What is the runtime of David Fincher's Zodiac (theatrical cut)?

The theatrical cut of David Fincher’s Zodiac runs 157 minutes. That makes the film just over two and a half hours long, matching its deliberately methodical investigation of the still-unidentified Zodiac Killer.

Zodiac was released in 2007 and follows cartoonist Robert Graysmith, journalist Paul Avery, and San Francisco detectives David Toschi and William Armstrong as they pursue leads across several decades. Its long runtime allows the story to move through multiple killings, coded letters, suspects, interviews, and investigative dead ends without reducing the case to a conventional thriller plot.

An earlier version ran approximately three hours and eight minutes. Paramount wanted the film shortened, but Fincher had contractual final cut and stopped trimming once he reached the version he considered right. One removed passage was a two-minute montage of songs representing the passage of time, replaced by the title card “Four years later.” The 157-minute figure refers to the standard theatrical release, not the earlier assembly.