by A new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer is here.
Featuring woozy Blinkers‘ Cillian Murphy as famed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the film traces the scientist’s creation of the atomic bomb during the arms race after World War II.
“We imagine a future and our imaginations horrify us,” Oppenheimer says of Murphy in a voiceover as images of explosions and nuclear meltdown appear on screen.
“They won’t be afraid of it until they understand it. And they won’t understand it until they use it,” he continues.
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In other clips, we see the research team taking cover before detonating a weapon and the process of building an atomic bomb.
“The theory will only get you so far,” Oppenheimer says in another voiceover.
Elsewhere in the trailer, we see Oppenheimer’s team preparing for weapons testing in a remote location, as well as the scientist grappling with the realization of the power of his creation.
“Will anyone ever tell the truth about what’s going on here?” Oppenheimer says, as we see him telling a college guy to shut up while walking down a hallway.
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Alongside Murphy, the film also stars Marvel’s Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock, Robert Downey Jr as Lewis Strauss, Emily Blunt as a biologist, and Oppenheimer’s wife Katherine and Matt Damon as as Manhattan Project director Leslie Groves.
Rami Malek, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, David Dastmalchian, Kenneth Branagh, Jack Quaid, Gary Oldman, Alex Wolff, Benny Safdie, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Clarke and Matthew Modine, Christopher Denham and Josh Zuckerman will also be present.
Oppenheimerbased on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimeris slated for release on July 21, 2023.
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