Christopher Nolan has added so many people to the cast of his latest film, Oppenheimer, that it's starting to become easier to list people who aren't in it. Cross Matthew Modine off the latter list, as he's joining the story of the infamous scientist.
For this new film, produced for the first time by Universal rather than Warners, Nolan adapted the book American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. It'll chart how Oppenheimer played a key role in the creation of atomic weapons, yet later came to have complicated feelings about their deadly power. He lobbied for international control of nuclear power and opposed the creation of the even more destructive hydrogen bomb.
Cillian Murphy is Oppenheimer, while Emily Blunt will be his wife, Katherine. The cast also includes Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Rami Malek, Josh Hartnett, Jack Quaid and Benny Safdie. And Modine's not the only new recruit: Dylan Arnold and Olli Haaskivi also also now aboard, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
While we've learned that Arnold is on to be Oppenheimer's younger brother, Frank, Haaskivi and Modine's characters are, like several of the others, a mystery for now. Will either finally be the person that Nolan shoves into a performance capture suit to play the bomb? Yeah... Doubtful. But Modine does have recent experience with questionable science: he's part of the cast of Stranger Things, which will finally return this summer.
Oppenheimer is on schedule for a July 21 release next year.