Bill Oberst Jr. to play J. Robert Oppenheimer in new film
Albuquerque, NM—Award-winning director Justin R. Romine (Afraid of Sunrise, What They Say) announced actor Bill Oberst Jr. (Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, Children of Sorrow, Circus of the Dead) is attached to play famed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Romine’s new film, Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies.
Still in development, and set in 1937, the story finds Oppenheimer, Nikola Tesla, and Albert Einstein putting their heads together in order to work through problems encountered while building the world’s first atomic weapon. Their solution is to contact the extraterrestrials who made the technology available.
“It’s a race against time, science, and everything you’ve been led to believe through misinformation by the very government that is supposed to protects us,” according to the film’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/InhabitantsofCelestialBodies). Romine asserts, “I thought, Not only would it be fun to experiment with Extraterrestrial Biological Entities, or E.B.E.s a term coined by Oppenheimer and Einstein, but also an alternate take on history told through a present day narrative and found film reel footage from 1937.”
Romine, also a film professor at University of Mexico Valencia, said he plans to launch a crowd-funding campaign for the project in the near future. Meantime, there is no word yet who will play Einstein or Tesla, but Romine is said to be reaching out to A-list actors.
Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies is slated for production in 2015.
