Damon Lindelof: Make ‘Less Marvel Movies’ So ‘Each One Can Be a Bit More Special’
variety.comZack Sharf Damon Lindelof watches every Marvel movie, but he’s starting to think there’s simply too many of them. The “Lost” and “Watchmen” showrunner joined Vulture’s “Into It” podcast to discuss his preference for endings, which he said is the opposite mentality of the never-ending Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Lindelof shared his belief that the sheer number of Marvel movies actually works against the brand because it ends up making each entry feel less special.“It’s always going to be hard because once you’ve got someone’s attention, you want to keep it.
And so the idea of letting it go and not knowing if you’re ever going to get it back again is sort of like it’s antithetical to the way that we’re wired,” Lindelof said about ending film series and TV shows. “From a slightly sort of more cynical standpoint, this is a business,” he continued. “It’s an industry.
And if you make a couple of great Marvel movies, the instinct is, ‘We need to make more Marvel movies, and we need to expand this.’ And I have this sort of interior feeling of like, ‘Wow, I wish they made less because it would make each one that came out a little bit more special.
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