The Word Is Out That Killers Of The Flower Moon Is Over 3 Hours Long And There Is Now Big Time Pressure On This Movie Not To Suck

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Hollywood Reporter -Get ready for quite a ride.

The official running time of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is three hours and 26 minutes, insiders confirm. From Apple Original Films, the Western crime drama, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, is one of the longest Hollywood movies in modern times, according to data from Comscore.

Scorsese’s last film The Irishman was actually three minutes longer (three hours and 29 minutes), but the 2019 Netflix movie didn’t get a full-blown theatrical release since it was primarily made for the streaming service.

Killers of the Flower Moon is a different proposition. Apple is partnering with Paramount in order to give Scorsese’s high-profile film a traditional run in cinemas across the globe before making it available at a yet-to-be-announced date on Apple TV+. (Hollywood has been buzzing about Killer‘s length after reports that it ran closer to four hours.)

For any distributor, a long movie means fewer showtimes.

Yet three of the four top-grossing movies of all time at the worldwide box office have a running time of three hours or more. No 1 is Avatar (two hours and 41 minutes), followed by Avengers: Endgame (three hours and two minutes); Avatar: The Way of Water (three hours and 12 minutes); and Titanic (three hours and 14 minutes), according to Comscore.

"Hey Rico! You Asshole! Why didn't you include the trailer in the blog? Well … that's because there is no trailer. There's fake trailers … which is a really dumb thing to do so thanks Youtube user Hassan Fitt for wasting everyone's time. 

Anyway, this film (people in the industry hate when non movie people like me call it a film so I always do) is garnering a lot of buzz. The cast is loaded. Deniro, Dicaprio, Brendan Fraser, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons. LOADED. It's based off a super popular book, it's got Scorcese directing. It's what people dream of. In fact, this movie is so hyped up it's been blogged about on here as far back as 2018. Massive film, massive buzz. 

Now the news comes out it runs over 3 hours. Can you feel that? It's the pressure building. Let me tell you something, I was excited to see this just on stars and directors alone and I never read the book (insert your own joke about that here), the amount of people who actually know the story is huge. People have this circled for a release, and there's likely going to be immediate Oscar buzz as soon as it opens. 

You have a movie that HAS TO open to a massive number, with massive stars and a massive director you already have pressure. Now you add in the fact that casual fans like me are subjected to sitting in the theater for 3+ hours? My message to the studio … You got no wiggle room now folks. This thing better be good you wanna put me in a room (even if the air conditioning is amazing) for 3 plus hours for ANYTHING. Now you wanna do a period piece film that has no trailer a month before it debuts in Cannes , and less than 6 months from it's theatre release and make it 3+ hours? Good luck.

Like I said, I think this thing will be awesome, but the studio should understand it has to now that they've set the bar this high with the cast, and the run time, but if I had to guess I would say Scorcese, Deniro and Dicaprio wouldn't want it any other way. 

"No pressure … no diamonds " - Thomas Carlyle