Oppenheimer: The First Poster of Christopher Nolan’s New Film, Has Been Unveiled

A few minutes after the update on Oppenheimer’s teaser trailer, which appeared unexpectedly during some press screening of Jordan Peele’s Nope, Universal has unveiled the first official poster of the new Christopher Nolan film. The ensemble cast includes Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh, but these are just some of the names of the huge production (and the only ones that find space in this first poster).

In addition to them, Oppenheimer will also include in the cast Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Kenneth Branagh, Gary Oldman, Michael Angarano and surprisingly Casey Affleck, popped up on set during filming. The film was shot on IMAX 65mm film by cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema and is based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” which explores the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Oppenheimer Release Date

Scheduled for a release scheduled for 21 July 2023, which is exactly one year from today (this is not the first time Nolan has taken advantage of this countdown to promote one of his films) Oppenheimer shows himself to fans with an epic first poster, which anticipates unprecedented devastation and a world destined to change forever. After about twenty years, with Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan makes a film that will not be distributed by Warner Bros. The well-known production company, in the past, produced and distributed the Dark Knight trilogy, Dunkirk (2017) and Tenet (2020).

Oppenheimer is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, written by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. The film will focus on theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as he works at Los Alamos Laboratory during the era of the Manhattan Project and Ultimate becomes the father of the atomic bomb.

Oppenheimer’s development was first announced in late 2021 when Christopher Nolan reunited with Cillian Murphy after previously directing him in the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Dunkirk. Unlike most of his previous works, Nolan auctioned Oppenheimer’s rights to a variety of studios following his break with Warner Bros. due to the choice to release the films simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max during the ‘sanitary emergency. Universal won the rights to Oppenheimer in a heated bidding war with the production, which runs from January to March 2022.