"Oppenheimer" box office shocked Nolan: The timing of the release is right

Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, has been released for more than three months, with a global box office of $948 million, ranking third in the 2023 global box office list, second only to Barbie and Super Mario Bros. Movie, and even beating Tenet and Interstellar, directed by Nolan himself. Such an impressive result also made Nolan himself say "I didn't expect it at all."

Recently, in an interview with a magazine, Nolan admitted that he was surprised that "Oppenheimer" had such a high box office, but he also thought that he released the film at the right time and people just wanted to see such a story. "For some movies, the timing is too good, which is impossible to predict in advance." He said that to make a movie, it must wait two or three years before it can actually be released. The creator may try to guess the audience's interests and preferences in advance, "but sometimes you just catch a wave of trends, and it happens that the story we tell is what the current audience has been waiting to see."

Nolan also expressed his concerns about the nuclear weapons conflict involved in the film. He said: "The terrible reality about nuclear weapons is that people's concerns will rise and fall with the geopolitical situation, but it shouldn't be like this. The threat has always existed, but sometimes an event will make it pay attention, but it shouldn't be like this. This crisis will linger on the earth and never leave."