‘Oppenheimer’: Jason Clarke and David Dastmalchian Join the Cast
Jason Clarke and David Dastmalchian are the latest additions to the ridiculously packed cast of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
Deadline just broke the news of Clarke’s casting, though they are unable to give more details on his role. The Hollywood Reporter posted the story on Dastmalchian a few days ago, marking his reunion with the director of The Dark Knight, where he landed his first film role back in 2008 as one of Joker’s thugs.
Dastmalchian is now more established than ever — in 2021, he appeared in two of the biggest movies of the year, playing Polka-Dot Man in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad and Piter De Vries in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. Clarke has been kind of under the radar these past few years, appearing every now and then in projects like Pet Sematary or The Devil All The Time. In the mid-2010s he was everywhere, from Zero Dark Thirty to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes or Terminator: Genysis.
In addition to Clarke and Dastmalchian, the cast so far includes: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Rami Malek, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, and David Krumholtz. Production kicked off last week in New Mexico, something that was celebrated by Universal, the studio behind the production and distribution of the movie, by releasing the first official photo of Cillian Murphy as the titular character.
Nolan is writing, directing, and producing, along with his wife, Emma Thomas. The script 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. It will explore the making of the atomic bomb in the mid-1940s by the members of Project Manhattan, an artifact that put a definitive end to World War II, but also cost the lives of tens of thousands of Japanese civilians and reshaped humanity forever.
Oppenheimer will be released on July 21, 2023.
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.
