Let's be honest, a movie called The Odyssey with Christopher Nolan as its director was never going to be a 90-minute jaunt with some laughs, a frothy plot and a happy ending. This is the biggest director in the world adapting the biggest story ever written, in IMAX, with gods and monsters (not those kind, James Gunn) and the longest road home ever taken. So when Nolan said that the movie would be shorter than Oppenheimer, that still left quite a bit of wiggle room. Now, we finally know exactly how long this thing is going to be.

Demand for IMAX 70mm screenings of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Odyssey has been so high that ticket buyers reportedly faced hour-long waits online -- while opening weekend seats for large-format screenings are being listed on eBay for as much as $1,500.

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In the mid‑20th century, when humanity discovered it had the ability to wipe itself out, Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer imagined a symbolic clock measuring how close we were to disaster. But the threat was never limited to the nuclear realm. A recently published paper shows as much. Resource depletion, institutional fragility, and potential technological crises have all served as key variables for a group of researchers trying to determine how long a civilization can remain active before collapsing. In that effort, the authors sketched out 10 possible futures a thousand years from now.

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