“The Odyssey” is destined to be one of Christopher Nolan ‘s most epic movies given the subject matter, but it won’t be his longest. Speaking to the Associated Press , the Oscar winner confirmed his upcoming tentpole “is shorter” than “ Oppenheimer .”

“It’s an epic film, as the subject matter demands,” Nolan told the outlet. “But it is shorter.”

“Oppenheimer,” Nolan’s best picture-winning biographical drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, had a runtime of 180 minutes. But a three-hour length and an R rating couldn’t stop the movie from becoming a blockbuster with a whopping $975 million at the worldwide box office.…