Christopher Nolan Wrote ‘Oppenheimer’ Script in First Person as Oppenheimer, Including Stage Directions: ‘I’ve Never Done That Before’

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Christopher Nolan Wrote ‘Oppenheimer’ Script in First Person as Oppenheimer, Including Stage Directions: ‘I’ve Never Done That Before’
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Christoper Nolan revealed to Empire magazine that he did something during the development of “Oppenheimer” that he’s never done before in his over-two decades of making movies: He…

” that he’s never done before in his over-two decades of making movies: He wrote a script in the first person.

When sending the finished “Oppenheimer” screenplay to his visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson, Nolan stressed to him that “we have to find a way into this guy’s head. We’ve gotta see the world the way he sees it, we’ve gotta see the atoms moving, we’ve gotta see the way he’s imagining waves of energy, the quantum world. And then we have to see how that translates into the Trinity test. And we have to feel the danger, feel the threat of all this somehow.

The majority of “Oppenheimer” is told from the perspective of the title character who led the Manhattan Project in creating the atomic bomb. He’s played by Cillian Murphy.

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