Oppenheimer trailer: Christopher Nolan film gives sneak peek into life of Robert Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project

We are soon introduced to the film’s star cast comprising Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh and many others who play characters based on real-life persons and how they, in one way or the other, contributed to the Manhattan Project.

Though Oppenheimer and Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves Jr. (Matt Damon) are shown justifying the move in the beginning, with Groves saying, “This is the most important thing to ever happen in the history of the world,” things start getting tense once Groves asks Oppenheimer the question that he should have asked long ago: “So, there’s a chance that when we push that button, we destroy the world?” They, however, go ahead with the plan since they believed it could end World War II, but what awaited Oppenheimer later was blame for giving human beings the power to destroy themselves when the world was not prepared.

Filled with jaw-dropping shots that are beautifully made with visual effects and near-to-perfect sets that one can find in Nolan movies, the film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer”, written by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nolan and Oscar-nominated cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema have given Oppenheimer an epic visual style, lensing with large-format film, involving Imax cameras and including stark black-and-white cinematography. The film will be released on all of the premium large formats including Imax 70mm, 70mm and Dolby Cinema.