We learned yesterday that tickets for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will go on sale this Wednesday, and we're anticipating Marvel Studios pulling out all the stops over the next few weeks to build hype for the sequel. In the meantime, an official runtime has been revealed by Fandango, and Sam Raimi's movie looks set to be a little shorter than we initially expected.
While there had been rumours of a runtime that clocked in at around 150 minutes, we've now learned that the Doctor Strange follow-up is actually going to be 2 hours and 6 minutes.
That means the epic Multiversal blockbuster matches Iron Man, and sits right between Iron Man 2 (2 hours and 4 minutes) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2 hours, 9 minutes). This might disappoint some fans who wanted a more substantial run-time for all those rumoured cameos, but it's only these past few years we've seen Marvel Studios head down that 2 hours and 30 minutes route.
Eternals came under fire for being overlong, so it's possible the studio has taken note of the complaints.
In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the Marvel Cinematic Universe unlocks the Multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before. We'll journey into the unknown with Doctor Strange, who, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is set to be released on May 6.
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