Sick of movies running at north of two hours all the time? Do you long to return to the era where one-and-a-half hours was the norm and not the exception? Well, have I got some news for you? As it turns out, DC’s upcoming film, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is set to have a more manageable runtime than a lot of its contemporaries.

According to the IFCO, which classifies film releases in Ireland, the movie will run 108 minutes — or one hour and forty-eight minutes. This likely includes credits, so when all said and done, we’re talking less than one hour and forty-five minutes or so. In a film that looks to be as ridiculous and goofy as this one, it’s kind of a breath of fresh air it’ll run on the shorter side of things.

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And that’s especially great considering the off-kilter kinetic way they plan on telling this Harley Quinn-centric story.

“We work in a similar way,” star and producer Margot Robbie told Variety, talking about screenwriter Christina Hodson. “We pulled a lot of references from the comics that we love, from different movies we love — we were really gravitating toward the idea of not having such a formulaic sort of structure, “Trainspotting” being of one of our favorite films. We would look at a movie like that, and then we’d break it down scene by scene, minute by minute. And funnily enough, it follows a three-act structure to the T, like, to the page, to the minute. And so we would look at a lot of films like that, like: ‘How did they achieve this feeling of this beautiful chaos, but within it, everything feels satisfying?’ So the nonlinear aspect of the film came from those sorts of conversations.”

The end result?

“It’s nonlinear,” Robbie concluded. “It jumps around. And then it becomes linear for the third act. You go on a ride, and it’s all pretty chronological from there. It took a while to get it together, and get it approved by the studio. And then finally we got it greenlit. And we were off to the races.”

I know some nonlinear stories can get up their own rear ends, being overly-indulgent in the process, so hearing this short runtime does feel like a blessing that will keep the pace of this thing up, which is always a good thing.

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SOURCE: IFCO (via ComicBook.com), Variety