Oppenheimer: How did Robert Pattinson help Christopher Nolan for his film?

Oppenheimer: How did Robert Pattinson help Christopher Nolan for his film?



Christopher Nolan confronts Oppenheimer

After Dunkirk (2017), Christopher Nolan will once again be interested in the period of the Second World War with Oppenheimer. This time the subject of him is not on the front line with the fleeing soldiers. As the title suggests, the director’s new film centers on Julius Robert Oppenheimer. The physicist is famous for his involvement in the creation of the atomic bomb. The director’s opportunity to ask moral questions about this weapon that decided the fate of the war. But at what cost…

Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer©Universal
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer©Universal

Christopher Nolan then promised a heartwarming film, which he would also have devastated early viewers. visually, Oppenheimer it should also be a great immersive experience. The director uses IMAX cameras for this. A material that makes it possible to offer a very large image frame for optimal performance when projected onto special giant screens.

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The film mentioned by principle with Robert Pattinson

After Dunkirkand before facing Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan realized it principle (2020), a sci-fi action and spy film. Worn by John David Washington e Robert Pattinson, the feature film imagines a machine that allows you to reverse time and therefore move forward into the past. A machine that, in the hands of the antagonist (played by Kenneth Branagh), could destroy the world.

John David Washington - Principle ©Warner Bros.
John David Washington – Principle ©Warner Bros.

Christopher Nolan explained in an interview (at 4min45 of the video below) that he had already started doing it call back Oppenheimer during the filming of principle. The director had discussed with Robert Pattinson, on the fact that Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project scientist”he couldn’t entirely rule out the possibility that when they activated the first atomic bomb, they might leave a chain reaction that would destroy the world“. Specify in the interview that he used this as “metaphor of Tenet“.

Subsequently, Robert Pattinson reportedly offered the director a book on Oppenheimer’s speeches from the 1950s. A job that fascinated him and thus helped him in the development of his twelfth feature film. And while Cillian Murphy landed the lead role, Nolan couldn’t return the device to the comedian by including him in his film. The director says so the star of The Batman era “very busy and in demand“.

Oppenheimer will be released in theaters on July 19, 2023.

Source: Cine Serie

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