Poster and teaser for Oppenheimer, the film by Christopher Nolan with Cilliam Murphy by Peaky Bilnders, published

When exactly a year is missing from its premiere, Oppenheimerthe film about the scientist who designed the atomic bomb directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy, presented its first official trailer exclusively in theaters.

The short preview began showing up before the screenings of no, the new film by Jordan Peele with whom he shares a studio: Universal Pictures. In addition to this first look, one of the most anticipated films of 2023 has released its official poster.

The British director has already put in place a similar strategy – only for cinemas – in August 2019 for the advance of Principlewhich debuted at the screenings of Hobbs & Shaw. In fact, that first advance has never been seen on the web. It is not yet known if the same will happen with the teaser of Oppenheimer.

The cast

For his portrayal of the theoretical physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and “father of the atomic bomb”, Nolan once again turned to the star of Peaky Blinders, who has already directed Batman, The origin Y Dunkirk.

Murphy will be joined by a hyper-star cast, including Emily Blunt (Katherine Oppenheimer), Matt Damon (Leslie Groves), Robert Downey Jr. (Lewis Strauss) and Florence Pugh (Jean Tatlock).

And the names continue: Rami Malek, Josh Hartnett, Dane deHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Benny Safdie, Dylan Arnold, Olli Haasviki, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Michael Angarano and Kenneth Branagh.

how is the teaser

“The world is changing, it is reforming. This is your moment, “says Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife, at the beginning of the teaser, as described by the site. Variety. Then a countdown appears on the screen: “11 months, 24 days, 15 hours, 29 minutes”.

Nolan likes to play with the figure of the clock. Here he returns to the sound of ticking – so linked to the bombs – to count down to the day when “the world changes forever”, the motto of the film that will debut in theaters on 21 July 2023.

When the title appears on screen, Downey Jr’s character Strauss says of Oppenheimer: “The Man Who Moved the Earth”. Images of fire and smoke are interspersed with black and white shots of Murphy as the American nuclear physicist.

Last February, the actor said he had read a lot to play the scientist born in 1904 in New York. But he made it clear that he ignored the more technical details on atomic bomb science.

“I was more interested in man and what (by inventing the atomic bomb) he did to the individual. Mechanics aren’t really for me, I don’t have the intellectual skills to understand them, but these contradictory characters are fascinating. “

Known team and break with Warner

Besides Murphy, Oppenheimer will reunite Nolan with cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, who has garnered rave reviews for his work on Interstellar, Dunkirk Y Principleand who is currently being praised for his own work noby Peel.

In addition, the editor Jennifer Lame and the composer Ludwig Göransson of Principlethey also returned to take command of the 51-year-old London director.

This is Nolan’s first film with Universal Pictures. The director and screenwriter has worked with Warner Bros. for more than fifteen years, since insomnia (2002) to the trilogy of Batman, which has grossed billions of dollars. Apparently, the romance ended after an argument over the faltering launch of the pandemic Principle.

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