First Look Photos for Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER with Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is one of my most anticipated films of 2023, and thanks to Total Film, we’ve got some first-look photos to share with you.
The story centers on 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.”
The photos features Cillian Murphy as a J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who oversaw the design of the first nuclear weapons during World War II; Emily Blunt as biologist and botanist Kitty Oppenheimer; and Robert Downey, Jr. as founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss.
Oppenheimer was the director of the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory, and “he would go on to feel conflicted about the power that he unleashed, and his post-war years were dogged by investigations into his earlier Communist Party associations.”
The movie also stars Matt Damon as Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves Jr., Florence Pugh is set to play psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie will portray theoretical physicist Edward Teller and Josh Hartnett will embody pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. The movie also stars Rami Malek, Gary Oldman, Michael Angarano, Alden Ehrenreich, Kenneth Branagh, Olivia Thirlby, and Matthew Modine. There’s no word on who Thirlby will be playing.
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin.
Oppenheimer arrives in theaters on July 21, 2023.