Desk Report
Publish: 04 Nov 2021, 04:53 pm
Robert Downey Jr And Matt Damon || Photo: Collected
The ensemble for Christopher Nolan’s next film
Oppenheimer keeps growing in star power as sources tell Deadline Matt Damon and
Robert Downey Jr. are in talks to join Cillian Murphy in the Universal Pictures
tentpole.
Deadline previously reported that Emily Blunt is in talks to join the cast as well. Nolan is writing and directing the film that revolves around J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the invention of the atomic bomb.
The film will bow on July 21, 2023, a slot
typically saved for Nolan films in the past. It’s also roughly two weeks before
the anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima.
Details behind who Damon and Downey Jr. will be
playing in the project are being kept under wraps.
Universal will distribute Oppenheimer theatrically worldwide and release the film in North America. Nolan will also be producing along with Emma Thomas and Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven. 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 deadline was first to announce this would be Nolan’s next film and also broke the news
of Universal landing the rights to the project following a heated bidding war
among almost every major suitor in town. Deadline also first mentioned that
Murphy would have a key role in the project, which is now confirmed to be the
man at the center of the story.
Nolan
is known for having ensembles with a mix of talent he’s worked within the
past, along with stars he would be working with for the first time. This film
touches both areas. Damon previously worked with Nolan on his sci-fi epic
Interstellar. As for Downey Jr., this would mark the first time the two will
work together on a project.
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