Oliver Stone teases ‘Oppenheimer’ offer but dropped it: Here’s why

When Oliver Stone watched Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece, Oppenheimer, he only had good things to say. But the Oscar winner filmmaker also revealed something that he did not before: an offer to make a film on J. Robert Oppenheimer.

However, the JFK director turned down the proposal because, in his words, “he couldn’t find its essence.”

“Saturday, I sat through 3 hours of Oppenheimer, gripped by Chris Nolan’s narrative. His screenplay is layered & fascinating. Familiar with the book by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin, I once turned the project down because I couldn’t find my way to its essence. Nolan has found it,” the 76-year-old tweeted.

The Oscar winner showered praise on the auteur’s direction in the WWII science epic as “mind-boggling and eye-popping.”

The famed director also gushed over the cast, especially the lead, Cillian Murphy.

“Each actor is a surprise to me, especially Cillian Murphy, whose exaggerated eyes here feel normal playing a genius like Oppenheimer,” the 76-year-old said.

Concluding the post, Stone added that Oppenheimer is a “classic” that he “never believed could be made in this climate.”

On the other hand, Nolan-helmed Oppenheimer continued its winning streak as the film has crossed $230M at the global box office.