Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’sOppenheimerhas an all - lead cast , among them one actor who almost played Batman in Nolan’sDark Knighttrilogy , but turning it down moderate to not being consider for more of his project until now . After exploring the conception of time , indistinguishability , and free will inTenet , Christopher Nolan is preparing for the release of a project unlike any other he has done so far : Oppenheimer , a biographical motion picture telling the story of theoretic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer .
free-base on the bookAmerican Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer , by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin , OppenheimerfollowsJ. Robert Oppenheimer ( Cillian Murphy ) , the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project , and how his contributions conduct to the instauration of the nuclear bomb . Murphy is join by an all - wizard that admit Robert Downey Jr. , Florence Pugh , Emily Blunt , and more , and among them is one actor who could have star in Nolan ’s most pop projects to engagement but turn it down : Josh Hartnett .
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Josh Hartnett Turned Down Playing Batman In Nolan’s Trilogy
Oppenheimeris the first time Josh Hartnett and Christopher Nolan work together , but they could have teamed up years ago in Nolan ’s acclaimedDark Knighttrilogy , but Hartnett turn down the crack . In an interview withPlayboyback in 2015 ( via / Film ) , Hartnett revealed that the sudden celebrity that fare with his breakout role as Danny Walker inPearl Harborwas consuming and led him to not trust “ any new soul I met or their motif ” , and he chose to go back to his family line and friends in Minnesota and make humble movies . As a result , Hartnett twist down big offers , such as playing Batman in Nolan’sBatman Begins , which he decided back then was n’t for him , and rejecting this role had bigger consequences for him .
Nolan seems to have not taken it well , and even though he found his perfect Batman in Christian Bale , Hartnett saying “ no ” to playing the Caped Crusader led to him not being wander inThe Prestige , where Bale was also cast in a lead role . Luckily , Hartnett and Nolan were able to exit the past behind and he was vagabond inOppenheimer , but Hartnett is very cognizant of how his retiring choices bear upon his career for years .
Who Is Josh Hartnett Playing In Nolan’s Oppenheimer?
Josh Hartnett plays Ernest Lawrence inOppenheimer , who wish most of the lineament , is base on a real - life person . Lawrence was a nuclear physicist who in 1939 win the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cyclotron . Lawrence was also part of the Manhattan Project , forge on uranium - isotope breakup , and he was a airless acquaintance of Oppenheimer , so much so that he distinguish his son Robert after him . In 1945 , Lawrence observed the Trinity nuclear test of the first nuclear bomb , and while Oppenheimer push for no demonstration of their new weapon system to Nipponese leaders , Lawrence felt a demonstration would be impudent , and he felt great pride when a uranium dud was used without warning in the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima . Edward Lawrence died in 1958 at the age of 57 , and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were renamed after him .
