Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer.Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
ForChristopher Nolan’sOppenheimer, the world is about to change.
On Monday, Universal Pictures released the official trailer for 52-year-old Nolan’s next movie, which starsCillian Murphyas J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project mastermind who helped develop the atomic bomb.
Matt Damonalso stars as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, alongsideRobert Downey Jr.as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Oscar-nomineeFlorence Pughmeanwhile appears as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock in the thriller, which explores the paradox of “an enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it,” Universal said in a release.
Casey Affleck, Benny Safdie,Josh Hartnett,Rami MalekandKenneth Branaghalso star.
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TheOppenheimertrailer debuted on IMAX screens across the world ahead of screenings forAvatar: The Way of Waterupon its debut on Dec. 16 with a special version of the trailer that will not be made available online, according to theAssociated Press.
In a statement to the AP issued Dec. 13, Nolan said that utilizing IMAX technology “is massively important in transporting the audience into the mind and experience of this person who forever altered our world.”
Cillian Murphy in Openheimer.Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
Nolan explained that he brought on visual-effects supervisor Andrew Jackson “early on” in the project and that Jackson “was looking at how we could do a lot of the visual elements of the film practically, from representing quantum dynamics and quantum physics tothe Trinity test itself, to recreating, with my team, Los Alamos up on a mesa in New Mexico in extraordinary weather, a lot of which was needed for the film.”
Robert Downey Jr. in Oppenheimer.Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures
“In terms of the very harsh conditions out there — there were huge practical challenges,” he added.
Nolan toldTotal Filmthat he’s “thrilled with what [his] team has been able to achieve” withOppenheimerwhich, even aside from the special effects, is “a story of immense scope and scale.”
“And one of the most challenging projects I’ve ever taken onin terms of the scale of it, and in terms of encountering the breadth of Oppenheimer’s story,” the director said. “There were big, logistical challenges, big practical challenges.”
Oppenheimeris in theaters July 21, 2023.
source: people.com
