Irish actor Cillian Murphy joins the cast of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film

Irish actor Cillian Murphy joins the cast of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film

Set to be released in July 2023, the film promises to be an epic thriller to immerse audiences in a “gripping paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world to save it,” based on the Pulitzer-winning novel “American Prometheus.” : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer “, by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin.

The theoretical physicist, who died in 1967, is considered the “father of the atomic bomb”, the weapon of mass destruction that he helped develop within the framework of the Manhattan Project during World War II, and that the United States launched against Japanese cities. from Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, ending the contest on the Pacific stage.

“Oppenheimer” is the first film that Nolan will make outside of the Warner Bros. production company, with which he worked throughout his career, after the relationship with its executives was strained after the decision of Warner to release its 2021 titles simultaneously in theaters and on the streaming platform HBO Max, sparking public disgust from the director.

His latest film, “Tenet,” was released by Warner in the midst of the pandemic and was a critical and box office disappointment, even with a track record of hits like “Dunkirk” and the Batman trilogy, but Nolan insisted that the film have an exclusive theatrical release.

According to what transpired last September, the director had spoken with several studios in the previous weeks about the possibility of producing his drama, whose budget is around 100 million dollars, and after contacting Sony and MGM, he opted for by Universal.

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