Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Casts Cillian Murphy, Announces 2023 Release Date
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variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaCillian Murphy will play J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist whose role running the the Los Alamos Laboratory and involvement in the Manhattan Project has led him to be dubbed the “father of the atomic bomb.” The “Peaky Blinders” star has been confirmed to take the title role in “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s upcoming historical epic.
The pair are longtime collaborators (Nolan has a stock company of players like Tom Hardy, Michael Caine and Christian Bale who have popped up in multiple films).
Nolan and Murphy previously worked together on “Batman Begins,” “Inception” and “Dunkirk.” Universal Pictures will make the $100 million film after winning the rights in a feverish bidding.
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