Lupita Nyong’o is the newest star to affix Christopher Nolan’s top-secret follow-up to his Finest Image Oscar winner “Oppenheimer,” which Common will launch on July 17, 2026, The Wrap has discovered.
The movie additionally stars Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Zendaya and Anne Hathaway. Plot particulars are at the moment being stored beneath wraps.
By way of a mixture of Nolan’s devoted international fanbase, common acclaim, sturdy advertising from Common and Imax, and an natural popular culture phenomenon spawned by its shared launch with “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer” turned the highest-grossing biopic in field workplace historical past with $976 million worldwide final yr.
Then, this previous March, the movie turned the highest-grossing film to win Finest Image on the Academy Awards in 20 years. In actual fact, it was the primary Finest Image winner since “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” in 2004 to gross greater than $500 million worldwide.
Within the wake of that historic success, Nolan and his spouse/producing accomplice Emma Thomas selected instantly to keep up the connection between their firm, Syncopy, and Common, which landed “Oppenheimer” after Nolan’s public break up with longtime studio accomplice Warner Bros.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported the information.
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