Avengers: Doomsday is shaping up to be another massive Marvel Studios event, but fans apparently won’t need to prepare for another three-hour Endgame-sized marathon.
Co-director Anthony Russo has revealed that Avengers: Doomsday currently runs approximately two and a half hours.
Speaking with Fandango about the challenge of bringing together the film’s enormous collection of characters, Russo described Doomsday as a focused and propulsive story despite its scale.
“It’s a two-and-a-half-hour movie or so,”
Russo said while explaining how the filmmakers structured the story around a central narrative.
The “or so” is important, as Marvel Studios has not officially announced a final locked theatrical runtime. Earlier reports had placed Doomsday at around two hours and 45 minutes, but Russo’s latest comments suggest audiences could ultimately be looking at something closer to 150 minutes.
Avengers: Infinity Wars [marvel studios]
If that holds, Doomsday would be remarkably close in length to Avengers: Infinity War.
The original The Avengers clocked in at 2 hours and 23 minutes in 2012, while Avengers: Age of Ultron was slightly shorter at 2 hours and 21 minutes.
The Russo brothers significantly increased the scale with Avengers: Infinity War, which ran 2 hours and 29 minutes. Avengers: Endgame then became the longest Avengers movie by a wide margin with a runtime of 3 hours and 1 minute.
That gives the franchise the following runtime progression:
The Avengers — 2 hours, 23 minutes
Avengers: Age of Ultron — 2 hours, 21 minutes
Avengers: Infinity War — 2 hours, 29 minutes
Avengers: Endgame — 3 hours, 1 minute
Avengers: Doomsday — approximately 2 hours, 30 minutes
Avengers: Age of Ultron [marvel studios]
The comparison with Infinity War may be the most interesting. Doomsday is expected to juggle another enormous ensemble while bringing together characters from across different corners of the Marvel universe, yet its current runtime is only about one minute longer than Infinity War.
Joe and Anthony Russo previously demonstrated with Infinity War that a huge collection of characters can be managed within a fast-moving story without requiring a three-hour runtime.
Whether Doomsday ultimately lands exactly at 150 minutes remains to be seen, but Anthony Russo’s comments provide the clearest indication yet of what audiences should expect when Marvel’s next Avengers event arrives in theaters.
Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters December 18, 2026.
