Josh Hartnett joins Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Christopher Nolan has added “Pearl Harbor” star Josh Hartnett to the solid of his subsequent directorial enterprise “Oppenheimer”.

The Universal Pictures mission is a biopic of J Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist remembered as one of many fathers of the atom bomb.

Sources informed Deadline, Hartnett is the most recent addition to the bevy of stars already starring within the movie.

Details of his character are unknown at the moment.

Previously introduced solid consists of Cillian Murphy, who is about to star within the title function, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, and Benny Safdie.

Hartnett’s casting goes again to the time when Nolan was focused on him taking part in Bruce Wayne earlier than ultimately roping in Christian Bale for the job in “Batman Begins”, which additionally starred Murphy as Dr Jonathan Crane/ The Scarecrow.

“Oppenheimer” relies on the Pulitzer Prize-winning e book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin.

Nolan will write and direct the movie, whereas his inventive companion and spouse Emma Thomas will produce with Charles Roven of Atlas Entertainment.

The film is slated for a July 21, 2023 arrival, a date synonymous with Nolan’s earlier movies launch.

The “Oppenheimer” launch additionally comes roughly two weeks earlier than the anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima.

Universal had no remark.

Hartnett will subsequent reunite together with his “Wrath of Man” director Guy Ritchie on “Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre” and star in “The Fear Index”, a Sky TV sequence.