Spielberg Predicts the End

We’re all wondering if Hollywood can make yet another massive superhero movie—a feat it keeps proving possible. But legendary film director Steven Spielberg says the end is near. “We were around when the Western died, and there will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the Western,” he said. “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.”