As the director of hit movies The Odyssey, Dunkirk and Interstellar, Christopher Nolan is well acquainted with telling dramatic stories.
But one little-known episode from his own family’s past was as dramatic as any Hollywood movie script – when his older brother was accused of having been the hitman behind a transcontinental gangland assassination.
In the legal fallout from the case, Christopher himself personally intervened to beg a judge to show his troubled brother mercy, never-before-seen documents reveal.
And in an extraordinary coincidence it was alleged that his ‘hitman’ brother used the codename ‘Oppenheimer‘ – which 15 years later would be the title
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