If there’s one thing Christopher Nolan is gonna do, it’s assemble an expensively impressive cast of big names and then turn every story into some kind of heist. Even for his first ever biopic.
Nolan’s telling of the creation of the atomic bomb under J. Robert Oppenheimer — and the secret operation that facilitated those terrifying scientific advances — appears to focus on the Los Alamos Laboratory and the purpose-built community supporting the work of the U.S. military and scientists. Alongside a lot of Matt Damon (as Manhattan Project director Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves) yelling in an officer’s uniform, we also see a dismayed Emily Blunt, a distraught Florence Pugh, a black-and-white Robert Downey Jr., and plenty more.
While we all know more or less how this story ends, Nolan’s grand take on it remains one of the most anticipated movies of the summer.
Oppenheimer is in theaters from July 21.
