It is difficult to imagine someone except Christopher Nolan, turning a three -hour biopic for the nuclear bomb inventor in the blockbuster. In the filmmaking categorized by a spectacle and bomb, with a trilogy of superhero films that define the era and a series of original blockbusters that are ranked among the best films of the 21st century, Nolan gave him a unique focus on the project that several other directors could fit with unique and personal touches that reflect his fascinations as a director.

It is especially his commitment to shoot with practical effects, replicating the deadly tide of the atomic bomb not with CGI, but by analogue methods such as miniatures, variable frame rates and practical explosions to turn a massive explosion set into something really apocalyptic. Combined with the script that broke the clichés of traditional biopiaEllvedic combination of color and black -white photography imaxAnd the confidence to shoot an epic film of 3 hours in less than 60 days, he turned this warning story of scientists pushing them Bleeding edge of technology too far In the film event of the decade.

But before Nolan worked on rebuilding Los Alamos' research laboratory in the Mexico Mexico Desert, two very different directors were running to bring the story to Oppenheimer: Sam Mendes and Oliver Stone.

Following "American Beauty" in 1999 and "Road to Protection" in 2002, director Sam Mendes made "Ararhead", a military film for never going to war. Starring Jake Gyllenhal, the film follows a group of Marines deployed in the war in the Persian Gulf. The film refuses to indulge in every action spectacle, instead of following the characters that are frustrated to be transferred to the outskirts of the war without playing much, if it is, a role in true fights.

Like many other films "War of Terror", the film bombed the box office, though its reputation has grown in the years to come. After the release of the film, Mendes was looking for his next project when he chosen the rights of "American Prometheus" by Kai Byrd and Martin J. Sherwin, the biography of the 721 pages of the first atomic weapon in the world.

The book writers thought Mendes's excitement to deal with the project meant they would see their work brought to life, but although it was in a hurry to develop, the project was quickly scattered. Mendes could eventually do His military film "1917", But for the writers of "American Prometheus", they lost the hope that the film would ever avoid the development of hell, while the rights of the book went from one producer to another, who then demanded a director who could handle this book on the book.

With the rights to direct a film based on American Prometheus in the air, the producers demanded a director who would not be afraid of dealing with such a difficult subject. Enter: Oliver Stone, director of controversial military films such as "platoon" and even more controversial biopia such as FC and Nixon. Stone never moved away from talking to his mind, but even the fiery brand as Stone could not wrap his head around the opportunity to adjust the book.

On the eve of the success of the film, Stone detected That he "lowered the project, because I could not find the way to its essence." After Stone's passed, the adaptation seemed to be entirely on the ice as long as the Newoufor businessman, David Vargo, did not buy the rights alone and pushed Nolan to a meeting with Nolan's production partners. Just happening, at the same time Vargo made Nolan, Nolan already had Oppenheimer thanks to A gift from the Starweet "Tenet" Robert Pattinson of Oppenheimer's speeches.

Nolan came to the ship to officially adjust the novel, and the rest is history. Stone praised the "direction of the mind and directing of Nolan's mind and audience", and the audience agreed. The film continued gross over $ 1 billionMany are usually reserved for characters dressed in scientific equipment or superhero lids, not pork suits and caps.