As the saying goes, there are three guarantees in this life: death, taxes, and if you’re a Hollywood star, then you will eventually be cast in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, Oppenheimer. The next actor to board Nolan’s A-Lister express is Alex Wolff, star of Hereditary, Pig, and the Jumanji franchise. We don’t have any information regarding who the 24 year old actor will be playing in the film, but with The Hollywood Reporter sharing that several actors have signed up for Oppenheimer without even being told their role, there’s a pretty decent chance Wolff himself doesn’t even know yet either.
Rocking a meaty $100 million budget, Nolan’s ambitious biopic is based on Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography ‘American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer’. Currently shooting in New Mexico, the film will tell the story of – you guessed it – J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist often dubbed “the father of the atomic bomb”, who played a major part in the Manhattan Project during World War Two before Red Scare paranoia led the US Government to accuse him of secretly being a Communist.
Cillian Murphy will be taking on the titular role, featuring alongside Wolff and a starry cast that includes – deep breath – Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz and David Dastmalchian. Phew!
Oppenheimer is due to hit cinemas on July 21, 2023. All we can say, is good luck to anyone hoping to secure a seat at THAT premiere.