Tag: Manhattan Project
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How Mr. Rogers And Orson Welles Helped Prepare Cillian Murphy For Oppenheimer
“Oppenheimer” marked a few significant firsts for the main creative team involved in the film. After largely focusing on original concepts, Christopher Nolan pivoted towards a biopic centered on one of the most controversial individuals in American history. Similarly, star Cillian Murphy was tasked with portraying a historical figure for the first time in his career,…
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Another Actor Beat Cillian Murphy To Oppenheimer About Four Decades Ago
Understandably, there has been a lot more interest in the life and times of J. Robert Oppenheimer after Christopher Nolan’s biographical drama has taken cinemas by storm. Nolan’s all-encompassing film, based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s Pulitzer-winning novel “American Prometheus,” gives a detailed reconstruction of what it was like to head the team that…
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Warner Bros. Almost Didn’t Hire Christopher Nolan Because of This Movie
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is currently packing out multiplexes across the world, to the delight of Universal, the studio Nolan is working with for the first time on the production and release of his film about the Manhattan Project and the making of the first atomic bomb. Nolan signed on with Universal after departing from his…
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Were Oppenheimer’s Chances Of Igniting The Atmosphere Real?
“Oppenheimer” is built around the Trinity Test, the famous 1945 event where J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists tested an atomic bomb for the first time. This historic moment is the fulcrum on which Christopher Nolan’s brilliant, horrifying film turns. Everything prior to the test focuses on Oppenheimer‘s passion for physics and beating…
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‘A Compassionate Spy’ Director Compares Ted Hall to Edward Snowden
Following the release of Christopher Nolan’s smash hit Oppenheimer, another smaller film looks to explore another controversial figure aboard the Manhattan Project. A Compassionate Spy from Academy Award-nominated Hoop Dreams director Steve James is a documentary about Theodore Hall, a young physicist who fears a future of nuclear annihilation and begins passing information to the…
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‘A Compassionate Spy’ Director Explains ‘Oppenheimer’ Connection
Though the massive event that was the opening weekend of Barbenheimer is now behind us, there is another film that would serve as a rather fitting accompaniment to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. A Compassionate Spy, the latest documentary from director Steve James who previously made the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, takes a look at a man…
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Oppenheimer Changed the World, but Never His Style
For costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, “Oppenheimer” isn’t a biopic of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Nor is it a period piece about the Manhattan Project and the unsteady aftermath of an American political class grappling with who gets to be responsible for the power to destroy the world. The Christopher Nolan film is a portrait…
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Cillian Murphy Almost Played J. Robert Oppenheimer in a 2014 TV Series
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is shaping up to be a career-defining role for Cillian Murphy. The longtime Nolan ensemble member stepped into a lead role in one of the auteur’s films for the first time, and his nuanced performance as atomic bomb inventor J. Robert Oppenheimer has made him an early Oscar frontrunner. You could even…
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A New Animated Watchmen Movie Is Coming From DC In 2024
As Christopher Nolan’s Manhattan Project study “Oppenheimer” takes over the box office this weekend, news is out that Doctor Manhattan is coming back to the big screen. Following a screening of “Justice League: Warworld” at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, DC Studios announced the first-ever animated adaptation of the beloved “Watchmen” comics is finally readying…
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After You Watch Oppenheimer, Stream This Oscar-Nominated Documentary For Free
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is finally here, providing a unique look into the mind of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. But if Nolan’s three-hour epic leaves you wanting more, here’s a cool (and free) opportunity to learn some more about that period of history. The Criterion Channel has announced that from now through July…