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The first image of Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer has been released by Universal Pictures. “Oppenheimer” marks the first collaboration between Universal and director Christopher Nolan, and is set for a July 21, 2023, theatrical release.
Known as the “father of the atomic bomb,” Oppenheimer was head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and helmed the “Manhattan Project,” which first developed nuclear weapons for World War II. He also supervised the Trinity Test, in which the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated in New Mexico.
Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, with Emily Blunt playing his wife, Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Matt Damon plays General Leslie Groves Jr., and Robert Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie is theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano takes on Robert Serber, and Josh Hartnett plays American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
Nolan has recruited director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema, who worked with him on Tenet, Dunkirk and Interstellar, and editor Jennifer Lame and composer Ludwig Göransson, who both also worked on Tenet.
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