Let’s be honest, a movie called The Odyssey with Christopher Nolan as its director was never going to be a 90-minute jaunt with some laughs, a frothy plot and a happy ending. This is the biggest director in the world adapting the biggest story ever written, in IMAX, with gods and monsters (not those kind, James Gunn) and the longest road home ever taken. So when Nolan said that the movie would be shorter than Oppenheimer, that still left quite a bit of wiggle room. Now, we finally know exactly how long this thing is going to be.
The Odyssey has officially landed a runtime of 172 minutes, or 2 hours and 52 minutes, which makes it eight minutes shorter than Oppenheimer. That one ran for 180 minutes and still went on to earn almost a billion dollars, winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Oh and most of it was shot in black and white too! So this is a man who likes a challenge. However, while this epic may be shorter, that’s like saying the mountain next to Everest isn’t as high.
The scale of the production sounds exactly as massive as expected, too. Nolan previously revealed that he shot more than 2 million feet of film across a 91-day shoot, while The Odyssey is also the first Hollywood feature to be shot entirely with IMAX cameras. A new IMAX camera housing, known as a “blimp,” was even created to reduce camera noise, allowing dialogue scenes to be filmed more practically in the large-format process. Nolan told Empire that he wanted to bring one of the oldest tales ever spun into “an A-budget and a big Hollywood, IMAX production”, and it’s clear he’s left nothing on the table. Except maybe a few minutes on the cutting room floor.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Who Stars in ‘The Odyssey’?
The Odyssey stars Matt Damon (Oppenheimer) as Odysseus, with Tom Holland (Spider-Man: No Way Home) as Telemachus. The huge ensemble also includes Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables), Zendaya (Dune: Part Two), Lupita Nyong’o (Black Panther), Robert Pattinson (The Batman), Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road), and Jon Bernthal(The Punisher). Nolan writes and directs the film, reuniting with Universal after the massive success of Oppenheimer.
The Odyssey is currently set to arrive in theaters on July 17, 2026.
