There's no denying Christopher Nolan's genius as a filmmaker. Next month, the creative mind behind the award-winning The Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar, and Inception, among others, will give cinemagoers another reason to troop to theaters when his latest film Oppenheimer drops.
Recently, the director sat down for an interview with Wired where he discussed the film, including his approach to making audiences see inside the head of the protagonist, the challenges he encountered, and the surprising parallels between the atomic bomb and AI.
Apparently, the film makes for a very intense experience. In fact, the viewing experience was so intense that, when a fellow filmmaker saw it, he likened it to a horror movie. Surprisingly, Nolan felt the same way.
This revelation makes us wonder just how high the stakes are in the forthcoming film – but then, there are probably no higher stakes than the potential destruction of Earth and everything on it, including our families and friends.
With Oppenheimer, Nolan hopes to tell the story of the first atomic bomb through the eyes of the man that is largely responsible for it – J. Robert Oppenheimer. He called it a wild story and revealed his bias for the man saying "he's the most important man who ever lived."