Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is now right around the corner. The movie will be the final superhero blockbuster released in 2022 (thanks to another round of release date delays affecting Warner Bros.' DCEU), and all signs point to it wrapping up what has proven to be a hit-and-miss year in style.
Since Eternals was released to negative reviews last November, Marvel Studios appears to have made cutting back the runtimes of its movies a priority. While there's nothing wrong with tightening these stories up a little, movies like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder actually felt too short when all was said and done.
There's a chance that Disney CEO Bob Chapek is responsible as he looks to increase the studio's profits (a shorter runtime means a movie can play on a greater number of screens in a day). Regardless, it doesn't sound like the Black Panther sequel will be cutting any corners.
According to a listing on Cineplex, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will clock in at 2 hours and 41 minutes. That makes it longer than Eternals and Spider-Man: No Way Home, and the second lengthiest Marvel Studios movie after Avengers: Endgame.
Given everything this sequel needs to tackle - from T'Challa's death to the new Black Panther and Namor the Submariner's MCU debut - this feels like a fitting runtime. Nothing is confirmed quite yet, of course, though we're hearing that tickets for the movie go on sale next Monday.
If accurate, expect an official runtime to surface shortly as theaters start figuring out timings. Hopefully, we'll have more on that front to share with you soon, but Marvel Studios is bound to begin pulling out all the stops to build excitement for the movie over the coming weeks.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever arrives in theaters on November 11!
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