AVENGERS: ENDGAME - Here's An Update On That Rumored Runtime Along With A New IMAX Featurette

AVENGERS: ENDGAME - Here's An Update On That Rumored Runtime Along With A New IMAX Featurette

A reliable source has shed some light on what Disney and Marvel Studios has planned for Avengers: Endgame's mammoth runtime, while we also have a very interesting new IMAX featurette. Check it out...

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By JoshWilding - Mar 28, 2019 02:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Avengers: Endgame
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Over the past week or so, Avengers: Endgame has started being advertised by theater chains as having a three hour, two minute runtime and while that's still not been officially confirmed, we now have more evidence which points to that being the case. 

Now, The Hollywood Reporter reveals that while 3:02 may not end up being the exact runtime, sources close to Disney have revealed that it's extremely close to what Marvel Studios has planned for the movie. As a result, it being a three-hour epic is looking like a dead cert at this stage. 

Interestingly, it's said that the runtime means Disney will have to forfeit one showing a day on any given screen but the studio will make up for that by having Avengers: Endgame play in as many auditoriums as possible within one complex. 

Three hour movies have a history of being commercially successful so there's no need to worry.

Avengers: Endgame is also expected to make an impact on IMAX screens and a new featurette has been released which delves into why directors Joe and Anthony Russo chose to shoot the movie with their cameras. Needless to say, it promises to be a must-watch on the giant sized screens.

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JohnnyTBP
JohnnyTBP - 3/28/2019, 2:48 AM
Church has prepared me for this. I’m ready
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 3/28/2019, 5:32 AM
@JohnnyTBP -

TheDudeMan
TheDudeMan - 3/28/2019, 2:49 AM
Dude why can't I comment?!
TheDudeMan
TheDudeMan - 3/28/2019, 2:49 AM
@TheDudeMan - well that one worked
Edministrator
Edministrator - 3/28/2019, 2:50 AM
@TheDudeMan - This website is slow as shit. Even with good connections some comments wont load properly
TheDudeMan
TheDudeMan - 3/28/2019, 2:52 AM
@Edministrator - I logged out/back in and took off the last paragraph and it finally posted 💁‍♂️
Edministrator
Edministrator - 3/28/2019, 2:49 AM
New Godzilla trailer @JoshWilding
TheDudeMan
TheDudeMan - 3/28/2019, 2:50 AM
Some of my theories/questions about Endgame. Please add to/discuss what you guys think.

-If they travel back to the Chitauri invasion, will they not warn their previous selves of the Hydra infiltration, Ragnarok, or Ultron? Negating Ragnarok, Civil War and Vision?

-If they use the Quantum Realm to go back in time and need the white and red suits to do so, why aren't Tony and Scott wearing them in the set photos during the Avengers 1 time? Also, why is the Cap in the Avengers 1 suit wearing the time piece?

-I have a feeling that the Avengers may end up going back in time and to Xandar before Thanos got the first stone to try to stop him. It was the only stone that he gained off screen. This would likely falter his quest for the other stones, especially if the Avengers 1 time hop is to take control of the Tesseract.
(The nerd in me wants them to show up and aid Nova, even if failing to defend Xandar, allowing him to survive the assault and join the fold)

-I wonder if Bruce will repair Vision. In Ultron, Tony says that no one knows bio-mechanics (I believe that's the term he used) better than Bruce. Maybe we just haven't been shown him yet but Bruce has fixed him into his white look.

-What happened to the Outriders that survived the Snap and were left on Earth?

-How the hell does Scott escape the Quantum Realm? Luis?

As far as I can tell for a time line of events from what we've been shown it appears to be:

