Christopher Nolan Takes His New WWII Atom Bomb Movie to Universal Pictures

Not long ago we reported that director Christopher Nolan was shopping his new film project around to other studios outside of Warner Bros. The movie is set in World War II and will revolve around J. Robert Oppenheimer and his involvement with the development of the atom bomb.

Well, Nolan’s new film has landed at Universal Pictures. The studio will finance and distribute the film, which will reportedly have a $100+ million dollar budget.

Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist who became the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and he headed up the research and development of the A-bomb that ended WWII, under what was covertly called the Manhattan Project.

Nolan was not happy with Warner Bros. and the way they handled their slate of 2021 film by releasing them in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously. So, he made the decision to not work with them again, and he’s moving on. Nolan is making sure that it’s in his contracts from here on out that his films will be released in theaters.

I didn’t think that Nolan would have any problems finding another studio to work with. He’s one of the biggest and most talented A-list directors working in Hollywood today.

Batman Begins, Dunkirk, and Inception actor Cillian Murphy is also looking to join the project, but his involvement is not yet 100% confirmed.

Source: Deadline