Robert Pattinson Joins Christopher Nolan’s Next Film at Universal

Robert Pattinson is re-teaming with his “Tenet” director Christopher Nolan for the filmmaker’s closely guarded project at Universal Pictures, Variety has confirmed. Pattinson joins an impressive ensemble that already includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway and Zendaya.

Universal and Nolan’s follow-up to their Oscar-winning drama “Oppenheimer” is projecting a production start date sometime in the first half of 2025. Pattinson will be quite busy in the New Year. Warner Bros. is looking to film a sequel to his 2022 blockbuster “The Batman,” in which the actor would reprise his leading turn as the DC Comics superhero. Pattinson is also starring in A24’s “Primetime,” a thriller drawing inspiration from the reality show “To Catch a Predator” that will serve as the debut narrative feature of rising filmmaker Lance Oppenheim. That indie is planning to ramp up production early next year.

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Additionally, Pattinson’s next feature, Bong Joon-Ho’s sci-fi comedy “Mickey 17,” is set to release in theaters on April 18, 2025. That $150 million production from Warner Bros., which serves as the Korean auteur’s long-awaited follow-up to his Oscar winner “Parasite,” will likely come with its own gauntlet of promotional obligations for Pattinson.

Pattinson starred alongside John David Washington in Nolan’s time-bending thriller “Tenet,” which marked the filmmaker’s final feature at Warner Bros. after a long tenure at the studio that yielded beloved hits such as “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Dunkirk” and “Interstellar.” The studio’s handling of the release of “Tenet” during the COVID pandemic strained Nolan’s relationship with his longtime home — a tension that ultimately led to the director setting up shop at Universal for “Oppenheimer.”

In what has become a popular piece of Nolan lore, Pattinson gifted a book of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s speeches to the director as a production-wrap present after principal photography wrapped on “Tenet.” Two years later, it was confirmed that the director’s next project would be a biopic on the father of the atomic bomb.

Universal has set a July 17, 2026 release date for the project, which will release in theaters and Imax.