Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer continues to shape its star-studded cast and has now added Matthew Modine to the film, Nolan’s first for Universal Pictures. It’s not clear who Modine is playing in the film. Modine is the latest addition to the Oppenheimer cast with The Boys star Jack Quaid and Lisey’s Story star Dane DeHaan also recently being announced. They join a powerhouse, A-list cast that also includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Cillian Murphy, and Josh Hartnett. The film is set for release on July 21, 2023.
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Oppenheimer is based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. In the film Murphy is set to play the titular Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who was the head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those credited as being “the father of the atomic bomb” for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. The weapons created by the Manhattan Project were used in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Blunt is playing his wife Katherine Vissering Oppenheimer. Pugh is set to play Jean Tatlock, a member of the Communist Party of the United States who had an affair with Oppenheimer, while Safdie will play Edward Teller, a member of the Manhattan Project considered to be the “father of the hydrogen bomb”.
Modine is no stranger to having worked with Nolan, having previously played Peter Foley in The Dark Knight Rises. Modine is also known for his roles in Full Metal Jacket, Vision Quest, Showtime’s Weeds, and Netflix’s Stranger Things, among many others.
Oppenheimer will be Nolan’s first since the end of his decades-long relationship with Warner Bros. It has been reported that Nolan’s deal with Universal gives him total creative control of the film, a $100 million budget with an equal amount to be spent on marketing, 20 percent of the first-dollar gross, a guaranteed theatrical window of 100 days, and reportedly a blackout period where the studio will not release any other movies in the three weeks preceding and following Oppenheimer‘s release.
Oppenheimer is set to opening theaters July 21, 2023.
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