Oppenheimer Set Photos Unite Cillian Murphy & Matt Damon In New Nolan Movie

A new Oppenheimer set photo shows stars Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon working on the next Christopher Nolan movie. The popular blockbuster filmmaker is switching gears after the high-concept Tenet, adapting the biography American Prometheus to tell the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. With frequent Nolan collaborator Murphy cast in the title role, Oppenheimer is scheduled to release theatrically on July 21, 2023.

The film will be Nolan’s first under his new deal with Universal Studios, following a much-publicized rift between him and Warner Bros. over their 2021 HBO Max release strategy, and the change of distributor has in no way hampered the filmmaker’s ability to attract A-list talent. Oppenheimer‘s cast has grown to almost absurd proportions – in addition to Murphy and Damon, the project’s actors include Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, and Kenneth Branagh, to name but a few. The movie will center primarily on Oppenheimer’s involvement with the Manhattan Project, which resulted in him being one of those called the “father of the atomic bomb.”

Now, new Oppenheimer set photos shared by @thompn4 capture Murphy and Damon in action on the Nolan movie. The images show the two in costume as Oppenheimer and Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves, respectively, as they stand in front of a podium. The photos also capture the production using an IMAX camera, something that has become a trademark of Nolan’s filmmaking since 2008’s The Dark Knight. Check out the images below:

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Many fans are eager to see what Nolan will make of Oppenheimer, which presents an opportunity to stand out from his recent filmography. While already the move away from science fiction is notable, a biography of a theoretical physicist presents very different constraints from his previous WWII-era project, the tense war-thriller Dunkirk. Nolan can be counted on to avoid the typical biopic formula trappings, but he could choose to either lean into technically stunning depictions of atomic blasts, as his audience might expect, or produce a quieter, character-driven drama.

Whatever Oppenheimer turns out to be like, one virtual certainty is that audiences will flock to see it if they’re able. Nolan is one of the few remaining filmmakers who can command big budgets for non-IP blockbusters, and while Tenet might be synonymous with the box-office catastrophe that is the pandemic era, it still finished as the fifth-highest-grossing movie of 2020 worldwide. Given that Oppenheimer only costs half as much to make at $100 million, Universal should expect to make a tidy profit when it hits theaters.

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