An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Op

The director of the film "Oppenheimer" tells of how he came to choose the "father of the atomic bomb" as the subject of a movie, and describes how he went about translating the physicist’s sprawling life—as laid out in the 700-plus-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, "American Prometheus"—into a single film.

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