New Oppenheimer Trailer From Batman Director Includes Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, And Florence Pugh

The next movie from acclaimed director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception) is Oppenheimer, a period film about the creation of the world's first atomic bomb. The newest trailer has arrived, and it provides the best look yet at the big-budget summer movie.

Oppenheimer follows the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the real-life physicist who led the team behind the Manhattan Project that created the world's first atomic bomb. Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders) plays Oppenheimer, a man who seems to be torn about his creation.

In addition to Murphy, Emily Blunt plays Oppenheimer's wife, Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer. Matt Damon plays General Leslie Groves Jr., the director of the Manhattan Project; Robert Downey Jr. plays US Atomic Energy Commission commissioner Lewis Strauss. Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock and Josh Hartnett portrays the nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence. Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Matthew Modine, Gary Oldman, Jack Quaid, and other big names also appear.

The movie will feature a recreation of the Trinity test, which took place in the New Mexico desert in July 1945. This was the world's first nuclear explosion. Atomic bombs were dropped by the United States military on Hiroshima and Nagaski Japan a month later.

Following the bombings, Oppenheimer reflected on his military mission and quoted from Bhagavad Gita, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

Oppenheimer the movie is based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Oppenheimer comes to theaters on July 21, 2023. It's Nolan's first new film since Tenet in 2020.