Christopher Nolan: These are the first official images of his new movie “Oppenheimer”

“Oppenheimer”, the awaited film of about the “father” of the atomic bomb, advanced its first images this Thursday as an appetizer, before its premiere on July 21, 2023.

In a very short video that the Universal Pictures studio is playing on a loop on its social networks, with a countdown included, Cillian Murphy appears in the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer while a voice-over says: “The world is changing, reforming itself. This is your moment”.

The voice corresponds to Emily Blunt, who plays the scientist’s wife, Katherine, in this long-awaited film from the director of “Dunkirk” (2017).

Later, after a succession of images of explosions, another male voice implores: “You gave them the power to destroy themselves and made the greatest man who ever lived.”

The plot of “Oppenheimer” will be based on the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

It will be the second time that the filmmaker has set a film in World War II after the acclaimed and successful “Dunkirk” (2017).

Nolan is one of the most prestigious and influential directors of the 21st century, thanks to films like “Inception” (2010), “Interstellar” (2014) and the acclaimed Batman trilogy made up of “Batman Begins” (2005), “The Dark Knight” (2008) and “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012).

His most recent film, “Tenet”, was released in the summer of 2020 despite the fact that the situation due to the coronavirus was very complicated and cinemas around the world were closed or with very limited capacity.

The film, a complex espionage thriller that intersects with temporary games, grossed 364 million dollars, a small figure for a blockbuster of this caliber and that marked Nolan’s break with Warner Bros.

The Briton had been working with Warner Bros for years, but was very critical when the studio decided to release his films in theaters and on HBO Max at the same time, as an emergency measure due to covid-19. The move led to a split between the studio and Nolan, who will now release his films under the Universal label.

With information from EFE

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Christopher Nolan: These are the first official images of his new movie “Oppenheimer”