Batman's runtime has been revealed, and you'll want to grab plenty of snacks and plan bathroom breaks, because it's going to be a long movie.
According to The Hollywood Reporter (THR), The Batman will arrive in two hours and 55 minutes. For context, that's just six minutes shorter than the longest MCU movie, aka Avengers: Endgame. It's also 11 minutes longer than the previous record holder for a Batman movie, namely Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, which was two hours and 44 minutes long.
According to THR, the upcoming DCEU movie's nearly three-hour runtime includes eight minutes of end credits, so it will technically run for two hours and 47 minutes. Even so, it remains the longest-running Batman movie of all time.
Since the latest Caped Crusader movie reboot will lean heavily on the detective side of the character, we're expecting a slower plot than the frenetic, action-packed Batman movies of recent years. Add in the number of supporting characters in The Batman as well, and the movie will need more minutes to give everyone their fair share.
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With The Batman's March 4 release date fast approaching, the film's marketing campaign kicked off in recent weeks. A new poster was recently released, which you can see in the tweet above, and we think its catchphrase may suggest that the tables will be heavily turned on Robert Pattinson's Dark Knight in the movie.
In the meantime, we've also received confirmation of The Batman's age rating and, perhaps disappointing to some, it won't be rated R. And, in case you missed it, a new trailer was released over the holiday season. 2021, with new images included. that made us even more excited about its arrival in just over a month.
The Batman theme song is music to our ears.
Batman's execution wasn't the only major reveal to surface online yesterday (January 20).
The Batman theme, written by award-winning American composer Michael Giacchino (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Up, Lost), has also been released in its entirety, and that's a beautiful thing.
If you'd like to listen to the nearly seven-minute Batman 2022 theme song, you can listen to it in full now on YouTube, Spotify, and other streaming music services. Our advice? Put on your best headphones, sit back and listen to a song that's sure to be up for a host of awards on the 2023 awards circuit.
Fans on Reddit are already comparing Giacchino's orchestral score to the classic opening number from Batman: The Animated Series, and you can see why. With its wonderful arrangement of brass, percussion, wind, and string instruments, as well as its crescendos and lullabies, the Batman theme certainly sounds like it was inspired by other animated and live-action Batman productions.
Although, as other Reddit users also point out, John Williams' Superman score, Sherlock's TV show with Benedict Cumberbatch, and even Clint Eastwood's Western back catalog also seem to have influenced the track. If all of that doesn't make you want to listen to The Batman theme song right away, we don't know what will.
The Batman hits theaters exclusively on March 4.