Watch a Captivating 5-Minute "Opening Look" at Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER
Universal Pictures has released a captivating five-minute “opening look” at Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which you can watch right here, right now. We’re only one week away from the movie being released, and we’ve been hearing how incredible the movie is! I can’t wait to watch it for myself and experience this massive story on the big screen. This is said to be one of the best cinematic experiences of the year.
The video came with the following note: “The exclusive five-minute Opening Look, edited by the film’s editor Jennifer Lame, reveals new scenes, images and sounds from the IMAX®-shot epic thriller and features the film’s breathtaking score by Academy Award® winner Ludwig Göransson.”
This isn’t the first five minutes of the film, it’s a five-minute trailer for the film filled with lots of new footage to get you hyped about watching the movie. Check it out!
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. He is joined by Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
The movie also stars Florence Pugh as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber, Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence, along with Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Dane DeHaan, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, and Matthew Modine.
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 is filmed in a combination of IMAX® 65mm and 65mm large-format film photography including, for the first time ever, sections in IMAX® black and white analogue photography.
Oppenheimer opens in theaters on July 21, 2023.