Charlize Theron teams up with Christopher Nolan for his next movie

Charlize Theron (“Monster”) is the latest Oscar winner to join the cast of Christopher Nolan‘s next movie, following the likes of Matt Damon (“Good Will Hunting”), Anne Hathaway (“Les Misérables”), and Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”).

In addition, Robert Pattinson was announced last week, and lovebirds Tom Holland and Zendaya joined the cast previously. It looks like everyone in Hollywood now wants to work with Nolan following the success of his 2023 blockbuster “Oppenheimer,” which won seven total Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director.

Little is known about the new film that’s directed, written, and produced by Nolan for Universal Pictures, except that it will be an “event” and it will have an IMAX theater release on July 17, 2026. That’s — checks calendar — a whopping 20 months away. If only we had the ability to fast-forward through time, like Nolan’s central character in “Interstellar” (2014).

This marks Theron’s first career collaboration with Nolan. In the years since winning the Best Actress Oscar for “Monster” (2003), Theron has received two additional Best Actress nominations for “North Country” (2005) and “Bombshell” (2019).

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Pattinson previously worked with Nolan in “Tenet” (2020), Hathaway in both “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012) and “Interstellar,” and Damon in both “Interstellar” and “Oppenheimer.” Meanwhile, it will be the first time working with the filmmaker for Nyong’o, Holland, and Zendaya.

The project is in pre-production right now and is expected to start shooting in early 2025. It’s suspected that all of the loglines and plot descriptions floating around the internet are fake, so feel free to ignore them until the studio itself releases a summary of the film.

In March 2024, Nolan won the first two Oscars of his esteemed career, for directing “Oppenheimer” and for producing the biopic with Emma Thomas and Charles Roven. He also earned a nomination for writing the screenplay that was adapted from the biography “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

Nolan previously contended at the Academy Awards for writing “Memento” (2001), for writing and producing “Inception” (2010), and for directing and producing “Dunkirk” (2017).

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