[Deadline] Christopher Nolan’s "The Odyssey" runtime confirmed to be UNDER 3 hours per producer Emma Thomas

Nolan opened his presentation onstage by saying he was just happy he didn’t have to follow Spielberg. At Nobu, I told him I was at a brunch Sunday with three well-known film veterans — an actress, a director and a film editor — who were lamenting the movies today. “Where is Lawrence of Arabia, where is The Bridge on the River Kwai?” they complained. I told Nolan after seeing the epic look of The Odyssey, I might have an answer for them. David Lean may be gone, but his spirit lives on with this kind of huge global moviemaking and star-studded cast that only a Christopher Nolan could possibly get greenlit these days. It opens on July 17, his lucky day where his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer, among other films of his, have also opened. We all know what happened to that.

Producer Emma Thomas also guaranteed this epic film will come in under three hours, but wasn’t quite sure of the actual running time yet since they are still in post production.