{"id":16619,"date":"2021-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numero.insinio.fr\/why-oppenheimer-will-be-one-of-the-box-office-bombs-this-summer\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:04:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:04:46","slug":"why-oppenheimer-will-be-one-of-the-box-office-bombs-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/numero.com\/en\/culture-en\/movies\/why-oppenheimer-will-be-one-of-the-box-office-bombs-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Oppenheimer Will Be One of the Box Office Bombs This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cillian Murphy in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023) \u00a9 Universal Studios<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

Fans of Christopher Nolan<\/a> can rejoice. His next film, announced for July 19, 2023, is very promising. <\/b>While the director has left Warner Bros. to join Universal<\/a> in September 2021,  the trailer for his new feature film, Oppenheimer<\/em>, hints at a major project. Announced as a grandiose biopic with a budget of one hundred million dollars and forbidden to those under 17 years old, the film tells the life of scientist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, nicknamed the “father of the atomic bomb”. An American theoretical physicist and professor of physics born in 1904,  he became the head of the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II and played a leading role in the Manhattan Project,  which led to the very first atomic bomb. A feat that quickly descends into disarray, the scientist confiding, after the detonation of the first bomb: “Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.”<\/i><\/p>\n

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Oppenheimer’s star-studded cast, from Cillian Murphy to Florence Pugh<\/h2>\n

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To play this enigmatic character, Christopher Nolan chose the 46-year-old Irish actor Cillian Murphy<\/a>, <\/b>star of the series
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\n Peaky Blinders<\/a>
\n<\/i> who is one of the filmmaker’s favorite actors. The director has already worked with him several times, notably on his films Batman<\/em> Begins <\/i>(2005), Inception<\/i>  (2010) and Dunkirk<\/i> (2017). At his side, the cast of Oppenheimer is just as prestigious : Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns<\/i>, Without a sound<\/i>) in the role of his wife,
\n Florence Pugh<\/a>
\n<\/strong> (Midsommar<\/i>, The Daughters of Dr. March<\/i>) in that of the physicist Jean Tatlock or Matt Damon<\/strong> (Jason Bourne<\/i>, The Martian<\/i>), chosen to play the project leader, Ricard Groves and Robert Downey Jr. <\/strong>(Iron Man<\/i>, Sherlock Holmes<\/i>) to play the American politician Lewis Strauss. And the supporting roles are also played by big names in the industry, from Rami Malek<\/a> (Oscar winner for his role in Bohemian Rhapsody<\/i>) to Casey Affleck<\/a> (Ocean’s Eleven<\/i>, Interstellar<\/i>) or Kenneth Branagh (Death on the Nile<\/i>, Murder on the Orient Express<\/i>)…<\/p>\n\n

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