"They won’t fear it until they understand it. And they won’t understand it until they’ve used it."
After being secretly attached to Avatar: The Way of Water this past weekend, the first official trailer for Universal Pictures' Oppenheimer has finally been released online and it's arguably even more stunning than we could have imagined. We're taken to the 1940s to be fully immersed in the Manhattan Project and the creation of the nuclear bomb - the most devastating weapon ever deployed.
However, as we quickly learn, Christopher Nolan's hotly-awaited next film won't be your standard historical drama, but instead an epic psychological thriller that will unveil the "pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it."
BAFTA Award-nominee Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins; Peaky Blinders) stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, with 3x BAFTA Award-nominated actress Emily Blunt portraying his wife Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, a biologist and botanist.
Academy Award-winner Matt Damon (Jason Bourne; The Martian), 2x Academy Award-nominee Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man; Avengers: Endgame), Academy Award-nominee Florence Pugh (Black Widow; Hawkeye), Benny Safie (Uncut Gems; Obi-Wan Kenobi), Primetime Emmy-nominee Michael Angarano (Sky High; Almost Famous), Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down; Wrath of Man), Academy Award-winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody; Mr. Robot), and Academy Award-winner Kenneth Branagh (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Murder on the Orient Express) round out the key supporting cast.
Additional cast includes, but is not limited to, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, David Dastmalchian, Jason Clarke, Josh Peck, Devon Bostick, Alex Wolff, Tony Goldwyn, Gary Oldman, Casey Affleck, Scott Grimes, Josh Zuckerman, James D'Arcy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Christopher Denham, David Rysdahl, Guy Burnet, Danny Deferrari, Louise Lombard, Harrison Gilbertson, Emma Dumont, Gustaf Skarsgård, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Olli Haaskivi, and Olivia Thirlby.
Check out the official trailer below:
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Oscar® winner Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
Oppenheimer also stars Oscar® winner Rami Malek and reunites Nolan with eight-time Oscar® nominated actor, writer and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh.
The cast includes Dane DeHaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), Dylan Arnold (Halloween franchise), David Krumholtz (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) and Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises).
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. The film is produced by Emma Thomas, Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan.
Oppenheimer is filmed in a combination of IMAX® 65mm and 65mm large-format film photography including, for the first time ever, sections in IMAX® black and white analogue photography.
Nolan’s films, including Tenet, Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception and The Dark Knight trilogy, have earned more than $5 billion at the global box office and have been awarded 11 Oscars and 36 nominations, including two Best Picture nominations.