Christopher Nolan Reunites With VFX Studio DNEG for ‘Oppenheimer,’ Their Eighth Movie Together
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorChristopher Nolan will team up with VFX studio DNEG for his upcoming film “Oppenheimer.” This marks the eighth collaboration between Nolan and the studio.Andrew Jackson serves as production visual effects supervisor.
Jackson was nominated for his work on “Mad Max: Fury Road” and took home the Oscar for best achievement in visual effects for Nolan’s 2021 release, “Tenet.” Giacomo Mineo, whose credits include “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Bohemian Rhapsody,” is DNEG’s in-house VFX supervisor.While little is known about the film’s plot, Cillian Murphy plays J.
Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who was dubbed the “father of the atomic bomb.” As the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico , he held a large role in the Manhattan Project during World War II, which developed the first nuclear weapons.
Florence Pugh plays Jean Tatlock, a psychiatrist, physician and communist party member, and Benny Safdie is set to play Edward Teller, who is known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb.” He was an early member of the Manhattan Project along with Oppenheimer, but later testified against him at his security hearing during the Red Scare, according to the Atomic Heritage Project.Nolan’s story is based on Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J.
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