The Odyssey Runtime Update

We inactive don’t cognize overmuch astir The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s adjacent large movie, but we astatine slightest cognize it won’t beryllium arsenic agelong arsenic his past movie, Oppenheimer.

Nolan’s blockbuster biopic weighed successful astatine 3 hours, which was capable to trial the resoluteness of adjacent the astir experienced of cinemagoers. The Odyssey, however, volition travel successful nether that, though we don’t cognize the nonstop runtime.

Confirmation comes from shaper Emma Thomas, speaking astatine CinemaCon 2026 and reported connected by Deadline. Thomas guaranteed The Odyssey volition travel successful nether 3 hours, but was inactive unsure of the last runtime arsenic post-production is ongoing.

The Odyssey’s runtime has been a talking constituent due to the fact that of the sheer magnitude of communicative beats successful the root material. Most judge Nolan volition person to permission retired important chunks of Homer’s saga, though his movies often sprout on astatine a accelerated pace. Some fans are already joking that The Odyssey volition beryllium precisely 2 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds.

The Odyssey is described arsenic “a mythic enactment epic,” and was changeable crossed the satellite utilizing marque caller Imax movie technology. It features Matt Damon's Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca, who goes connected rather the travel to instrumentality location aft years of war.

The trailers released truthful acold amusement disconnected Tom Holland arsenic Telemachus, Odysseus's lad who is determined to find his father, a acrophobic Anne Hathaway arsenic Penelope, the woman of Odysseus, and Menelaus, the Greek king of Sparta and Agamemnon's brother, played by Punisher histrion Jon Bernthal. Scenes see Odysseus infiltrating the metropolis of Troy utilizing the legendary Trojan Horse, the Cyclops, who enters a cave filled with soldiers, and the undead rising from the crushed itself.

Damon has discussed however pugnacious it was filming The Odyssey, which helium said had a “profound” effect connected him. “If I look objectively astatine what was required to bash that job, I deliberation it came astatine conscionable the close clip successful my life,” helium revealed. “I deliberation I would've been miserable 20 years agone trying to bash that job. Because you were uncomfortable each day, but I truly enjoyed… like, profoundly enjoyed each infinitesimal of it.”

Damon has spoken astir having to slim down to his precocious schoolhouse value for the role. "I had a beard similar yours for similar a year," helium told Jason and Travis Kelce connected a caller occurrence of their podcast, New Heights. "I was successful truly bully shape. I mislaid a batch of weight. [Nolan] wanted maine thin but strong."

The Odyssey is Nolan's 13th film, aft antecedently helming Following, Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer. Such is the anticipation for the movie, that a constricted fig of The Odyssey tickets went connected merchantability past summertime — a twelvemonth successful beforehand of the movie opening.

While Nolan has agelong been celebrated arsenic 1 of the large directors of modern cinema, The Odyssey is expected to execute peculiarly powerfully pursuing the breakout occurrence of Oppenheimer, the Cillian Murphy-led biopic that fuelled 1 fractional of the Barbenheimer phenomenon. Oppenheimer earned a staggering $975 cardinal during its theatrical run, and walked distant with Best Picture astatine the Oscars.

The Odyssey hits theaters July 17, 2026.

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