re: Christopher Nolan’s 'Oppenheimer' cast adds Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr (Updated)

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EXCLUSIVE: In what would be the first major piece of casting since officially confirming Oppenheimer will be his next film, Christopher Nolan looks to have found Cillian Murphy a co-star to join him in what is believed to be an all-star ensemble. Sources tell Deadline that Emily Blunt is in talks to join Murphy in the Universal tentpole that Nolan will write and direct. Sources say she will play the wife of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy), the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the invention of the atomic bomb. The film will bow on July 21, 2023, a slot typically saved for Nolan films in the past.

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Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. have joined Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s biopic on J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the fathers of the atomic bomb.

Emily Blunt is already on board the Universal project, and with Damon and Downey now flying in, Oppenheimer has become one of the most stacked feature projects in recent memory.

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Who will Damon and Downey play?

If I had to guess, that would be Damon’s part.

Would Downey play Julius Rosenberg?

Cool, I hope he gets some nice cinematic shots of the Berkeley campus before heading off to dreary Los Alamos. Berkeley: It's not just hippies and tree-sitters!

Also, it was agreed that the University of California would run Los Alamos after scientists whom Oppenheimer was recruiting objected to working as military officers.

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Berkeley had already become the center for theoretical physics in the United States, thanks in part to the efforts of a brilliant physicist named J. Robert Oppenheimer. In the summer of 1942, Oppenheimer organized a group at Berkeley to study the feasibility and design of an atomic bomb. The group of “luminaries,” as Oppenheimer called them, included Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, John Van Vleck, Felix Bloch, Robert Serber, and Emil Konopinski.

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https://www.atomicheritage.org/location/university-california-berkeley
https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/physics/bigscience01.html
https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/physics/learning03.html
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1945/establishing_los_alamos.htm

Hanging out on the beautiful ( ) Berkeley campus:

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If you would actually click the link and read it tells you who they are both playing

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Sorry if I just naturally assumed that since it wasn't stated in the part that's quoted in the thread that it was still early news and that the specific roles could not be confirmed.

There needs to be at least one appearance of somebody playing a young Richard Feynman. Otherwise the movie is crap...

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There needs to be at least one appearance of somebody playing a young Richard Feynman.

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Andrew Garfield is kinda too old to play Feynman at Los Alamos. (Garfield is currently 38, and Feynman was 25 in 1943.) But 10 years ago, he would have been a good Feynman.

Me getting into the next Nolan movie after that last fiasco:

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t always blows me away how young he was when he was doing stuff like picking the locks on the desks at Los Alamos

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Back then, you could do a PhD in 3 years, and he did his final year from Los Alamos.