Oppenheimer is certainly one of the most anticipated titles of this year. Among various memes that see us alternating outfits go see Christopher Nolan‘s new effort on the same day as Margot Robbie’s Barbie, the genesis of the atomic bomb signed by the Oscar-winning director is tempting to practically all cinephiles. Now we know that this awaited film will have a very considerable duration.

This was confirmed to Variety by Matt Damon who, on the red carpet of his new film Air, reveals that Nolan Oppenheimer’s new film – in which he appears alongside Cillian Murphy – will have a duration of 3 hours. “It’s three hours. It’s amazing,” Matt Damon said. “Cillian is phenomenal. She is everything you wish she was. I think it’s almost three hours. She goes so fast, it’s amazing.”

What we know about Oppenheimer, the new film by Christopher Nolan

Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy, Nolan’s longtime collaborator, as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and father of the atomic bomb. The all-star cast also includes Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, Dane DeHaan, Jack Quaid, Matthew Modine, Alden Ehrenreich, David Krumholtz, Michael Angarano and Kenneth Branagh.

Oppenheimer will arrive in Italian cinemas on July 20, 2023, distributed by Universal Pictures. This is Nolan’s first film for Universal Pictures following his long career at Warner Bros. It is based on Kai Bird’s novel American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and focuses on the physicist’s research effort as director of the Los Alamos laboratory. Oppenheimer thus takes the audience into the gripping and paradoxical story of an enigmatic man who, in order to save the world, must first risk destroying it.

The film, for the first time ever, includes sections in black and white IMAX analog photography. It is produced by Emma Thomas, Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan.