Many reviews for Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” noted that the film felt like the director’s own version of Oliver Stone’s sprawling historical epic “JFK,” and now Stone himself has weighed in on Nolan’s latest achievement.
The “Platoon” Oscar winner took to social media to deem Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” a new film classic, while also revealing he flirted with making his own film in the past about theoretical physicist and “father of the atomic bomb” J.
Robert Oppenheimer.“I sat through 3 hours of ‘Oppenheimer,’ gripped by Chris Nolan’s narrative,” Stone wrote.
“His screenplay is layered and fascinating.
Familiar with the book by Kai Bird and Martin J.
Sherwin, I once turned the project down because I couldn’t find my way to its essence.
Nolan has found it.”“His direction is mind-boggling and eye-popping as he takes reams of incident and cycles it into an exciting torrent…
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