Emily Blunt in Talks to Join Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER
Emily Blunt is in talks to join Cillian Murphy in director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming World War II set film Oppenheimer. Nolan is apparently looking to put together an all-star ensemble cast for the film, and if Blunt ends up being cast in the movie, she will play the wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who headed up the Manhattan Project that led to the invention of the atomic bomb.
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.”
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.
Emily Blunt is a great actress, and it makes sense that one day she would end up working with Nolan. The director of the film is also writing the script, and he will produce with his partner and wife, Emma Thomas, and Charles Roven of Atlas Entertainment. Universal has set the release date for July 21, 2023.
Source: Deadline