Christopher Nolan’s next film has scored the title “Oppenheimer,” has set Cillian Murphy as its lead, and has now locked in a July 21st 2023 release date.
Universal Pictures, which won the feature after a heated bidding war, will release the film worldwide in that late July slot which Nolan has favored for years now with his various Warner Bros. Pictures films.
Murphy will star as scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist and wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory. He’s credited as being the “father of the atomic bomb” for his role among many in the Manhattan Project.
The epic thriller was also penned by Nolan who will produce alongside Emma Thomas and Charles Roven. Nolan based the script on Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “American Prometheus”.
The film will begin production in early 2022 and is being shot by cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema on a combination of IMAX 65mm and 65mm large-format film. Also onboard are Jennifer Lame as editor and Ludwig Goransson as the score composer.
Source: Deadline
