Fact Check: Is Christopher Nolan's brother a hitman called 'Oppenheimer'?

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Fact Check: Is Christopher Nolan's brother a hitman called 'Oppenheimer'?
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A rumor has circulated online that the 'Oppenheimer' director's brother is a hitman using a codename the same as the movie's protagonist.

. The biographical drama stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the lead scientist in the creation of the atomic bomb in the 1940s that eventually resulted in the weapons that leveled the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"Learning that Christopher Nolan's fugitive hitman brother's codename is 'Oppenheimer' is actually what turned me around on him entirely as an artist," Mr. Chau wrote on Wednesday, July 19. Chau's tweet went viral. with 4.4 million people viewing the post. Thousands of others reacted to it via comments and retweets.

"Costa Rica contends that 'Mejia contacted the accused [Nolan] and for a still undetermined amount of money, hired his services, both of them planning the manner in which they would deprive the victim of his freedom, in order to later murder him,'" casetexts.com summarized. However, the site also states that"Costa Rica did not submit evidence corroborating its assertion that Mejia hired Nolan[...]for the express purpose of murdering Cohen.

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