Killian Murphy will appear in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy has reteamed with Christopher Nolan for the filmmaker’s latest project, now officially titled Oppenheimer.
Universal, which landed the project in September with much ado as it became Nolan’s first movie in years not to made with his now-former longtime studio home, Warner Bros., announced the details Friday.
The studio also set a North American theatrical release date of July 21, 2023. The summer month has long been a Nolan release tradition.
Universal called the project an “epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physics, is considered one of the fathers of the atom bomb, which he helped develop during World War II. The project is based on the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin, the latter of whom passed away this week.