Chloé Zhao Was Inspired by Interstellar, The Revenant, More on Eternals.
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Why is Eternals over two-and-a-half hours? Here's what Zhao had to say to Fandango: “It could be longer! You know, it's ten characters, the Celestials, and 7,000 years. Everything else is around two hours or under. It's followed by Captain America: The Winter Soldier (136), Black Panther (134), Black Widow (134), Spider-Man: Homecoming (133), Shang-Chi, Iron Man 3 (131), Thor: Ragnarok (130), and Spider-Man: Far From Home (129). In fact, The Avengers (143) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (141) were shorter.
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The longest of the lot is Captain America: Civil War at 147 minutes, and that's because it was a mini-Avengers movie to be honest. It's quite unusual for a standalone Marvel movie to run for over 150 minutes. Avengers: Infinity War came very close, at 149 minutes. After all, only one MCU chapter runs longer than two-and-a-half hours - it's called Avengers: Endgame and it touched the three-hour mark. That would make Eternals the second longest MCU chapter. In a new interview, the 39-year-old Chinese-American filmmaker confirmed that Eternals will run at over two-and-a-half hours.
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Though we don't have an exact runtime yet, she has given us a ballpark figure.
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Eternals is set to be the second longest movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, writer-director Chloé Zhao has revealed.