Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Adds Guy Burnet & Danny Deferrari
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Guy Burnet (Counterpart) and Danny Deferrari (Shiva Baby) are the latest additions to the cast of Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer for Universal.They join an ensemble led by Cillian Murphy that also includes Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, David Dastmalchian, Olli Haaskivi, Jason Clarke, James D’Arcy and Michael Angarano, as previously announced.In Nolan’s latest, which 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, Murphy plays the theoretical physicist whose work on the Manhattan Project led to the atomic bomb.
The film is paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.Nolan is directing from his own script and is producing alongside Emma Thomas and Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven.
Deferrari play Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor. Details with regard to the character Burnet is playing have not been disclosed.
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