Filmmaker Christopher Nolan (“Dunkirk“) is making his return to period dramas with his WWII era biopic, “Oppenheimer,” which focuses on the development of the atomic bomb by the U.S. military headed up by J. Robert Oppenheimer. The massively destructive weapon was unleashed upon the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing thousands of innocent people caught in the blast. While that horrific event ultimately led to the surrender of Japan and the end of the bloody Pacific Campaign of WWII. However, this established a brand new kind of bomb that could destroy the planet through mutually assured destruction, aka, M.A.D. as more countries feverishly developed their own cache of nuclear weapons in the wake of the Cold War as the former Soviet Union and America had their own arms race after the war.
Oppenheimer is played by Irish actor and Nolan’s frequent collaborator, Cillian Murphy. Universal Pictures has released a new trailer (See Below) for the high-profile project as the new footage had been making the rounds in theaters over the weekend. Universal is hoping that the drama is a big hit for them given how popular Nolan’s films are to a global audience and could lead to a new partnership after the director left Warner Bros. over their purist of a day-and-date release strategy.
The rest of the impressive cast assembled by Nolan includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, and Robert Downey, Jr. in key supporting roles. Other players on the drama’s call sheet consists of Rami Malek, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Matthew Modine, Kenneth Branagh, Jason Clarke, Jack Quaid, Josh Peck, Michael Angarano, Dane DeHaan, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, David Dastmalchian, Alex Wolff, Casey Affleck, and Gary Oldman in a cameo as President Harry Truman.
Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” will be officially released by Universal on July 21 and goes head-to-head against Greta Gerwig‘s “Barbie” movie. You can watch that aforementioned new trailer for the pic below.
