The Batman Is Officially The Third Longest Superhero Movie Ever

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Looks like recent reports about the runtime of DC’s upcoming movie The Batman turned out to be true. The Hollywood Reporter recently confirmed that Matt Reeves’ upcoming movie will indeed be 2 hours and 55 minutes long (2 hours and 47 minutes without the credits).

This officially means that The Batman is the longest Batman movie ever and the third-longest superhero movie ever. You probably guessed which two movies are still in front of it when it comes to runtime. Yep, Avengers: Endgame with 3 hours and 1 minute, and Zack Snyder’s Justice League with 4 hours and 2 minutes.

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With the runtime known now, we are still wondering if the release date will remain the same. The date is still officially set for March 4, and the movie has no worries that it might not be finished in time. But, with the pandemic fuming again around the world, there’s a question if WB is ready to risk releasing it. Particularly because this long runtime could be troublesome for theaters and viewers.

WB announced that they won’t follow the policy of simultaneous releases in theaters and on HBOMax this year after they released all of their 2021 movies simultaneously. That also affected the box-office results in a negative way, so WB decided to try out Disney’s way — releasing the movie in theaters and releasing it on the streaming service 45 days after the premiere in theaters. WB also confirmed that The Batman will be released on HBOMax in mid-April if the movie keeps its current release date.

Directed by Matt Reeves, The Batman is following younger Bruce Wayne (Robert Pattinson) in his second year as Batman while he’s trying to fight corruption in Gotham City and other supervillains, particularly Riddler (Paul Dano). The movie is also starring Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.