Last week we posted a story which claimed that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull would top 140 minutes. Apparently that isn’t true after all. Jeff Wells‘ source on the running time was composer John Williams who revealed in a recent YouTube video clip that the film is “seven reels long [with] each reel being 20 minutes.” However, that doesn’t seem to be the case at all. Producer Frank Marshall confirmed to Paramount publicity that the film is just a tad over two hours.
Raiders, Temple, and Last Crusade all walked the two-hour tightrope, with Crusade’s 127-minute running time being the longest. And it appears that Crystal Skull will keep within the same boundaries, which may come as a relief to most fans. The argument of how long an action movie can be will be had another day, but I’m pretty sure most people enjoy shorter rather than longer.
Discuss: Would you be up for watching a three hour Indiana Jones movie?
April 20th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
No way in hell would a 3+ hour Indiana Jones movie be fun. I love epic films, but IJ does not fit that mold.
April 20th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Three hours of Ford, maybe. Three hours of LaBouf, no thank you.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Doesn’t look like I’ll have the chance to Pete.
But we’ll just about have 3 hours of batman. that is exciting.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
JFK: Sorry to tell you this, but you won’t be getting 3 hours of Batman :/
April 20th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
That’s crap. I hope it was Nolan’s decision and not WB.
Nolan knows how to make a movie interesting. He can make
Batman 5-hours and I would still sit through it.
April 20th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I was told a 5-hour workprint of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now is still circling through the internet. This is probably old news…I’d sit through that too. That’s either craziness or dedication. I don’t know.
April 20th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I’d watch a 3 hour Indiana Jones film, the longer the film is (as long as it’s good) the better even if it’s action.
April 20th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
hell yeah!
(3 hour s.w. episode 3 would have
been better!!!)
April 20th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
They mentioned the other day that the word on Crystal Skull is that it perhaps isn’t the business. That scares me more than any running time. Sure they can make it 90 minutes or 3 hours - I’ll watch both, it’s the quality of what goes into those hours which scares me to be frank.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
@pete
werd. about 2 and a half hours.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:21 am
Titanic was 3hrs. It made $ 1.8 billion worldwide, $600 million in the US. How can any of you say that you can’t sit through a 3 hour Indy?