-Hawkeye losing his family
-Avengers attempt some sort of attack (when Nat tells Cap "This is going to work", she still has short hair)
-Antman figuring out what's going on and going to the Avengers
-Time jump to Cap in survivor meeting
-Someone attacks Avengers HQ (Rhodey and Scott masking up/ Scott jumping the pencil. I think that scene was stuck between the Cap and Nebula scenes as misdirection)
-Captain Marvel arrives
-Natasha goes for Clint
-Cap Marvel, Rocket and Pepper go to get Tony and Nebula (supposedly some Disney execs described the "Rescue" crew in a ship together)
-Thor leaves to find the remaining Asgardians. Every Avengers movie, he has had a personal solo quest in a way (Loki in A1, investigating Ragnarok in Ultron, Stormbreaker-Infinity War) and I think him searching for the Asgardians will be the Thor quest for this one.
-Tony, Nebula, CM, Rocket and Pepper return (Cap, Rhodey, Widow walking outside of Avengers HQ)
-Quantum Suit Avengers travel to the past while leaving CM to defend HQ along with Bruce while he works on Vision.
-Quantum Avengers return to HQ with Vision repaired and the Asgardians show up
-They then either launch the final assault on Thanos or figure out how to restore the others lost in the Snap and then do it.
(New War Machine suit and Rocket team-up seems to be from this time in the movie)
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/28/2019, 4:59 AM
@TheDudeMan -
"If they travel back to the Chitauri invasion, will they not warn their previous selves of the Hydra infiltration, Ragnarok, or Ultron? Negating Ragnarok, Civil War and Vision?"

Hence why they wont warn themselves of those events, despite how much they want to.

If they use the Quantum Realm to go back in time and need the white and red suits to do so, why aren't Tony and Scott wearing them in the set photos during the Avengers 1 time?

The Quantum Realm Suits are entirely CGI and believed to come out of the circular device.

"Also, why is the Cap in the Avengers 1 suit wearing the time piece?"

Quantum Realm Suits are believed to come out of the circular device on the hand and envelop the user - kind of an extension of the Watch becoming a glove in Civil War or the Infinity War aspect of Tony tapping his suit.

The belief at the moment is either that Old Tony recruits Avengers Captain America OR Present Day Cap disguises himself in his old outfit.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 3/28/2019, 5:04 AM
"Xandar"

A battle on Xandar is believed to have been filmed. It was originally included in drafts for Infinity War but was shifted and filmed to be a part of Endgame's Time Travel plotline to avoid seeing the same battle play out in a different way.

"I wonder if Bruce will repair Vision."

Shuri backed-up his mind, so a replacement body would be fairly easy to acquire and some concept art hinted at a ghost-like form.

"What happened to the Outriders that survived the Snap and were left on Earth?"

Avengers are believed to be hunting them down as shown in some merchandise.

"How the hell does Scott escape the Quantum Realm?"
Time Travel pocket in the Quantum Realm that dumps him a few weeks after the events of Infinity War.
CaptCoulson
CaptCoulson - 3/28/2019, 5:11 AM
@TheDudeMan - The thing about changing those particular Phase 2 and 3 events thru the Quantum Realm, presumably if they ARE doing this, there's only very specific things they want to alter.
Otherwise, basically the same reason Strange hadn't planned to share any of the details of the "1 in over 6 million" win scenarios with everyone else there on Titan -- the more he told them about, the more they'd accidentally cause it not to happen.

But speaking of fixing Vision, that was one angle I never particularly got in Infinity War. Shuri pretty clearly says that there are over 2 trillion different neural pathways in how Vision is connected to the Mind Stone, and "one single miscalculation could have devastating affects", something like that. Meaning she was literally going to have to parse them one by one. That would surely take SEVERAL DAYS, at least, and that's if she was going non-stop. Meanwhile they're all acting like giving her a couple hours by way of battle is going to help. I realize the point was for Vision to bite it anyway, but just then have the dialog be it's not THAT complicated of a process, so it can seem even remotely realistic.
CaptCoulson
CaptCoulson - 3/28/2019, 5:13 AM
@Scarilian - I MIGHT indeed be wrong on this... but I've listened to the commentary track on Infinity War twice so far, and I'm like 90% certain they said that while they tried to fit an opening Xandar battle into several of the script drafts, it never got out of that stage. Meaning none of it was ever shot.
CaptCoulson
CaptCoulson - 3/28/2019, 5:19 AM
@TheDudeMan - damn, I forgot this. You have seen the whole Captain Marvel movie, right? just cause, the placement of her in your guessed timeline can't be right. the post-credits scene already showed her having shown up very soon after the Snap, while Cap's still got some mountain man looking going on.

