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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey won’t be three hours long… but it will be pretty dang close. IMAX and AMC Theatres both revealed the runtime for Nolan’s adaptation of the Greek epic and it clocks in at a whopping 2 hours and 53 minutes. <\/p>\n
The runtime has since been removed from these websites, but was prominently featured as confirmed by my very own eyeballs. It’s possible both websites jumped the gun ahead of the official ticket presales. The Odyssey had a limited ticket presale last July, allowing fans to book tickets to the film’s opening weekend showings in 70mm IMAX long before the first trailer even came out, but more tickets are expected to go on sale soon for standard IMAX and regular theatrical formats.<\/p>\n
The credits could make up as much as 5\u201310 minutes of the overall runtime, but nevertheless, at this runtime, The Odyssey is set to be Christopher Nolan’s second-longest film behind Oppenheimer at 3 hours on the dot. Interstellar and The Dark Knight Rises would trail behind The Odyssey at 2 hours and 49 minutes and 2 hours and 45 minutes, respectively.<\/p>\n
Christopher Nolan has historically tried to keep his movies at 3 hours or less, as he prefers to shoot on IMAX film. The platters that physically hold the film reels can not withstand anything beyond 3 hours and Nolan had to work with IMAX to slightly extend the platters to even allow for Oppenheimer’s runtime. The Odyssey will be pushing right up against that limit once again. Whether Nolan had to make any cuts in order to accomodate his runtime restrictions is currently unknown, but The Odyssey is a massive story with a lot of ground to cover and it’ll be interesting to see how Nolan tackles all of it.<\/p>\n