The Odyssey's Runtime Has Been Revealed and It's One of Christopher Nolan's Longest Films

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey won't beryllium 3 hours long... but it volition beryllium beauteous dang close. IMAX and AMC Theatres some revealed the runtime for Nolan's adaptation of the Greek epic and it clocks successful astatine a whopping 2 hours and 53 minutes.

The runtime has since been removed from these websites, but was prominently featured arsenic confirmed by my precise ain eyeballs. It's imaginable some websites jumped the weapon up of the authoritative summons presales. The Odyssey had a constricted summons presale past July, allowing fans to publication tickets to the film's opening play showings successful 70mm IMAX agelong earlier the archetypal trailer adjacent came out, but much tickets are expected to spell connected merchantability soon for modular IMAX and regular theatrical formats.

The credits could marque up arsenic overmuch arsenic 5–10 minutes of the wide runtime, but nevertheless, astatine this runtime, The Odyssey is acceptable to beryllium Christopher Nolan's second-longest movie down Oppenheimer astatine 3 hours connected the dot. Interstellar and The Dark Knight Rises would way down The Odyssey astatine 2 hours and 49 minutes and 2 hours and 45 minutes, respectively.

Christopher Nolan has historically tried to support his movies astatine 3 hours oregon less, arsenic helium prefers to sprout connected IMAX film. The platters that physically clasp the movie reels tin not withstand thing beyond 3 hours and Nolan had to enactment with IMAX to somewhat widen the platters to adjacent let for Oppenheimer's runtime. The Odyssey volition beryllium pushing close up against that bounds erstwhile again. Whether Nolan had to marque immoderate cuts successful bid to accomodate his runtime restrictions is presently unknown, but The Odyssey is simply a monolithic communicative with a batch of crushed to screen and it'll beryllium absorbing to spot however Nolan tackles each of it.

Although determination is simply a batch of hype gathering astir The Odyssey, the movie has been the taxable of immoderate contention online, specifically with regards to the casting of the Oscar-winning Lupita Nyong’o arsenic Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra. The histrion responded to the backlash by noting that she is honored to play the character, but there's thing she tin bash to quell the backlash. "I’m not spending my clip reasoning of a defense. The disapproval volition beryllium whether I prosecute with it oregon not,” she said.

Nolan has besides been criticized for "historical inaccuracies," with galore pointing retired that the accents and dialog successful the movie don't lucifer the epoch the movie is portraying. Specifically, immoderate viewers were frustrated implicit the usage of the connection "daddy," a connection that Robert Pattinson's Antinous uses to taunt Tom Holland's Telemachus. This resulted successful a batch of sermon astir the improvement of languge passim history, arsenic good arsenic whether oregon not period-accurate dialog is important to a movie.

Others person latched connected to the armor featured successful the film, arsenic immoderate of it feels a spot much theatrical than what soldiers and warriors would've worn during that time. Nolan precocious defended the armor successful an interrogation with Time magazine, noting that his portrayal is "feasible" and was made with large consideration.

“Hopefully they’ll bask the film, adjacent if they don’t hold with everything," said Nolan. "We had a batch of scientists kick astir Interstellar. But you conscionable don’t privation radical to deliberation that you took it connected frivolously.”

The speech astir the movie has been nausiating, to accidental the least.

The movie features an all-star ensemble formed including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, Charlize Theron, and many, galore others. It's expected to beryllium 1 of the biggest films of the summertime successful a stacked season, alongside the likes of Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and Supergirl.

The Odyssey volition merchandise successful theaters connected July 17, 2026.

Cade Onder is simply a freelancer for IGN's quality team. He covers each things entertainment, including gaming, film, and more. You tin find him connected Twitter @Cade_Onder.