Cillian Murphy Confirmed to Star in Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER

Cillian Murphy is confirmed to reunite with director Christopher Nolan in the upcoming World War II set film Oppenheimer. The movie will revolve around J. Robert Oppenheimer and his involvement with the development of the atom bomb.

Universal Pictures picked up the project, which they describe 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.”

The project is based on the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. Here’s a description of that book:

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.

In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative.

Nolan is also writing the script, and he will produce will be his partner and wife, Emma Thomas, and Charles Roven of Atlas Entertainment. Universal has set the release date for July 21, 2023.

It was already reported that Murphy was looking to join the project. This just makes it official, and I have no doubt that he’ll give a fantastic performance.