Cillian Murphy Says There Are No Deleted Scenes From OPPENHEIMER or Any of Christopher Nolan's Movies

Cillian Murphy is just coming off his lead performance in Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s latest epic movie about the creation of the atomic bomb. The role will absolutely get Murphy an Oscar nomination, and I’d be surprised if he didn’t win the Academy Award. But for anyone who is curious about seeing an extended cut, or deleted scenes from the film may be disappointed. Murphy says there’s no unused footage from the movie, or any of Nolan’s films, really.

The three-hour long film told a non-stop story that never lagged or felt like it could’ve been edited, and Murphy explained to Collider that the end result isn’t due to a careful edit, but it’s actually the full vision that Nolan has:

"There’s no deleted scenes in Chris Nolan movies. That’s why there are no DVD extras on his movies because the script is the movie. He knows exactly what’s going to end up– he’s not fiddling around with it trying to change the story. That is the movie."

The report says that The Dark Knight trilogy is the closest we've come to seeing things left out of the final film, which can be attributed to the fact he was adapting comic books into films. However, the majority of items left out of films certainly appear to be concept art, if not much else. Snippets of footage have certainly appeared in making-of documentaries, or behind-the-scenes books. Nolan's philosophy, as the director has previously noted, is that deleted scenes can remove the mystique from a film, leading to questions about what was left out of a film, rather than what's actually in it, and that he prefers to shoot as little extraneous footage as he can.

Nolan explained to MTV.com back in 2012 after the release of The Dark Knight Rises: "I tend to try and weed things out on paper because it’s crazy expensive to shoot things that aren’t going to be in the film,” he explained. “It also takes up a lot of time and energy. Pretty much with all my films, there are very few deleted scenes, which always disappoints the DVD crowd."

Oppenheimer is currently playing in theaters.