Oppenheimer: Christopher Nolan’s Lengthiest Blockbuster So Far

Interstellar is not Christopher Nolan‘s longest movie.

In accordance with the director himself – through a brand new interview with Complete Movie – his upcoming movie Oppenheimer can be his longest film to this point, working longer than Interstellar‘s length of two hours and 49 minutes.

Whereas he has but to disclose the precise time of Oppenheimer‘s runtime, Nolan shared that it’s “kissing three hours”. “It’s barely longer than the longest we’ve performed,” Nolan mentioned.

Elsewhere within the interview, Nolan spoke of the film’s difficult lead character, saying he’s “drawn to attention-grabbing protagonists – protagonists who’ve ambiguity to them. I consider any character I’ve handled, Oppenheimer is by far essentially the most ambiguous and paradoxical. Which, on condition that I’ve made three Batman movies, is saying lots.”

Oppenheimer Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who is taken into account the “father of the atomic bomb” for his function within the Manhattan Challenge. It additionally contains Emily Blunt as spouse Katherine ‘Kitty’ Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as Basic Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Challenge, Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss.

Murphy just lately mentioned he was “determined” to play the lead function, after starring in 5 of Nolan’s previous movies in supporting roles.

Talking to Related Press, Murphy mentioned: “I’ve all the time mentioned publicly and privately to Chris, that if I’m accessible and also you need me to be in a film, I’m there. I don’t actually care in regards to the dimension of the half. However deep down, secretly, I used to be determined to play a lead for him.”