I am not going to deny that, on occasion, and despite religiously watching each of the films that are served to us every few months, I dream of a world in which the people of Marvel Studios dosed their feature film grill and turn each premiere into a cinematographic event to attend with desire and enthusiasm instead of with the feeling of “signing” and fulfilling one more simple procedure.
The excess of productions of the MCU is, in a certain way, making miss the magic For many viewers, and the barrage of content announced at Comic-Con 2022 does not present a very rosy scenario; something that the writer Damon Lindeloff —responsible for the fantastic ‘Watchmen’ and the revolutionary ‘Lost’— also perceives.
Less is more
During Vulture’s ‘Into It’ podcast, Lindelof spoke about the problem of put an end to a series or a franchise of feature films that it is experiencing a popularity boom; something that, practically, plays against our human nature.
“It’s always going to be difficult, because once you’ve got someone’s attention, you want to keep it. So the idea of letting it go and not knowing if you’re going to go back to it again is antithetical to the way we’re programmed.”
This poses a scenario where the industrial and creative aspects of the cinematographic medium collidegiving rise to a conflict that is difficult to resolve.
“From a somewhat more cynical point of view, this is a business. It is an industry. And if you do a couple of big Marvel movies, the instinct is, ‘We need to do more Marvel movies, we need to expand this.’ And I kind of have this inner feeling like, ‘Wow, I wish they would do less because it would make each one that came out a little bit more special.’ But I see them all. People don’t want things to end. I do”.
From my point of view, Mr. Lindelof is right; but if something legitimizes his point of view, it is the way in which he does not limit himself to seeing the speck in another’s eye, but makes self-criticism and recognizes itself as another piece of the industrial gear.
“I’ve done prequels, sequels and reboots, so I can’t be a hypocrite and say, ‘God, give me an original idea’ while I’m doing two ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Prometheus’ movies.”