Joe Russo says that Infinity War will be the longest MCU movie

“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.”

"We have to, I mean it’s a culmination event. We’ve gotta take 10 years of storytelling in this Marvel narrative experiment that’s been going on since Iron Man, and we have to take all these disparate tones, disparate themes, motivations, and we have to pull them together in a unified narrative and write the final chapters of the book. There’s no way you could do that with all these characters in under that running length."

I hope it will be 3 hours long.

Heck make it a whole day long.

Good. What's the current longest one?

Civil War at 2 hours and 27 minutes.

For what they have to accomplish in this movie, I would expect nothing less.

That's good news, considering the sheer scale of it.

And the Infinity War sequel is supposed to be about the same length as well. Man I really hope Infinity War can at least keep some of the hype around it, it's got so much riding on it.

Makes sense given the amounts of characters involved

Is it still two parts?

I expected it to be 2 hrs 40 min from the beginning. I hope it doesn't go much longer than that.

@nickzambuto: Yeah. I think this is just referring to the first film

Excellent.

IDK from what I understand each movie is going to be a complete finished story and they are largely trying to avoid pulling the ole cliffhanger bit. Thanos will be coming back in Avengers 4 clearly in my opinion because Brolin wouldn't even reveal as to whether Thanos even gets all the stones in this first movie...

In before somebody says this is a bad thing.

I'd watch a four hour long Infinity War.

Anything over 155 mins and I'm happy.

It's a butt load of characters. Honestly I'm not super obsessed with runtimes. Tell the story that you're trying to tell, then go back in the editing room and cut the fat. If you need some connective tissue or info drops in between scenes go back and shoot some extra meat and tack it in there. IDK it seems like it's not rocket science to me. Don't try to add in stuff just for the hell of adding stuff in because you think that will add weight and depth and impressive the audience and don't outstay your welcome.

I don't care how long it is. I just want the movie to be amazing.

This is gonna be The Godfather of comic book movies. You guys read it here first.