New Delhi, July 16 -- Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey was always intended to be an epic, but the scale of the production is perhaps best understood through the numbers behind it: 172 minutes, 91 shooting days, six countries and a reported budget of $250 million.

Clocking in at 172 minutes, The Odyssey is one of Nolan's longest films, though it remains slightly shorter than his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer, which ran for 180 minutes.

"It's an epic film, as the subject matter demands," Nolan told The Associated Press. "But it is shorter."

Principal photography took place across Greece, Italy, Morocco, Iceland, Scotland and the United States. Although the production was initially scheduled for 100 shooting days, filming...