Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan's first R rated film since 2002

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Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer has earn😼ed a surprise R rating, which means the film will be the director's first R rated effort since 2002's Insomnia.

A new TV spot for the movie confirms🌃 the news, revealing that the R rating is down to "some sexuality, nudity, and language." That's a slight surprise, given that, since the film is about the creation of the atomic bomb, violence surely seemed the likelier candidate for an R rating. 

, prints for the film – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nolan's longest – also take up a whopping 11 miles of film stock, weighing in at around 600 pounds. Now that sounds lik🧜e a truly epic movie in every s꧒ense of the word. 

"We knew that this had to be the showstopper," Nolan told the publication of the Trinity Test, AKA the first time a nuclear weapon was ever detonated. "We're able to do things with picture now that before we were really only able to do with sound in terms of an oversiz🌠e impact for the audience – an almost physical sense of response to the film."

The film also involves both 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:black-and-white and color sequences, which Nolan has shed some light upon in conversation with Total Film. "I wrote the script in the first person, which I'd never done before. I don't know if anyone has ever done that, or if that's a thing people do or not… The film is objective and subjective," the director told us in our new issue, which 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:features Oppenheimer on the cover. "The colour scenes are subjective; the black-and-white scenes are objective. I wrote the colour scenes from the first per๊son. So for an actor reading that, in some ways, I think it'd be quite daunting."

Oppenheimer arrives this July 21. In the meantime, check out our guide to all the upcoming major 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:movie release dates for everything else the year has in store.

Molly Edwards
Deputy Entertainment Editor

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things fil🍬m and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and als♔o wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in English.