Not long after Jason Clarke was announced to have joined Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Deadline reported yet another addition to the growing cast with Louise Lombard (After We Collided) the latest to join the film.
Lombard is known for her roles in CSI and the teen romance drama After trilogy with the fourth instalment, After Ever Happy, in post-production. It is unknown who Lombard will portray. She joins Nolan regular Cillian Murphy, who will portray physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the lead scientist of the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb during World War II. Oppenheimer “thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.”
Oppenheimer also stars Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place Part II), Matt Damon (Stillwater), Robert Downey Jr. (Avengers: Endgame), Florence Pugh (Black Widow), Rami Malek (No Time to Die), Josh Hartnett (Wrath of Man), Benny Safdie (Licorice Pizza), Dane DeHaan (Lisey’s Story), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Kenneth Branagh (Death on the Nile), Matthew Modine (Stranger Things), David Dastmalchian (The Suicide Squad), Dylan Arnold (Halloween Kills), David Krumholtz (The Plot Against America), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), Michael Angarano (This Is Us) and Jason Clarke (The Devil All The Time).
Oppenheimer is written by Nolan and is based upon the biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The film marks Christopher Nolan’s first movie for Universal and is set for release on July 21st, 2023.
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