Captain America: Brave New World is not only the shortest Captain America film in Marvel Cinematic Universe history, but it’s one of the shortest MCU films.
AMC Theatres revealed the runtime for Brave New World is one hour and 58 minutes, making it one of the few MCU films to come in under two hours, and the seventh shortest (out of 35 films) overall. The previous three Captain America films are all over two hours long.
While most of the shorter films come in Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the MCU, a handful of outliers came more recently. The shortest MCU film is 2022’s The Marvels at one hour and 45 minutes, for example, followed by The Incredible Hulk, Thor: The Dark World, Thor, Doctor Strange, and Ant-Man.
Brave New World arrives next, alongside Ant-Man and The Wasp which is also one hour and 58 minutes long. For comparison, the longest MCU film is Avengers: Endgame at three hours and one minute, followed by Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Eternals, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
Though it’s finally just a few weeks away with a release date of February 14, Brave New World has allegedly been subject to myriad rewrites and reshoots (including of scenes surrounding WWE star Seth Rollins) though it’s unclear how this has affected the overall runtime.
Brave New World is the first Captain America film following the retirement of Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers and instead stars Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson in the titular role. He’s promised it continues the Captain America series’ legacy as another grounded, espionage adventure, however.
It’s also set to fold in some deep cut characters from Marvel lore, including the pay off for a tease included in the second ever MCU film, The Incredible Hulk, through the introduction of The Leader. It similarly stars Red Hulk.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
