Oppenheimer: Universal Pictures today released the new trailer and poster for Oppenheimer, the new film by Christopher Nolan starring Cillian Murphy which will debut in cinemas on August 23, 2023.

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX historical thriller that takes audiences into a gripping paradoxical story of an enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.

The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist, and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Academy Award winner Matt Damon plays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, the founding commissioner of the US Atomic Energy Commission. Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber, and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.

Oppenheimer also stars Academy Award winner Rami Malek in his cast. Additionally, this film sees Nolan reunite with eight-time Academy Award-nominated actor, writer, and director Kenneth Branagh. The cast also includes Dane DeHaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), Dylan Arnold (Halloween series), David Krumholtz (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight – The Return) and Josh Peck (Drake & Josh, How I Met Your Father).

Here is the Oppenheimer Movie official trailer:

The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. The film is produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven of Atlas Entertainment, and Christopher Nolan.

Oppenheimer is shot in both IMAX 65mm and large format 65mm film which includes, for the first time ever, sections in black and white IMAX® analog photography.

Nolan’s films, including Tenet, Dunkirk, Interstellar, Inception, and the Dark Knight trilogy, have grossed more than $5 billion at the worldwide box office and have been honored with 11 Academy Awards and 36 nominations, including two Best Picture nominations.

Here’s the Oppenheimer movie poster: