Inside Christopher Nolan’s Move to Universal, the Only Studio That Made Sense for His Atom Bomb Movie

Imagine an atom bomb exploding high in the clouds, in IMAX.

Well, now moviegoers will get to see that image in the new $100-million movie from A-list auteur Christopher Nolan.

At the close of finalizing a deal late Monday night, Universal greenlit Nolan’s script about how physicist J.

Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project invented the atom bombs that ended World War II in August 1945.

Filming should begin, with or without rumored Nolan regular Cillian Murphy (who bears a certain resemblance to Oppenheimer), in early 2022.Universal beat out several major studios to back the project after Nolan chose to exit his 19-year, career-long, exclusive relationship with Warner Bros.

(It held international rights on Paramount’s “Interstellar.”) When WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar made the surprise December 3, 2020 announcement that the studio’s 2021 slate, including IMAX-bound “Dune,” would open day-and-date in theaters and on HBO Max, Nolan was done.For the Oppenheimer project,

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