Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Will Be Under Three Hours
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- Producer Emma Thomas has guaranteed that Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” will run under three hours, despite the film’s vast scope and ambitious...
- Thomas shared the update with Deadline, noting that while the exact runtime is still being finalized, she is confident the film will come in under the 180-minute mark.
- Nolan’s previous films have generally stayed just under the three-hour threshold, with “Interstellar” at 169 minutes and “The Dark Knight Rises” at 164 minutes.
Producer Emma Thomas has guaranteed that Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey” will run under three hours, despite the film’s vast scope and ambitious scale. The confirmation comes as the movie remains in post-production, with no final runtime locked yet.
Thomas shared the update with Deadline, noting that while the exact runtime is still being finalized, she is confident the film will come in under the 180-minute mark. This would make “The Odyssey” Nolan’s second film to approach or potentially exceed three hours, following “Oppenheimer,” which ran exactly 180 minutes.