Hollywood is abuzz about a new movie by Christopher Nolan slated to come out in summer 2023 about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Berkeley professor who became the research director of the Manhattan Project and developed the atomic bomb.* There have been other books, movies, TV series, even an opera, about Oppenheimer in the past. Apparently, this version is expected to be a blockbuster, filmed for IMAX, with a high-profile star cast. Cillian Murphy will play Oppenheimer, alongside Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., and Rami Malek.
Filming of Oppenheimer is currently taking place at UCLA. Filming is also going on in New Mexico. Nolan's previous film, a sci-fi time-travel action movie entitled "Tenet," included a reference to Oppenheimer as the image above shows.
Although Oppenheimer was a faculty member primarily at Berkeley, so far there has been no filming reported on that campus.
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