He regarded the script for MGM’s big-budget portrayal, The Beginning or the End, as poor, even laughable.

Would he have signed off on Nolan’s script? The producer of the one major docudrama that did appear during Oppenheimer’s lifetime-less than two years after the US detonated its atomic bombs over Japan-sought the physicist’s input and approval, and in that crucial role, “Oppie” succumbed to pressure. (Matt Damon plays Groves.) But what all of these wildly varying depictions and storylines have in common is this: Oppenheimer, who died in 1967, wasn’t around during their creation to advise, inform, or approve. In the latest film, Nolan gives Oppenheimer star treatment via the charismatic Cillian Murphy. Maisel), Oppenheimer was a fringe character, again played by an obscure actor, Daniel London. In WGN’s little-watched 2014 series Manhattan (co-star Rachel Brosnahan had yet to become Mrs. That same year, David Strathairn portrayed Oppenheimer in the TV movie Day One, and later in a PBS “American Experience” episode about the physicist’s security clearance ordeal, The Trials of J. Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project’s tyrannical military director. Nine years later, Roland Joffe’s big-budget studio drama, Fat Man and Little Boy, foolishly cast the relatively unknown Dwight Shultz opposite megastar Paul Newman, who portrayed Gen.

The renditions include actor Sam Waterston’s much-honored depiction in the seven-part Oppenheimer series in 1980 for PBS. Robert Oppenheimer, so-called Father of the Atomic Bomb and alleged national security risk, has been portrayed in fictionalized film and TV dramas for more than 75 years, long before director Christopher Nolan placed him at the center of his new biographical thriller. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.

Scat gay movies