British actress Emily Blunt is set to be a part of Christopher Nolan’s biopic, ‘Oppenheimer.’ She will get her place against Cillian Murphy in the universal biopic.
The biopic is based on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American Theoretical Physicist. The renowned personality is known as one of the fathers of the atom bomb.
This is Blunt’s first collaboration with Nolan, who has a history of developing relationships with actors over several films and asked Murphy to star as his main after including him in supporting roles dating back to 2005’s Batman Begins.
Blunt recently starred in Paramount’s A Quiet Place 2 and Disney’s Jungle Cruise. The casting of Emily Blunt in the lead role was first reported by Deadline.
In the upcoming project, Nolan will act as a director. And his wife, Emma Thomas, will handle the production work with Charles Roven of Atlas Entertainment.
The film is based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, which was published in 2005 and won the Pulitzer Prize.
Universal describes the project as “a thrilling paradox-driven epic thriller that plunges audiences into the breathtaking conundrum of the perplexing man who must risk world destruction to preserve it.” The release date for Oppenheimer has been set for July 21, 2023.
Emily Blunt has two films that have crossed the $100 million domestic market this year, a feat no leading actor or actress has accomplished since the box office reset.
She played her first leading role in A Quiet Place II, which has earned $160 million domestically and nearly $300 million worldwide.
Following that, she teamed up again with Dwayne Johnson for Jungle Cruise, which made $114 million domestically.