Director and visionary Steven Spielberg has spoken previously about the upcoming implosion of comic book movies, and has re-stated his claim that the films will die out and go “the way of the Western”.
“We were around when the Western died and there will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the Western,” he told the Assosiated Press. “It doesn’t mean there won’t be another occasion where the Western comes back and the superhero movie someday returns. Of course, right now the superhero movie is alive and thriving. I’m only saying that these cycles have a finite time in popular culture. There will come a day when the mythological stories are supplanted by some other genre that possibly some young filmmaker is just thinking about discovering for all of us.”
What do you make of Spielberg’s comments – do you think the superhero movie will die out soon enough?
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Originally published September 3, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
