It's been over a year since our brains and eyebrows were scorched by Christopher Nolan's explosive epic Oppenheimer. The critically acclaimed biopic of atomic bomb creator J. Robert Oppenheimer was a major Oscars success at the start of 2024, winning Best Picture and the first-ever Best Director trophy for Nolan himself.
Fresh from that success, Nolan has now set the date for his new movie (as yet untitled and, as ever, shrouded in secrecy). Deadline has confirmed that Nolan will be sticking with distributor Universal, who backed him on Oppenheimer, and that he may be reuniting with actor Matt Damon. If confirmed, this would be their third collaboration following Interstellar (2014) and Oppenheimer.
Nolan is famous for staying loyal to his cadre of actors and technicians, so we may well expect several Oppenheimer actors and filmmakers to return. Maybe Robert Downey Jr.? The actor was clearly fired up by his first collaboration with Nolan on Oppenheimer and it resulted in the actor's first Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor.
It's highly likely that cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, editor Jennifer Lame and composer Ludwig Goransson, all of whom worked on Oppenheimer, will reunite with Nolan, although nothing has been confirmed yet. There's one final detail, and this will surprise no one: Nolan's new project will be coming at us in IMAX.
That surely primes us for a feast of arresting visuals and engrossing philosophical conceits, if Nolan's previous work is anything to go by. Nolan's first IMAX venture was The Dark Knight (2008) whose opening sequence was lensed in the format. Emboldened by that experience, Nolan's subsequent films The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Interstellar (2014) employed IMAX cameras more extensively, before the likes of Dunkirk (2017), Tenet (2020) and Oppenheimer deployed IMAX for the vast majority of their running times.
Rumour has it Nolan's latest is a vampire movie set in the 1920s. Be still our beating hearts – could we be faced with the non-linear equivalent of Nosferatu? That's a very interesting prospect.
Nolan's new movie is dated for July 17th, 2026, so mark it in your calendars. If you're really committed, you can always work out the time between now and then and start counting backward to get the full Nolan experience. We won't judge you.
In the meantime, check out all the classic movies you can enjoy for just £5 at Cineworld this autumn, including re-releases of Star Wars, the original Gladiator and Horror Season films.
UPDATED: Deadline reports that Spider-Man himself, Tom Holland, is circling a role in Nolan's mysterious new epic. If confirmed, this would mark his first collaboration with the Oscar-winning filmmaker.
UPDATED: Deadline has confirmed that Anne Hathaway will appear in Nolan's new movie, making it her third collaboration with the director following The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar. She will be joined by Zendaya, recently seen in the Dune films and Challengers (and also Tom Holland's partner), who is set to make her first appearance in a Nolan film.
UPDATED: It has now been confirmed by Deadline that 12 Years a Slave Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o will appear in the movie. Nyong'o, recently seen in A Quiet Place: Day One, will be making her first appearance in a Christopher Nolan movie.
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