At this point, there are so many people in the cast for Christopher Nolan's next film, Oppenheimer, that we're beginning to wonder if we're in it too. But we're not sat typing this on set in New Mexico while the director of The Dark Knight and Tenet stares meaningfully at his watch, so we suppose we're not lucky enough to be among that esteemed and increasingly numerous cohort. Still, Nolan regular Kenneth Branagh is, alongside Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz and Michael Angarano.
Cillian Murphy, as you can see from the picture at the top of the page of him in costume, is playing atomic bomb scientist Robert Oppenheimer. Even though the hat is making us worry that when he's not brooding over bomb schematics, he'll be dishing out rough justice, Peaky Blinders-style.
For Oppenheimer, Nolan is adapting the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. It'll chart how Oppenheimer played a key role in the creation of atomic weapons, yet later came to have complicated feelings about their deadly power. He lobbied for international control of nuclear power and opposed the creation of the even more destructive hydrogen bomb.
Emily Blunt is on as Kitty, Oppenheimer's wife, while the cast also includes Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Rami Malek, Josh Hartnett, Matthew Modine, Jack Quaid, Dylan Arnold, Olli Haaskivi and Benny Safdie.
Universal will release the film in cinemas on 21 July next year. Between now and then we expect to learn that 536 more people are in the main cast.