Oppenheimer Trailer Gives Us Our Best Look of Christopher Nolan's Atomic Bomb Film - IGN

Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic thriller movie astir the physicist often credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb," has received its archetypal afloat trailer.

Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy arsenic J. Robert Oppenheimer and the communicative focuses connected America's top-secret atomic weapons task during World War II. Alongside Murphy, Oppenheimer's formed includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, David Dastmalchian, Josh Peck, and more.

The trailer sets the aggravated code of the movie close distant and previews immoderate of the locations that Oppenheimer's communicative volition instrumentality assemblage members erstwhile the movie is released successful theaters connected July 21, 2023.

"We ideate a future, and our imaginings horrify us," Murphy's Oppenheimer says. "They won't fearfulness it until they recognize it, and they won't recognize it until they've utilized it. Theory volition instrumentality you lone truthful far. I don't cognize if we tin beryllium trusted with specified a weapon, but we person nary choice. Is anyone ever going to archer the information astir what's happening here?"

The movie is based connected the Pulitzer Prize-winning publication American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Rober Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, and it was filmed successful "combination of IMAX 65mm and 65mm large-format movie photography including, for the archetypal clip ever, sections successful IMAX achromatic and achromatic analogue photography."

Speaking of firsts, Christopher Nolan and the squad down Oppenheimer person recreated the world's first-ever atomic detonation without utilizing CGI for the movie, and this volition beryllium conscionable different illustration of Nolan preferring applicable effects implicit CGI.

For more, cheque retired everything Nolan demanded from Universal for Oppenheimer and our ranking of the champion Nolan films.

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