Cillian Murphy joins Nolan for 'Dunkirk'

Irish actor Cillian Murphy is working with director Christopher Nolan for a fifth time, having joined the cast of wartime evacuation movie "Dunkirk."

Murphy featured in all three of Nolan's films in the "Dark Knight" trilogy as well as in dream-state thriller "Inception," and adds to a growing cast of British and Irish names for the historical piece.

Tom Hardy ("Mad Max"), Mark Rylance ("Bridge of Spies"), and Kenneth Branagh ("My Week with Marilyn") are other big names already attached.

Also involved in the project are a crop of younger, rising stars, as The Wrap notes in its report on the Murphy news.

Jack Lowden and Aneurin Barnard (both of Lifetime's "War & Peace"), while Fionn Whitehead looks to make a feature film debut, as does Harry Styles of pop group One Direction.

"Dunkirk," which tracks a 1940 rescue operation evacuating 338,000 Allied troops from northern France, is set for theatrical release in July 2017.