Summer blockbuster season is officially here. Christopher Nolan is ready to dazzle theaters again with the release of Oppenheimer. With the film loaded and set for release, Universal Pictures have released the trailer for the film.
Oppenheimer is created from the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. The film stars Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer, along with Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey, Jr., and Florence Pugh.
The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s next film, Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy is here. The movie will detail the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first atomic bomb.
The cast is rounded out by Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Gary Oldman, Rami Malek, and more.
“They won’t fear it until they understand it,” Murphy’s titular character says in the trailer. “And they won’t understand it until they’ve used it.”
LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 16: Cillian Murphy attends the ‘Free Fire’ Closing Night Gala screening during the 60th BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square on October 16, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)
Nolan has previously said that he recreated a nuclear weapon detonation without relying on CGI effects. He detailed the difficult process during a recent interview with Total Film.
“I think recreating the Trinity test without the use of computer graphics was a huge challenge to take on,” Nolan told the outlet. “Andrew Jackson—my visual effects supervisor, I got him on board early on—was looking at how we could do a lot of the visual elements of the film practically, from representing quantum dynamics and quantum physics to the Trinity test itself, to recreating, with my team, Los Alamos up on a mesa in New Mexico in extraordinary weather, a lot of which was needed for the film, in terms of the very harsh conditions out there—there were huge practical challenges.”
While released officially on Sunday night, the trailer debuted ahead of showings of Avatar: The Way of Water throughout the weekend. Oppenheimer will be Nolan’s first film since 2020’s Tenet. It is based on the biography, American Prometheus.
Christopher Nolan is widely known for using CGI in his films only when necessary. Otherwise, he opts to use practical effects instead. For his upcoming movie Oppenheimer, which tells the story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer developing the nuclear bomb, Nolan recently revealed that he did not use CGI to recreate the first atomic bomb test.
Nolan made this revelation in a recent interview with Total Film.
“I think recreating the Trinity test without the use of computer graphics was a huge challenge to take on,” Nolan said. “Andrew Jackson—my visual effects supervisor, I got him on board early on—was looking at how we could do a lot of the visual elements of the film practically, from representing quantum dynamics and quantum physics to the Trinity test itself to recreating, with my team, Los Alamos up on a mesa in New Mexico in extraordinary weather, a lot of which was needed for the film, in terms of the very harsh conditions out there—there were huge practical challenges.”
Christopher Nolan says he recreated the first nuclear weapon detonation without using CGI for #Oppenheimer
However, this is very much on brand for Nolan, who is famous for using practical effects in his movies instead of CGI. For his last film Tenet, which starred John David Washington, Nolan found that it would be more cost-efficient if he crashed a Boeing 747 plane into a hangar instead of using miniatures or CGI. Even inhis classic superhero film The Dark Knight, Nolan decided to flip an 18-wheeler upside down in Chicago instead of using miniatures or CGI.
When the news made it to social media, Twitter erupted with jokes.
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