A new
landing page for Marvel Studios’
Avengers: Endgame on the AMC Theatres website reveals a runtime of three hours and two minutes. If that runtime holds true, it makes
Endgame the longest-running Marvel Cinematic Universe movie and its first to run longer than two-and-a-half hours, bypassing the 149-minute
Avengers: Infinity War.
In February, as
Endgame neared completion, whispers began to circulate touting a three-hour runtime, prompting directors Anthony and Joe Russo
to remark studio Disney is “down with what the best story is.” Explained Joe Russo, “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. Again, this is a culmination film of 22 movies, it’s a lot of storytelling to work into it,” Russo said last month. “Emotion is an intrinsic part of that to us. When you have to tell a really complicated story and you want strong emotional moments with the characters, it just requires a certain amount of real estate.”
Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige previously affirmed
Endgame would not feel beholden to a constricted running time and would instead be released at the “perfect” length. “We’re gonna release the movie at the exact right running time,”
Feige said early March. “I’m telling you this, it’s gonna be perfect. It’s gonna be the exact running time that the movie needs to be.”
