While Taika Waititi is set to deliver the shortest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie so far on this November 3, the Russo Brothers will have the longest one in store for us on May 4, 2018. Avengers: Infinity War is going to have a run time greater than that of the director duo's last two - Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2 hours 16 minutes) and Captain America: Civil War (2 hours 27 minutes) - and that of Joss Whedon's The Avengers (2 hours 23 minutes) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2 hours 21 minutes).
That's what Joe Russo has revealed in a new interview. While speaking to Collider at the backstage of San Diego Comic-Con International 2017, the co-director says the following about Avengers: Infinity War run time:
The current cut is over two and a half [hours]"¦ Most of it's a movie you could show, but there's still a lot of work left to be done, I still have a couple of scenes that we haven't finished from Avengers 3 that I'm shooting in the next few months with my brother, and it's certainly gonna be a film that lives in the two and a half hour, two and a half hour-plus range.
Joe suggests that the 19th MCU installment is that lengthy because it is "a culmination event" and they have to take "10 years of storytelling in this Marvel narrative experiment that's been going on since Iron Man." They have to take all the "disparate" tones, themes and motivations and pull them together in "a unified narrative and write the final chapters of the book." He doesn't believe that it's possible to deal with so much with so many characters in a run time shorter than the 2 hours 30 minutes range.
During a separate interview with ComicBook at the event, the co-director rules out the possibility of seeing Brie Larson's Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, in Avengers: Infinity War. He says:
She’s not in Avengers 3.
Of course, there's still possibility of the female superhero showing up in the untitled fourth Avengers installment, but that movie doesn't arrive until May 3, 2019. So, it's pretty clear that we won't see Captain Marvel ahead of her first standalone movie which releases on March 8, 2019.
Check out a new fan-made poster for Avengers: Infinity War which takes its cues from the design of the recently released Justice League poster!
