Avengers: Endgame is less of a movie and more of a pop culture event. The final instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase Three arrives in cinemas next month. Fans are already hunting for every morsel of information, from ticket presales to runtime.
Finally, The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron at two hours and 23 minutes two hours and 21 minutes, respectively.
The superhero genre is already full of movies with exceptionally long runtimes.
But outside the genre, other movies have clocked in at over three hours.
Notably, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King had a runtime of three hours and 20 minutes.
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Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, was three hours long, while the classic Gone With the Wind clocked in at nearly four hours.
Speaking to Collider about the runtime, Joe Russo, one of the co-directors, said: “We’re still at the three-hour mark.
“I think the studio is down with what the best story is.
“Right now, we think the movie is playing well and we’ve had great responses from our test audiences and we’re feeling very good about where it is.
“We’re still doing work to it. We’re not done with it.”
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Marvel boss Kevin Feige also discussed the runtime with Collider.
Feige said: “It’s going to be the exact running time that the movie needs to be.
“I think there’s a lot of story in that movie and a lot of characters in that movie.
“In all seriousness, we don’t look at runtimes in terms of mandates, or anything like that.
“Some movies can be 90 minutes and feel like they’re four hours.
“And some movies can be three and a half hours and feel like 90 minutes.”
Avengers: Endgame is out in cinemas on Thursday, April 25, 2019.