The official running time for Christopher Nolan’s hotly-anticipated World War II epic Dunkirk has been revealed, and the film will run for just 107 minutes.
That is the shortest of his career since his 1998 directorial debut Following, and the first of his films to be below two hours since Insomnia in 2002. It’s also an hour and two minutes shorter than Nolan’s last movie, the 2014 sci-fi Interstellar.
The running time makes a refreshing change to many of this summer’s big blockbusters, with the likes of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Wonder Woman and Transformers: The Last Knight all heading towards the two-and-a-half hour mark.
“Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.”
Dunkirk is set for release on July 21st 2017 and features a cast that includes Nolan regulars Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy alongside Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Tom Glynn-Carney and newcomer Fionn Whitehead.
Originally published June 22, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
