Damon Lindelof Thinks Marvel Should Make Fewer Movies So "Each One Can Be a Bit More Special"

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof (The Leftover, Watchmen) is a fan of the movie that Marvel Studios pumps out, but he also thinks that maybe they should slow it down a bit. During a recent interview with Vulture’s Into It podcast he explained that if Marvel made fewer movies, each one that they did release would be “a bit more special,” but he does have an understanding of why they don’t:

“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.

“From a slightly sort of more cynical standpoint, this is a business. 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. But I watch all of them. … People don’t want things to end. I do.”

I totally get what he’s saying, and I kinda agree with him. But, at this point, it’s just not gonna happen. Marvel Studios isn’t going to slow things down anytime soon. They are speeding forward, they have a ton of stories they want to tell that lead to these big event films, and most importantly, they are making billions of dollars from them! They aren’t going to give that up. Lindelof went on to say:

“I don’t begrudge them the right to keep it going. I’ve made prequels and sequels and reboots, so I can’t be a hypocrite and say, ‘God, come up with an original idea.’ Meanwhile, I’m making two ‘Star Trek’ movies and ‘Prometheus.'”

Some of the projects upcoming our include Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Blade, Secret Invasion, Loki Season 2, Fantastic Four, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, and Avengers: Secret Wars.

What are your thoughts on what Lindelof had to say?