But if we HADN'T been given that scene already, where you've got her in yours is yeah about the latest I would've possibly expected her to show up in the story.
TheDudeMan
TheDudeMan - 3/28/2019, 10:11 AM
@Scarilian - I hadn't thought of the Quantum Suits being Nano-tech. Interesting theory on Cap too. I love how much mystery there is going into this movie.
TheDudeMan
TheDudeMan - 3/28/2019, 10:14 AM
@Scarilian - I hadn't heard that about Xander. Interesting. I was thinking maybe Ronin was hunting them. I kinda hope that's not how Antman comes back, seems a little too convenient for me but we'll see.
TheDudeMan
TheDudeMan - 3/28/2019, 10:16 AM
@CaptCoulson - I think it will be interesting to see what all they change in the past and what repercussions those changes cause. Good point about Vision/Shuri.
I did see Captain Marvel and you're right, I couldn't remember whether or not he had a beard lol.
AFriendFromWork
AFriendFromWork - 3/28/2019, 3:10 AM
Josh, I’m happy to put my disdain for your articles aside in this instance to remind everyone that we are 1 month away from this!! In a little over 4 weeks we will be sitting in a theatre watching these guys duke it out for 3 hours.

We can all reflect on our favourite scenes from Infinty war, beast mode dr strange, iron man drawing a drop of blood, captain America in Glasgow even. No think of having that feeling for 3 hours!!!

I’m not one to look both ways to cross the street, but I just started
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 3/28/2019, 3:32 AM
F*ck pee break, shit is overrated anyway. :3
MarvelousMarty
MarvelousMarty - 3/28/2019, 3:38 AM
I'm never gonna make 3 hours :(
Equivocal
Equivocal - 3/28/2019, 11:52 AM
@MarvelousMarty -




LaserKing
LaserKing - 3/28/2019, 3:50 AM
What ever it takes I will be there opening night.
CaptCoulson
CaptCoulson - 3/28/2019, 5:28 AM
The thing that I think sometimes some people forget about with run times is that includes literally everything, as in the whooooooole ends credits sequence, which for Marvel movies are always crazy long. Of course, since they always do at least on stinger thrown in there (& as I believe will still be the case here) mostly everyone will stay thru them all anyway to see it/them.

Although I really don't think the "a 3hr runtime will decrease daily showing amounts" is as big a deal as some have made it to be, think about how the daily operation of movie theaters is today anyway. The "die hard" fan doesn't see the movie as soon as it comes out on Friday, hell they've moved on from even doing the midnight Thurs/Fri screening as a first showing for a big blockbuster anymore. I've never done so, but from what I hear you can see that shit as early as like 6pm on Thursday now, and it'll be non-stop after that (I've also heard from people with this experience that theaters will simply extend their hours with more showings, if it seems like the sales will warrant it, and they sure will here).

And I've long been kind of averse to the whole IMAX format, I mean I think maybe I saw something on that once like back in a 6th grade field trip to the museum where you see some nature film or whatever, the primary thing IMAX was used for before like a decade ago. But I am starting to seriously consider indulging for this. I'll just have to travel further away for it than I ever have for a movie, like probably 40-60 minutes (that'll be including the traffic)
gulducati
gulducati - 3/28/2019, 7:42 AM
Yet it's still standard on the Blu ray. So all that extra visual information will be inaccessible forever after the theatrical IMAX release.
comicsjunky
comicsjunky - 3/28/2019, 8:01 AM
So its HD 16-9?
ImmovableForce
ImmovableForce - 3/28/2019, 12:51 PM
Considering what movie this is, I'd be disappointed if it were much under 3 hours.
benjithegreat
benjithegreat - 3/28/2019, 12:59 PM
People are making it into a bigger deal than it is. In this day of sound-clips and buzzwords, that's all people hear - THREE HOURS! (gasp!) and it SOUNDS long, but in actuality, it's only about 20 min longer than most movies - it's not like it's hours longer or anything. All this talk of intermissions, etc, is excessive. It'll be a little longer - but worth it. Personally, I say bring it on - the more, the better. I can't wait!
benjithegreat
benjithegreat - 3/28/2019, 1:01 PM
For all the pee-dudes, I guess there's the idea of bringing in a Gatorade bottle and a nice, convenient "lap blanket" or jacket! ;)
benjithegreat
benjithegreat - 3/28/2019, 1:02 PM
@benjithegreat - haha hopefully there are not a lot of overly quiet parts toward the end of the movie! haha

"DUDE, ARE YOU PEEING?!!!"
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