“I don’t know if such a weapon can be trusted. But we have no choice,” says Cillian Murphy aka Oppenheimer in the first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s film.
After the film Dunkirk (2017), he returns to the theme of war again. This time, however, it will be a less elaborate, more intimate film. The budget this time is “only” $100 million, making Oppenheimer Nolan’s smallest production to date.
However, even the new film by the British director and screenwriter was not without demanding practical tricks, which Nolan prefers to digital ones. This time he recreated the world’s first nuclear explosion for the camera. “Recreating the Trinity nuclear test without using computer graphics was a big challenge,” Nolan told IndieWire, explaining that his team was faced with a difficult task: how to visualize quantum mechanics and physics practically?
Oppenheimer will be an intimate character study that takes viewers inside the mind of the inventor of the atomic bomb, the most destructive weapon in human history. The film stars Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Emily Blunt, Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek, Casey Affleck, Gary Oldman and others.
