DirectorChristopher Nolan’s next movie, which is about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb, could beat a movie record set by James Bond film Spectre. Nolan’s follow-up to Tenet will see him return to World War II, after previously directing 2017’s Dunkirk, but for a very different kind of war movie. Rather than promising an action-heavy movie like that, this sounds like something that should be more of an introspective drama and character study of one of the most important minds of the 20th Century.
Oppenheimer was among those involved in the Manhattan Project, developing nuclear weapons for use during World War II. The atomic bomb was later used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, though he later took something of a stance against such weapons, lobbying against the nuclear arms race and the development of the hydrogen bomb. All of this will presumably be covered in Nolan’s new movie, which will be released by Universal rather than his usual home of Warner Bros., but given the director’s penchant for spectacle it does leave some intriguing prospects up in the air.
