Christopher Nolan’s New Movie Adds Josh Peck To Cast

Christopher Nolan adds Josh Peck to the cast of his World War II film Oppenheimer. Nolan will be returning to the theaters in 2023 with a new epic that follows the “father of the atomic bomb” Robert Oppenheimer through his scientific breakthroughs with nuclear weapon technology during World War II. Known for delivering unique and visually exciting blockbusters such as The Dark Knight, Inception, and Tenet, Nolan’s highly anticipated upcoming film will surely be another sight to behold.

Variety reports that the Drake and Josh star Josh Peck has joined the ever-expanding cast of Christopher Nolan’s World War II feature Oppenheimer. He will play the American physicist Kenneth Bainbridge, who assisted with research for the Manhattan Project, the code name for the United States’ effort to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. Bainbridge was the director of the famed 1945 Trinity nuclear tests in what he later described as “a foul and awesome display.”

Josh Peck joins an A-list cast including Cillian Murphy in the titular role, Robert Downey Jr. as the U.S. Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss, and Black Widow star Florence Pugh as American psychiatrist Jean Tatlock. Rounding out the impressive lineup is Matt Damon as the director of the Manhattan Project Leslie Groves Jr., Emily Blunt as Robert Oppenheimer’s wife Kitty Oppenheimer, Benny Safdie as “father of the hydrogen bomb” theoretical physicist Edward Teller, and Josh Hartnett as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Lawrence. Other cast members in unspecified roles include No Time to Die‘s Rami Malek, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke, James D’Arcy, and Death on the Nile‘s Kenneth Branagh.

Christopher Nolan’s upcoming thriller is based on the Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin Pulitzer Prize-winning biographical book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Nolan has chosen to shoot sections of the film in black and white using an IMAX camera, making it the first movie to use black and white IMAX film stock. The Dark Knight Rises director’s bold cinematography choice has undoubtedly contributed to the $100 million price tag at Universal Pictures, a number that may increase before the film’s release. Oppenheimer will hit the big screen July 21, 2023.

Source: Variety

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