For the past decade, films are gradually getting longer. With the recent success of Marvel Studios and the greater superhero movie universe, the longer the film, the better.
The last few Marvel films teased the 3-hr mark, with Avengers: Infinity War clocking in at 2 hours and 40 minutes! Recent reports state that Endgame’s roughcut comes in at 4 hours. Which the directors both say that will get shorter.
Now it appears that the film is 3 hours long, and test audiences don’t have a problem with the length.
In a recent interview with Collider, director Joe Russo revealed Avengers: Endgame‘s current runtime is 3 hours long and its “testing great” with audiences:
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. Again, this is a culmination film of 22 movies, it’s a lot of storytelling to work into it. 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. This one, in particular, feels like three hours worth of real estate.
