Just this past weekend during our recording of the Reel Chronicles podcast, my colleague and I were discussing the studio possibilities for Christopher Nolan’s next film and I felt Universal Pictures would be the most obvious choice for the acclaimed director. Well, Deadline has now confirmed that Universal Pictures has landed the right to finance and distribute the next film that Christopher Nolan will direct, based on his script about J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atom bomb.
A theoretical physicist who became the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, Oppenheimer headed the research and development of the bomb that ended WWII, under what was covertly called the Manhattan Project. Nolan will produce the film alongside his wife and longtime producing partner Emma Thomas for their Syncopy Inc. banner.
Sources said that the film is now greenlighted to begin production in the first quarter of 2022.
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