"Oppenheimer" Runtime Revealed

The runtime for British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated World War II movie “Oppenheimer" has been revealed.

On the red carpet for “Air”, in which he co-stars, Matt Damon talked about Nolan’s upcoming historic drama in which he appears alongside Cillian Murphy.

“It’s three hours. It’s fantastic. Cillian is phenomenal. He’s everything you would want him to be. I think it’s almost three hours. It goes so fast, it’s great," he told Variety.

Directed by Ben Affleck, “Air” stars Damon as Sonny Velasco, who led Nike to pursue the endorsement of Michael Jordan and the creation of the Air Jordan basketball sneakers. “Air” opens April 5 and co-stars Affleck, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman and Chris Messina.

“Oppenheimer” stars longtime Nolan collaborator Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist who was integral to the Manhattan Project and the father of the atomic bomb.

It also stars Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife Katherine and Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock, who had an affair with the physicist and was a member of the Community Party of the United States.

The movie also features Benny Safdie portraying Edward Teller, a member of the Manhattan Project and a Hungarian physicist who is considered the father of the hydrogen bomb.

The cast also includes Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Michael Angarano, and Kenneth Branagh.

“Oppenheimer” would likely run longer than “Interstellar” at 169 minutes and “The Dark Knight Rises” at 165 minutes.

The biopic marks Nolan’s first project since leaving Warner Bros. The studio had released almost all the filmmaker’s movies, however, their relationship grew strained after he criticized its decision to release its entire 2021 slate simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max as a concession to the coronavirus outbreak.

The movie is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin and focuses on Oppenheimer’s research effort as the Los Alamos Laboratory director.

It is penned by Nolan and co-produced alongside Emma Thomas and Charles Roven of Atlas Entertainment.

“Oppenheimer” is set to hit theaters on July 21.