Steven Spielberg: Superhero movies will go 'the way of the Western'

Steven Spielberg, who infamously helped bring about the modern blockbuster with Jaws, doesn't think the current blockbuster-in-chief, the Superhero Movie, will be around for too long.

Speaking with the Associated Press, the director had a bit of a gloom-and-doom attitude when it comes to superhero films:
"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."
Considering that studios like Marvel and Warner Bros. have superhero movies scheduled until 2020 and potentially beyond, we may not witness the death of the superhero very soon -- although, if certain upcoming superhero movies fail as badly as Fantastic Four did, Spielberg may be right sooner than he thinks.

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