OPPENHEIMER
DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY, EMILY BLUNT, ROBERT DOWNEY JR., MATT DAMON, FLORENCE PUGH ETA 21 JULY
You’re familiar with the Manhattan Project?” arms dealer Priya Singh (Dimple Kapadia) asks the Protagonist (John David Washington) in Christopher Nolan’s 2020 action epic Tenet. In what was possibly a cinematic temporal pincer movement, Nolan had laid down a clue to what would be his next feature film.
“My fascination with Oppenheimer began when I first learned of the aspect of his story that I made a reference to in Tenet,” Nolan tells Total Film in November 2022. “When they were first talking about building an atomic bomb, and the possibilities of it, there was this idea - this moment - where they realised there was a small possibility that they might set fire to the atmosphere and destroy the world, when they push that button. And they went ahead and pushed it anyway.
“I found that to be an absolutely compelling moment in history that I wanted to take the audience to, and have them experience it
