Oscar nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, whom Oppenheimer began a relationship with while he was a professor and she was a grad student and continued to see during his marriage. Robert Oppenheimer, marking the sixth collaboration between the actor and director (following The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception and Dunkirk).Įmily Blunt co-stars as Katherine 'Kitty' Oppenheimer, Robert's wife and a biologist and botanist in her own right who researched the effects of radiation while her husband tested the A-bomb. Is there a trailer?Ĭillian Murphy stars as J. Universal Pictures will release Oppenheimer in theaters on July 21, 2023. Nolan's last WWII-set film, 2017's Dunkirk, earned eight Oscar nominations - including Best Picture and Best Directing - and won three: Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing. Sherwin, the latter of whom spent more than two decades conducting his research.

Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Oppenheimer is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose work at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory led to the invention of the first nuclear weapons during World War II. The movie tells the story of 'the father of the atomic bomb,' J. Here is everything you need to know about Oppenheimer. Like all Nolan projects, the film has a tantalizing premise, an impressively stacked cast and an assemblage of trusted collaborators behind the scenes. Following 2020's time-bending thriller Tenet, Nolan's next movie is Oppenheimer, which is named after its subject, theoretical physicist J. If there's one thing to expect from a new Christopher Nolan movie, it's the unexpected.Īfter tackling superheroes and spies, time travel, dreams within dreams and the furthest reaches of space, the five-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker is venturing into a new genre: the biopic.

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