Although Leonardo DiCaprio stayed quiet in regards to the plot of Inception, he did reveal a small bit of intriguing information in a recent interview with Movies.ie. “I can tell you it’s about two hours long, give or take,” DiCaprio smiles. “Anything more than that, and Chris has vowed to have me strung up by my tongue…”
The comment could have been made to be intentionally vague, since I would even consider a 135 minute film to be ‘about two hours, give or take’. But what can be taken from this comment is that there is most likely a rough cut of Inception completed, possibly even being screened already.
A two hour length may seem short considering the six months of production and the ensemble cast, but outside of his Batman fims Nolan has kept his running times close to two hours. Memento is 113 minutes in length, Insomnia is 118 minutes, and The Prestige is 130 minutes. And as forum member chee noted, this comically would make Nolan a man of his word. After his second bathroom break during the BD-Live screening of The Dark Knight, Nolan joked that he would make a shorter film next time.
on March 10, 2010 at 8:26 am
Seems a bit short for such a large-scale movie. Hopefully he can tell his story in “about two hours, give or take”.
on March 10, 2010 at 8:45 am
Nolan can make a great film in two hours, I’m not worried.
on March 10, 2010 at 8:54 am
“About two hours, give or take” is not an official runtime. That can mean anything! Damn this vagueness!
on March 10, 2010 at 9:34 am
most movis runtime are approx 2 hours long…after editing and deleting scenes .
so even 135 minutes will be good enough.. give or take a few minutes:)
the movie is still going to be a blast , so just look forward to it:)
on March 10, 2010 at 1:38 pm
2 hours is too short. Hopefully it’ll be a bit longer.
on March 22, 2010 at 4:33 pm
2 hours is WAY too short. I hope it ends up longer, maybe close to the running time of the Batman films.
on April 7, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Just remember its quality not quantity people
Can’t wait for the film! July seems yonks away
on April 28, 2010 at 4:16 pm
An absolutely meaningless statement. Most movies are “around” 2 hours in length.
on May 14, 2010 at 8:06 pm
I would love to see INCEPTION between 140 to 150 minutes. INCEPTION is an event picture and event pictures have to have an epic running time. MINORITY REPORT ran for about 141 minutes. There a certain pictures where you don’t want them to finish and INCEPTION seems such a picture.