It has been two years since the American director, producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg predicted an "implosion" for the movie industry. According to Spielberg the excessive dependence on big budget summer blockbusters could very well have an irreversible impact on the industry once one of these do not make it to the box office as expected.
"Three or four or maybe even a half-dozen mega-budget movies are going to go crashing into the ground, and that's going to change the paradigm," Spielberg said.
While the director was promoting his upcoming Cold War-era thriller - "Bridge of Spies,' Steven Spielberg stated, "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."
Nonetheless, Steven Spielberg expressed his concern for the future of the film industry, and the recent Hollywood business model with the huge adoration for comic-book movies.
Steven Spielberg said, "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."
Spielberg confessed that he can't remember the last time he watched a Western movie, but added that it might the "Unforgiven" in 1992. He pointed out, that the same might happen to Batman and X-Men in the future - when people fail to remember the superhero genre.
The recent movie of Spielberg and Hanks "Bridge of Spies,' allowed the two to work with each other again, for the first time after The Terminal.
The Bridge of Spies film is slated to hit theaters on October 16.
The director is currently in post-production of an adaptation of the children's book of Roald Dahl - The BFG.
