‘Oppenheimer’ First Look: Cillian Murphy Smolders in Christopher Nolan’s Atomic Bomb Drama

The first image of Cillian Murphy as titular physicist J.

Robert Oppenheimer has been released by Universal Pictures.

“Oppenheimer” marks the first collaboration between Universal and director Christopher Nolan — who left Warner Bros.

after squabbling with the studio over the release of “Tenet” — and is slated for a July 21, 2023, theatrical release.Known as the “father of the atomic bomb,” Oppenheimer was head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and helmed the “Manhattan Project,” which first developed nuclear weapons for World War II.

He also supervised the Trinity Test, in which the first atomic bomb was successfully detonated in New Mexico.Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, with Emily Blunt playing his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer.

Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey Jr.

plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S.

Atomic Energy Commission.

Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie

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