Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER Will Reportedly Be His Longest Movie Yet
It looks like Christopher Nolan’s historical epic Oppenheimer is going to have quite the epic run time! According to Puck's Matt Belloni, Oppenheimer will be the filmmaker’s longest movie yet!
Nolan’s Interstellar is his current longest movie with a length of 169 minutes. Oppenheimer is said to be closer to 180 minutes, which is three hours long. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised by the kind of story that this movie is going to tell. The movie is said to span 45 years as it tells the story of the atomic bomb.
When previously talking about the film, Nolan teased the massive scope of the film: "It's a story of immense scope and scale. And one of the most challenging projects I've ever taken on in terms of the scale of it, and in terms of encountering the breadth of Oppenheimer's story. There were big, logistical challenges, big practical challenges. But I had an extraordinary crew, and they really stepped up. It will be a while before we're finished. But certainly as I watch the results come in, and as I'm putting the film together, I'm thrilled with what my team has been able to achieve."
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II. The film has been described as an “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.”
Murphy is joined in the film by Emily Blunt as biologist and botanist Kitty Oppenheimer; Robert Downey, Jr. as founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss; Matt Damon as Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves Jr.; Florence Pugh as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock; Benny Safdie as theoretical physicist Edward Teller; and Josh Hartnett as pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. The movie also stars Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Michael Angarano, Olivia Thirlby, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke, David Krumholtz, Kenneth Branagh, and David Dastmalchian.
Oppenheimer will be released in theatres on July 21, 2023.