“Oppenheimer” is being released in theaters on July 21st, but there’s already this massive campaign behind the film.
A full-length trailer will stitched next to “Avatar: The Way of Water” screenings starting this Thursday and in the new issue of Total Film, which is on sale also this Thursday, Nolan talks in detail about Oppenheimer, which he describes as "a story of immense scope and scale".
The film stars Cillian Murphy as a J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who oversaw the design of the first nuclear weapons during World War 2. Murphy is joined by an incredible cast that also includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Gary Oldman and Robert Downey Jr.
Total Film released around half a dozen exclusive photos of the film. As you can see, the film will have some scenes shot in black and white. Here’s Nolan exlplaining his process further:
“I very much loved the structural assistance and the aesthetic charge of shifting between color and black and white that I had on Memento. I’d always been looking for a reason to go back to that. And in the case of Oppenheimer and the way in which we tell this story, it’s very subjectively [told], but also with a more objective story strand that intertwines with that. It was really the perfect time to go back to that device that I loved so much."
"So we challenged the people at Kodak photochem to make this work for us, and they stepped up. For the first time ever, we were able to shoot IMAX film in black-and-white. And the results were thrilling and extraordinary. As soon as Hoyte [van Hoytema, Nolan cinematographer since Interstellar] and I saw the first tests come in, we just knew that this was a format that we were immediately in love with.”
Netflix and Skydance Animation have also called it quits. The two sides announced Monday that they're ending the animated film deal struck back in 2023, framing it as a mutual decision.