Jack Quaid joins the cast of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

Last Updated on February 22, 2022

Much like an atom bomb, the cast of Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer is blowing up. Deadline has revealed that Jack Quaid (The Boys, Scream) is joining the cast of Nolan’s next epic. This movie is exploding with star power thanks to actors like Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, and Cillian Murphy.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie will be the filmmaker’s first directorial effort since 2020’s Tenet. The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. In addition to directing the feature, Nolan will also write the script and produce alongside Emma Thomas and Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven. Oppenheimer will detonate in theaters on July 23, 2023, roughly two weeks before the anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer movie has been described as an “epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world to save it.” Cillian Murphy will star as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who helped to develop the A-bomb during World War II. As for the rest of the cast, Florence Pugh will play Jean Tatlock, “a member of the Communist Party of the United States who has an off-and-on affair with Oppenheimer and was the cause of major security concerns for government officials” and Benny Safdie will play Edward Teller, “the Hungarian physicist who is known as the father of the hydrogen bomb and a member of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. research initiative that developed the first atomic bomb.” Rami Malek will play a fellow scientist, with Emily Blunt playing Oppenheimer’s Wife, Katherine; Matt Damon playing Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project; and Robert Downey Jr. playing Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Quaid is enjoying the sweet life right now after starring in The Boys for Amazon Prime Video, Scream, and the CBS All Access animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. Soon he’ll add another notch to his belt by starring in Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which is sure to do gangbusters at the box office later this year.