The Russo's have been a real godsend for Marvel, they've found a unique voice in making their MCU movies, same with James Gunn, so much so that they were tasked with making the final "Avengers" films: "Infinity War," and "Infinity Gauntlet."
Collider spoke with "Captain American: The Winter Soldier," Captain America: Civil War" and the upcoming "Avengers: Infinity War" co-director Joe Russo at San Diego Comic Con, and he revealed the latter might just be the longest Marvel movie ever.
“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.”
The Russo's “Captain America: Civil War” is currently the longest Marvel movie at 147 minutes, but Ruso says there's a lot more to pack in "Infinity War."
“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,” he explained. “There’s no way you could do that with all these characters in under that running length.”
“Avengers: Infinity War” will open on May 4, 2018