Louise Lombard Joins ‘Oppenheimer’; ‘Harold And The Purple Crayon’ Adds Camille Guaty
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Louise Lombard (After franchise) has signed on to a role in Christopher Nolan’s Universal Pictures thriller Oppenheimer.She joins a stacked ensemble led by Cillian Murphy that also includes Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, Michael Angarano, David Dastmalchian and Jason Clarke, as previously announced.In Nolan’s latest, which is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J.
Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin, Murphy plays the theoretical physicist of the same name, whose work on the Manhattan Project led to the invention of the atomic bomb.
The epic thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.Nolan is directing from his own script, and is producing alongside Emma Thomas and Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven.
The film is slated to debut in theaters on July 21, 2023.Lombard is perhaps best known for her turn as Trish in the Vertical Entertainment films After We Fell and After We Collided, adapted from the bestselling books by Anna Todd, and will next year reprise her role in the franchise’s fourth title, After Ever Happy.
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