the Manhattan Project in the World War II era, and developed the atomic bomb. The movie is termed as a pulse-pounding paradox about a man who must risk destroying the world to save it.
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