Christopher Nolan has added so many individuals to the solid of his newest movie, Oppenheimer, that it is beginning to turn into simpler to record individuals who aren’t in it. Cross Matthew Modine off the latter record, as he is becoming a member of the story of the notorious scientist.

For this new movie, produced for the primary time by Common fairly than Warners, Nolan tailored the ebook American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Chook and Martin J. Sherwin. It will chart how Oppenheimer performed a key function within the creation of atomic weapons, but later got here to have sophisticated emotions about their lethal energy. He lobbied for worldwide management of nuclear energy and opposed the creation of the much more damaging hydrogen bomb.

Cillian Murphy is Oppenheimer, whereas Emily Blunt shall be his spouse, Katherine. The solid additionally contains Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Rami Malek, Josh Hartnett, Jack Quaid and Benny Safdie. And Modine’s not the one new recruit: Dylan Arnold and Olli Haaskivi additionally additionally now aboard, based on The Hollywood Reporter.

Whereas we have realized that Arnold is on to be Oppenheimer’s youthful brother, Frank, Haaskivi and Modine’s characters are, like a number of of the others, a thriller for now. Will both lastly be the individual that Nolan shoves right into a efficiency seize go well with to play the bomb? Yeah… Uncertain. However Modine does have latest expertise with questionable science: he is a part of the solid of Stranger Issues, which is able to lastly return this summer season.

Oppenheimer is on schedule for a July 21 launch subsequent 12 months.