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There’s a time that film captures a deeper and greater meaning, reflecting on the current state of the world, and echoes haunting memories of our human history. 

The infamous quote from J. Robert Oppenheimer, “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds,” which is documented in Christopher Nolan’s latest war biopic, prepares to hit screens in July 2023.

In the 1940s during World War II when Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist, was appointed as the director of “The Manhattan Project,” where he led a team of scientists to work on and develop the atomic bomb.

The man is called, “The Father of Atomic Bomb” and his team’s success in developing the weapon would give the US the edge in WWII, and it paved the way for their post-war power and what was to follow in the Cold War with the USSR.

But it became obvious that the world would never be the same after Oppenheimer’s invention; arguably the deadliest device ever conceived by human history.

 

Based on a Pulitzer-Prize winning biography by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Nolan looks to use Oppenheimer to demonstrate the psychological aspect of the bomb’s invention.

The role of Oppenheimer marks 4th collaboration between Murphy and Nolan—after appearing in “Dunkirk,” “Inception,” and “Batman Begins,” Murphy addressed his role in Variety last year saying, “[I prepped by doing] an awful lot of reading… I’m interested in the man and what [inventing the atomic bomb] does to the individual. The mechanics of it, that’s not really for me — I don’t have the intellectual capability to understand them, but these contradictory characters are fascinating.”