Christopher Nolan's “Oppenheimer” will hopefully hit theaters like a nuke next month. It’s really the only big studio blockbuster being released this season that is actually meant for an adult audience.
The film is set to be Nolan’s first biopic and will follow J. Robert Oppenheimer’s work on the atomic bomb during WWII.
It’s a story of immense scope and scale. And one of the most challenging projects I’ve ever taken on in terms of the scale of it, and in terms of encountering the breadth of Oppenheimer’s story.
The filmmaker has now explained why Oppenheimer switches from color to black-and-white throughout its 3 hour runtime.
Nolan told Total Film: "I wrote the script in the first person, which I'd never done before. I don't know if anyone has ever done that, or if that's a thing people do or not. The film is objective and subjective."
I wrote the color scenes from the first person. So for an actor reading that, in some ways, I think it'd be quite daunting.
Nolan goes on to explain that “the color scenes are subjective” and “the black-and-white scenes are objective.”
The film is going to be Nolan's first R-rated movie in 21 years. Cillian Murphy will play the theoretical physicist and is joined alongside the star-studded cast of Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.
As far I’m concerned, the earliest screening I’ve been invited to for “Oppenheimer” is on July 19, just two days before its release