UPDATE: ‘Oppenheimer’ Adds Alden Ehrenreich and David Krumholtz to Cast; First Picture Released, Kenneth Branagh Also Locked
As production begins on Christopher Nolan’s latest movie, Oppenheimer, two more actors have joined the cast.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) and David Krumholtz (The Deuce) have joined an all-star cast, though their roles have not been revealed yet. Nolan is writing and directing.
The cast, so far, includes Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Rami Malek, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, and Matthew Modine, in addition to Ehrenreich and Krumholtz.
Murphy will be playing the titular character, the lead scientist of the Manhattan Project that ultimately created the atomic bomb in 1945. President Truman would give the green light to drop two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of that year, putting an end to World War II, but killing over one-hundred thousand lives in the process. Eight decades later, we look back at that moment as the lowest point for humanity.
Blunt will be playing Oppenheimer’s wife, Katherine Oppenheimer. Pugh will play Jean Tatlock, a member of the Communist Party of the United States who had an affair with Oppenheimer. Safdie will play Edward Teller, the Hungarian physicist known as the father of the hydrogen bomb and a member of the Manhattan Project. Malek is playing a yet-to-be-revealed scientist. Damon portrays Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project. Downey Jr. is playing Lewis Strauss, the infamous chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Oppenheimer is currently shooting in New Mexico, where the atomic bomb was first tested in 1945. It will be released by Universal on July 21, 2023. The studio has described the film as an “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.”
UPDATE:
Universal Pictures has since released the first official picture of Murphy as Oppenheimer. Variety is also reporting that Kenneth Branagh has joined the cast.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
