Interstellar, the Oscar-tipped latest offering from Christopher Nolan, looks set to be the British film-maker’s longest movie yet, with a running time of almost three hours.
A listing on a cinema website in Australia, where the much-hyped science fiction epic is due to open on 6 November, suggests the film will run for 175 minutes. That would make it a full 10 minutes longer than the final instalment in Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, which ran to 165 minutes in 2012 and was up until now the director’s longest film.
Interstellar sees Matthew McConaughey’s widower engineer embarking on a mission to find a new home for humanity by travelling through a wormhole in a desperate attempt to find hospitable planets. The film co-stars Oscar-winners Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine and Ellen Burstyn, as well as nominees Jessica Chastain and John Lithgow.
Nolan has cited Star Wars and Blade Runner as influences, but trailers for the movie have hinted at an approach closer to moon-landing movies such as Apollo 13. The British director told Comic-Con in July that the film is “about what it is to be human, and what our place is in the universe”, adding: “The further that you travel out into the universe, the more you realise it’s in [your heart].”
Interstellar is due to open in the UK and US in 7 November, a day after Australia. The film has been widely tipped for a tilt at the 2015 Oscars and its North American opening date suggests studio Paramount has one eye on the coming awards season.
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