The death of superhero movies is coming, promises Steven Spielberg1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSteven Spielberg is maintaining that comic book superhero movies will run their course, likening them to the fad for Westerns.
Asked if he stood by his previous comments that too many blockbusters were being made, he told AP: “I still feel that way. We were around when the Western died and there will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the Western.
“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.”
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