{"id":2045,"date":"2021-10-09T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/trends\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2023-03-06T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:34:15","slug":"cillian-murphy-teams-up-with-director-christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virlan.co\/trends\/celebrity\/cillian-murphy-teams-up-with-director-christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Cillian Murphy teams up with director Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer movie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cillian Murphy teams up with director Christopher Nolan on atom bomb movie Oppenheimer<\/h2>\n\n\n

Cillian Murphy will play the creator of the atom bomb in the $100m flick<\/h6>\n

Cillian Murphy is to play atom bomb creator J Robert Oppenheimer in the new movie from top director Christopher Nolan.<\/h3>\n
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The Irish actor – who is a dead ringer for the scientist – will play the man known as \u201cthe father of the atomic bomb\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Murphy has worked with the British filmmaker on four occasions in the past, including another WW2 drama, Dunkirk. Several major studios have been involved in a bidding war to release the film in recent weeks, before filming has even begun. High-profile US studio Universal Pictures has snagged the rights to the movie.<\/p>\n

The Cork-born actor had been rumoured to be interested in starring in the movie, but the studio confirmed he was on board this weekend.<\/p>\n

The atomic bombs were dropped by US forces on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of August 1945, killing hundreds of thousands of people and effectively bringing the six-year conflict to an end. Oppenheimer was the leader of a core group involved in its development.<\/p>\n

Cillian has worked with Nolan on four different movies, including his last wartime drama Dunkirk, which told the story of the Dunkirk evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers in 1940.<\/p>\n

The film was told through the perspectives of the Allies by sea, land and air. He also played villain The Scarecrow in two of Nolan\u2019s trilogy of The Dark Knight\/Batman films, as well as sci-fi thriller Inception.<\/p>\n

Oppenheimer is set to be shot on Imax film and released in cinemas in the summer of 2023. Filming is due to begin early next year.<\/p>\n

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Cillian Murphy to star as Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer<\/h2>\n\n\n

Murphy has appeared in five of Nolan’s other movies, including all three parts of the Dark Knight trilogy<\/h4>\n

After years of casting him as villains, side characters, and occasionally even depriving him of a proper name\u2014shout-out to Dunkirk\u2019s \u201cShivering Soldier\u201d\u2014Christopher Nolan is apparently finally ready to give long-time collaborator Cillian Murphy a starring role in one of his movies. Deadline reports that the Peaky Blinders actor has now been set to star in Nolan\u2019s upcoming Oppenheimer, where he\u2019ll get to play the Oppenheimer, which has got to be a thrill.<\/p>\n

Reports of Nolan<\/strong>\u2019s latest have been circulating for a few months now, largely in the backdrop of his present unhappiness with frequent studio partner Warner Bros. A prolonged bidding war eventually landed the film at Universal, the first time Nolan has broken ranks with Warner since Memento, way back in 2000.<\/p>\n

So far no plot details about Oppenheimer have slipped out, although we\u2019re going to go ahead and venture a guess that it won\u2019t be about the famous\/infamous scientist discovering a late-life interest in peaceful backyard gardening. Really, the casting of Murphy is the biggest hint yet we\u2019ve gotten yet about the film\u2019s take on \u201cthe father of the atomic bomb,\u201d suggesting that, whatever else he\u2019s got going on, this version of the man will have nuclear-grade cheekbones and the kind of haunted, intense stare that makes that \u201cI am become death, destroyer of worlds\u201d stuff really and truly land.<\/p>\n

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