Christopher Nolan Shares His Experience Crafting ‘Oppenheimer’

Christopher Nolan talks with Vulture as he shares his experience with crafting Oppenheimer. Nolan addressed that he was obsessed with the end of the world. He stated, “As impressionable young people, when we were 12 or 13 years old, we were convinced we were going to die in a nuclear holocaust.” Nolan continues, “I think very much the way kids these days feel about climate change.”

Oppenheimer is a biopic based on J. Robert Oppenheimer, which is a new project for Nolan as he’s done superhero action, thriller, and war films. The film is a historical drama based on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the book American Prometheus by Martin J. Sherwin and Kai Bird. Nolan stated, “Oppenheimer’s story and Oppenheimer’s spirit have hung over a lot of my work,” he continues, “To finally address it head-on, it’s just something that I felt ready to do now.”

Oppenheimer became famous due to the atomic bomb, which is how he got the name, father of the atomic bomb. Using his new popularity he spoke to the public to speak out against nuclear procreation, but when fingers point back at him for his involvement in Hiroshima and Nagasaki he denied any claims. Nolan expressed about the movie, “The whole film is about consequences – the delayed onset of consequences that people often forget.”