Posted on 12/19/2022 11:26:09 AM PST by Red Badger
The epic is heading for a strange head-to-head with Barbie at the box office
Universal has released the first full trailer for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist closely associated with the invention and detonation of the first atomic bomb in the 1940s.
The tone is epic and serious as we see a montage of the bomb being devised and prepared at the Manhattan Project site in New Mexico, while Cillian Murphy, as Oppenheimer, looks on, aghast at his creation.
“They won’t fear it until they understand it, and they won’t understand it until they’ve used it,” he says in voiceover. “I don’t know if we can be trusted with such a weapon.”
Many of Tenet and Inception director Nolan’s preoccupations are present and correct: science, explosions, awe at the mysteries of the universe, fear of the cost of progress. Notably not present in the trailer is most of the incredibly starry supporting cast Nolan has assembled for the film, which includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh, as well as a reported one-scene cameo from Gary Oldman.
Nolan, who loves practical effects and shooting on film (Oppenheimer is shot on 65 mm IMAX film by regular Nolan collaborator Hoyte van Hoytema, including a world-first sequence of analogue IMAX black-and-white photography) claims to have recreated an atomic test “without the use of computer graphics” for the movie. Yikes.
Oppenheimer will be released on July 21, 2023, which is the very same day that Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s Barbie hits theaters. Barbie was recently the subject of a similarly epic, though much less serious, teaser trailer which riffs on 2001: A Space Odyssey by Nolan’s idol Stanley Kubrick.
Although the two films clearly have different tones, they both rank among the most anticipated of next year (even more so after these trailers), both boast starry casts and hot directors, and both have a reported budget of $100 million. It’s rare to see two big studio beasts such as these pitted directly against each other at the box office.
There’s an extra bit of spice to this rivalry: Oppenheimer will be distributed by Universal Pictures, in a departure for Nolan, who had stayed with Warner Bros. for 20 years before dramatically breaking with the studio over its shift toward streaming. Barbie’s distributor? Why, it’s Warner Bros.
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." J. Robert Oppenheimer
I’d much rather see this than that waterworld sequel thing.
The author writes like 💩. Obviously a product of American government schools. How many worthless teachers groomed him?
“...claims to have recreated an atomic test “without the use of computer graphics” for the movie. Yikes.”
Well, *that* is interesting. Did someone loan Nolan a spare implosion nuke?
I saw the trailer yesterday and it looked okay.
But I wonder will they vilify him or make him a hero................
A very good facsimile of an atomic explosion can be done with a ‘Fuel-Air Bomb’...............
Looking forward to it.
“Obviously a product of American government schools.”
Incomplete sentence.
Oppenheimer was a leftist turd.
I’ll take Teller over Opie any day (i.e. Edward Teller created the Hydrogen Bomb).
Yep.
>I’d much rather see this than that waterworld sequel thing.
“The Atomic Bomb Movie” was very good as was “Fat Man and Little Boy”.
Tom Cruise has posted a short video of his latest insane stunt for Mission Impossible. The amount of training he did had to take a toll on his body.
He has to be an adrenaline junky
I like his movies, especially The Prestige and Inception. Tenant was his one mistep.
He was a commie, so they'll glorify him and cast him as a victim of "McCarthyism."
Was this the one where he was sky diving?............
He was a communist and a subject of the 50s blacklisting
So he will be treated as a hero
no. its new...and dangerous..and he did six takes
https://twitter.com/TomCruise/status/1604839778125430785
I liked all those movies. I have a magician friend who refuses to see The Prestige for some reason. Inception was really very clever and well made. The Dark Knight was also excellent. Tenant was difficult, but since it went direct to the stream I watched it twice. Memento was maybe his first or one of his first, it was also pretty good and set him on this sort of genre of films. Not sure if Oppenheimer will be more straight-forward dramatic biopic or something more mysterious.
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