Believe it or not, Oppenheimer won’t be the first time Cillian Murphy has played a physicist named Robert who is responsible for a bomb that will change the course of human history.
In 2007, he starred as physicist Robert Capa in Danny Boyle’s Sunshine, a sci-fi thriller set aboard a spaceship in 2057.
The sun is dying, and the film follows a crew of eight tasked with launching a massive “stellar bomb” into the sun to reignite it in humanity’s last hope of preserving life on Earth.
As the ship, Icarus II, makes its way toward the waning but still deadly star, things, of course, begin to go wrong, due in part to human error, in part to human evil, and in part to the terrifying whims of nature.
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