"Oppenheimer" Sets Digital Release with over 3 Hours of Special Features

Soon the audience will be able to watch Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster movie “Oppenheimer” from the comfort of their own home.

The movie will be available on digital, 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on November 21. 

The release includes over 3 hours of special features and comes exactly four months after its theatrical release on July 21, when “Barbenheimer” took the world by storm and broke box office records. 

So far, it’s surpassed $940 million at the global box office, which is unheard of for an R-rated, three-hour biopic. 

It is also expected to be a major Oscar contender, with nominations for best picture, director, lead actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, adapted screenplay, production design, cinematography, editing, sound, visual effects, and score in play.

The movie depicts the creation of the nuclear weapon by J. Robert Oppenheimer (Played by Cillian Murphy), a physicist who was integral to the Manhattan Project and known as the father of the atomic bomb.

Emily Blunt stars as Oppenheimer’s wife Katherine and Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock, who had an affair with the physicist and was a member of the Community Party of the United States.

It will also feature Benny Safdie portraying Edward Teller, a member of the Manhattan Project and a Hungarian physicist who is considered the father of the hydrogen bomb.

The cast also includes Rami Malek, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Michael Angarano, and Kenneth Branagh.

Universal Pictures produced the $100 million movie after winning the rights in a feverish bidding war with the likes of Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros.

The biopic marks Nolan’s first project since leaving Warner Bros. The studio had released almost all the filmmaker’s movies, however, their relationship grew strained after he criticized its decision to release its entire 2021 slate simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max as a concession to the coronavirus outbreak.

The movie, like previous Nolan movies such as “Dunkirk” and “The Dark Knight”, will be filmed with IMAX cameras.

“Oppenheimer” is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin and focuses on Oppenheimer’s research effort as the Los Alamos Laboratory director.

It is penned by Nolan and co-produced alongside Emma Thomas and Charles Roven of Atlas Entertainment. The runtime for the pic clocks in three hours.