The next Batman movie will set a new record for films based on the Dark Knight released in the 2020s. Among all features centered around the DC icon released in the span of six years, it will be the shortest so far.
Knightfall Part 1 will have the shortest runtime for a Batman movie in 2020s
The next Batman movie, Knightfall Part 1, will reportedly have the shortest runtime for a Batman film released in the 2020s. The official listing at the Annecy Festival confirms it will run for 1 hour, 18 minutes and 31 seconds.
The runtimes for previous Batman movies released in the 2020s are:
- Batman: Soul of the Dragon (2021) – 1 hour 23 minutes
- Batman: The Long Halloween:
- Part One (2021) – 1 hour 25 minutes
- Part Two (2021) – 1 hour 27 minutes
- Deluxe Edition (2022) – 2 hours 48 minutes
- The Batman (2022) – 2 hours 56 minutes
- Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (2022) – 1 hour 19 minutes
- Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023) – 1 hour 26 minutes
- Merry Little Batman (2023) – 1 hour 36 minutes
- Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League – 1 hour 29 minutes
- Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires – roughly 1 hour 26-29 minutes
The first trailer premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, while IGN debuted it online. Clocking in at 1 minute and five seconds, the footage offers a brief preview of the storyline.
Knightfall, which opens a trilogy, adapts the popular 1993-94 comic created by the writing team of Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, Alan Grant, Dennis O’Neil, Peter David, Jo Duffy, Jim Aparo, Graham Nolan, Norm Breyfogle, and Jim Balent.
Knightfall Part 1’s synopsis reads, “When the mysterious behemoth known only as Bane frees Batman’s entire Rogue’s Gallery from Arkham Asylum, the Caped Crusader is pushed to his mental and physical breaking point.”
The confirmed voice cast includes Anson Mount as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Michael Mando as Bane, and Pablo Schreiber as Jean Paul-Valley/Azrael. Jeff Wamester directed from Jeremy Adams’ script. Meanwhile, the production team includes supervising producer Rick Morales, Jim Krieg, Kimberly S. Moreau, and executive producers, Sam Register and Michael Uslan.
Originally reported by Abdul Azim Naushad on SuperHeroHype.
