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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ Begins Filming in New Mexico

‘Oppenheimer’ cast includes a wide range and multiple award-winning actors including Robert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy

Bradley - Tue, 08 Mar 2022 18:24:42 +0000 5183 Views
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The New Mexico Film Office today announced the feature film Oppenheimer is currently filming in Abiquiu and Los Alamos, New Mexico. The film will also shoot in Los Angeles, California.


Oppenheimer is a project from one of New Mexico’s Film Partners - NBCUniversal. This production is employing thousands of New Mexicans and will be partially filmed in Los Alamos, which is only appropriate as the development of the atomic bomb is deeply tied to New Mexico,” said Amber Dodson, director, New Mexico Film Office. “We welcome Christopher Nolan and the all-star cast to New Mexico to shoot this major feature film in our state." 


Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world to save it. The film is produced by Emma Thomas, Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven, and Nolan. 
 

The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist, and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Oscar® winner 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. 


Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.


Oppenheimer also stars Oscar® winner Rami Malek and reunites Nolan with eight-time Oscar® nominated actor, writer, and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh. 


The cast includes Dane DeHaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), Jason Clarke, Dylan Arnold (Halloween franchise), David Krumholtz (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), and Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises). 


The production will employ approximately 190 New Mexico crew members and 1,200 New Mexico background and extras. 


Universal Pictures will distribute Oppenheimer theatrically worldwide and will release the film in North American theaters on Friday, July 21, 2023. The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. 


Oppenheimer will be shot on a combination of IMAX® 65mm and 65mm large-format film photography including, for the first time, sections in IMAX® black and white analog photography.

 

 

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