
Christopher Nolan recently found his biggest hit since 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises in the atomic bomb drama Oppenheimer. It has soared into becoming one of the biggest 2023 new movie releases following its record-setting opening weekend alongside Greta Gerwig’s Barbie over the summer. As the movie concludes its one-week limited 70mm IMAX encore engagement, Nolan shared his own experience at the movie theaters with Oppenheimer.
On opening night of Oppenheimer back in July, Christopher Nolan, his wife/producing partner Emma Thomas and three of their four kids snuck into a showing of the biopic at AMC Lincoln Square in Manhattan, New York. Here’s how Nolan remembers it: