Shadow Makers is a movie novelization written by Robert Marshall in 1990 and based on the movie Fat Man and Little Boy, directed by Roland Joffé in 1989. The movie features Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, Ron Frazier, and others.
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Storyline
In reality, Robert Oppenheimer held the scientific leadership of the Manhattan Project, a covert wartime initiative located in New Mexico, responsible for the creation and construction of the initial atomic bombs. Overseeing the project as a whole was General Leslie Groves. This movie depicts the project’s events, focusing particularly on the dynamic between Oppenheimer and Groves.
Movie vs Book
Year
1989
Minutes
127
Movie Rate
6.50
Source: IMDb
Movie
Fat Man and Little Boy
Director: Roland Joffé
Country: USA
Year: 1989
Length: 2h7m
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Year
1990
Pages
224
Book Rate
7.14
S: Goodreads
Book
Shadow Makers
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“I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.”
BRET EASTON ELLIS (Writer)
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