Universal Pictures just released the teaser trailer for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s newest project. The flaming trailer shows off Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer standing amidst explosions.
The trailer also confirms the movie’s release date of July 21st, 2023. The Oppenheimer trailer is only available on YouTube and Twitter as a looped video in a live stream. It seems simply uploading trailers on the internet is too mainstream, or maybe the looping trailer has some more profound significance with the actual movie. Probably not.
What is the Movie About?
The movie Oppenheimer tells the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who invented the atomic bomb. The movie is less about dropping bombs and more about how he struggled to come to grips with his calamitous creation.
Christopher Nolan and the movie’s casting team left no stone unturned because the movie is studded with big names such as Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Gary Oldman, Matt Damon, Jason Clarke, Rami Malek, and Robert Downey Jr., just to name a few.
Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s first movie since Tenet, which came out in 2020. The movie was not as well received as Nolan had hoped and did not reach the heights of some of his previous projects. The film came out during the peak of the pandemic, and that must have contributed to the movie’s relatively lacking performance.
Universal describes the new Oppenheimer movie as a thriller that “thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.”
Oppenheimer is also the first movie from Nolan outside of Warner Bros. this change came about because the director was unhappy with the move toward the HBO Max streaming service.
We will have to wait a whole year to find out how well the movie does, but considering the brimming cast, Oppenheimer will probably not disappoint, especially when it is coming out on the same day as the Barbie movie.