What Happens After the Super-Hero Movie Bubble? 339
mattnyc99 writes "In the wake of a not-that-exciting Comic-Con come some (perhaps premature) reports on the so-called "Death of Superheroes" — what one financial group calls "the top of the (comic book) character remonetization cycle." In response, Esquire.com's Paul Schrodt has an interesting look down Hollywood geek road. From the article: "What happens after The Avengers, or Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman movie — after we've seen all there is to see of the best comic-book blockbusters ever made?""
Reboot (Score:5, Insightful)
duh, hollywood finds something else (Score:5, Insightful)
we've had disaster movies, monster movies, historical, fantasy, sci-fi and others.hollywood will find another genre and milk it.
plenty of books out there that haven't been made into movies or in need of a modern CGI refresh. Bible movies anyone?
Oh noes! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Reboot (Score:5, Insightful)
It's been working for the comic books themselves for the past 70 years, so I guess the movies are sort of being faithful in this respect.
Re:Reboot (Score:5, Insightful)
Exactly. Super heroes stories are the modern mythology; they never die they just keep being told and retold just like people have been doing for thousands of years before. And, despite all the haters hating the lack of "originality", I personally think that's pretty cool.
Sure the popularity will fade a bit and the more B+/A- movies (e.g. Green Hornet) will probably segue into B+/A- spy thrillers or whatever the next genre of the decade is (sci-fi please? hahaha), but I do expect that super hero movies are here to stay.
Sequel Bubble (Score:4, Insightful)