One of the most well regarded films from the 2023 movie release schedule, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, is a triumph of historical drama. While Nolan is also known for tackling his Dark Knight Trilogy, films that seem antithetical to his more sobering work, there’s a cool link between J. Robert Oppenheimer and Bruce Wayne that the filmmaker pointed out. To be completely honest, I’d never thought about this prior to his recent remarks.
As he spoke with The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the director of pictures like The Prestige and Interstellar compared Gotham’s fictional Caped Crusader to the father of the atomic bomb with a curious connection. Christopher Nolan used this concept to draw a line between these two figures:
