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Christopher Nolan said the biography served as an extraordinary "Bible" for his Oppenheimer film and noted it had won the Pulitzer Prize.
I had this extraordinary sort of Bible, American Prometheus, that was written, you know, Martin Sherwin, who first started writing it, he spent 25 years researching Oppenheimer's story and speaking to...
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Christopher Nolan said the biography served as an extraordinary "Bible" for his Oppenheimer film and noted it had won the Pulitzer Prize.
I had this extraordinary sort of Bible, American Prometheus, that was written, you know, Martin Sherwin, who first started writing it, he spent 25 years researching Oppenheimer's story and speaking to everybody who knew him and, you know, all the rest. By the time he and Kai Bird finished to put the book out, it won the Pulitzer Prize, you know, I had this extraordinary sort of Bible to work from.