The Russo brothers are still thinking the movie will be quite the long one (Picture: Joanne Davidson/REX/Shutterstock)

Earlier this year, before the trailer for Avengers: Endgame was released, the directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, teased a bum-numbing three-hour movie.

They said they were working towards shaving some time off that, for the sake of our seats perhaps, however apparently it looks like they’re having a little difficulty in doing that.

In an interview with Empire Magazine recently, the two spoke about how they’re going in the editing suite as we count down to the April release of the follow-up to Infinity War.

According to the lads, we’re still staring down the barrel of three hours in the movie theatre in a few months.




They said: ‘There’s a high probability that this movie will clock in at around three hours. It’s a big movie with a lot of story.’

Three hours of beating Thanos? We can get on board that. Just (Picture: Marvel Studios 2018)

You don’t say?

To be honest, are we that mad about it? Sure it’s going to take some refills of our theatre sweets, but we would have been hanging out for this movie for long enough we’ll be keen to gobble up everything we can from this story, the last in the third phase of the current MCU block.

However, don’t think with three hours of footage they’re about to give us a bit of a teaser as to what we can expect in any of the scenes though – no matter how small.

‘We’ve sat on the title, we’ve sat on the trailer,’ Joe said. ‘The last thing we want to do is give any clues to story structure or tone.’

Joe previously told keen punters on Instagram all he could about the upcoming instalment back in early November. Which, obviously, wasn’t much. But we continued to hang on every darn word.

He said: ‘The running time on Avengers 4 is currently sitting right at three hours. We’ll see if that holds.’

However, Russo added at the time that they still had a long way to go on finishing up the movie.

He told fans: ‘We’re about halfway through the editing process. We’re really just scratching the surface on our VFX shots. There are more than 3,000 VFX shots in the movie; those require a lot of time and thought and energy and effort, and we’re very early in the phase of getting VFX done.

‘We’ve just started work with Alan Silvestri on the score, and we’re still editing picture at this point.’

Avengers: Endgame is in cinemas 26 April, 2019.

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