While the past few years have seen something of a decline of interest in superhero movies and shows, DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran disagrees it has anything to do with the genre itself.
"I never felt that there was superhero fatigue. I felt it was mediocre movie fatigue," Safran told The Associated Press. "You gotta try something new. You have to change the game a little bit. The essential story on which Supergirl is based is something cool and original and we haven't seen before."
While some superhero movies like Deadpool and Wolverine have proved to be huge hits, since Marvel put a bow on 10 years of the MCU with Avengers: Endgame, it has seemed like the genre was on the wane.
Still, both Marvel and DC are clearly hoping to change that, with DCU Chapter One: Gods and Monsters continuing on screen this year with Supergirl and Lanterns, and Marvel returning with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Avengers: Doomsday, and Punisher: One Last Kill.
Safran's co-CEO James Gunn has shared a similar sentiment before. "I think there is such a thing as superhero fatigue," Gunn told Rolling Stone. "I think it doesn't have anything to do with superheroes. It has to do with the kind of stories that get to be told, and if you lose your eye on the ball, which is character. We love Superman. We love Batman. We love Iron Man. Because they're these incredible characters that we have in our hearts. And if it becomes just a bunch of nonsense onscreen, it gets really boring.
"But I get fatigued by most spectacle films, by the grind of not having an emotionally grounded story," he continued. "It doesn't have anything to do with whether they're superhero movies or not. If you don't have a story at the base of it, just watching things bash each other, no matter how clever those bashing moments are, no matter how clever the designs and the VFX are, it just gets fatiguing, and I think that's very, very real."
Supergirl arrives in theaters this June 26. In the meantime, check out our guide to all the upcoming DC movies and shows for everything else that's on the way.
