Though it already has almost every prominent acting name you can think of attached, director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer continues to round out its supporting cast, adding Dawn of the Planet of the Apes star Jason Clarke and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star Louise Lombard to the upcoming biopic. Coming courtesy of Deadline, the details of Clarke and Lombard’s roles in Oppenheimer are currently unknown, but they will join Peaky Blinders actor Cillian Murphy who leads the project as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.

Jason Clarke is known for roles on both the big and small screen and is best known for roles in the likes of Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Lawless (2012), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Everest (2015), Mudbound (2017), First Man (2018), Pet Sematary (2019), and Terminator Genisys (2015). Though, maybe we shouldn’t mention that last one. Most recently, Clarke starred as Jerry West in the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, which is due to conclude later this month.

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Louise Lombard, meanwhile, is an English actress known for her roles in the BBC drama series The House of Eliott, the CBS drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and the romantic drama After We Collided.

Clarke and Lombard join what is possibly the most stellar cast in cinematic history. So far, Oppenheimer stars Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Dylan Arnold, Olli Haaskivi, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Michael Angarano, Kenneth Branagh, David Dastmalchian, Scott Grimes, and Christopher Denham. One can only imagine what the Oppenheimer casting budget is…

Oppenheimer Will See Cillian Murphy Take the Lead in a Christopher Nolan Movie for the First Time

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Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer will see the seminal director of such blockbuster classics as The Dark Knight and Inception move away from frequent collaborator Warner Bros. for the first time. Instead, Universal Pictures, who reportedly won what was surely a dramatic bidding war for Oppenheimer, will distribute Nolan’s next project. Oppenheimer is based on the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwi, the story will follow Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who contributed towards the Manhattan Project that led to the invention of the atomic bomb.

Universal recently revealed our first look at Batman Begins star Cillian Murphy in the title role of Oppenheimer. Perfectly displaying the haunted expression of the repentant scientist, the image casts Murphy in stark black-and-white, recreating an iconic image of the real-life Oppenheimer himself.

While Oppenheimer is a biopic, the movie is expected to approach the tortured scientist’s story with the usual, unusual vision of Christopher Nolan. “The difference with this one is the story is there, everybody knows what happened. But Chris is telling it in a different way, as with Chris you would expect,” star Cillian Murphy has previously teased. “That’s all I can say. Is it focused on a particular period of his life? The Manhattan Project, perchance? I’m not going to say. They’d kill me — they’re so strict!”

Oppenheimer is scheduled to be theatrically released by Universal Pictures on July 21, 2023.