Roland Emmerich thinks Marvel, Star Wars movies are ruining the industry

Last Updated on February 4, 2022

While there are certainly still original movies out there, it’s hard to deny that much of the blockbuster landscape has been scooped up by Marvel movies, DC movies, and Star Wars movies. It can be hard enough for directors to secure financing for any ambitious project nowadays and Roland Emmerich told Den of Geek that the overabundance of Marvel, DC, and Star Wars movies are ruining the industry.

Roland Emmerich, king of the disaster movie, was asked if the genre he’s best known for has changed over the years.

Oh yes. Because naturally Marvel and DC Comics, and Star Wars, have pretty much taken over. It’s ruining our industry a little bit, because nobody does anything original anymore.

“You should make bold new movies, you know?” Emmerich continued. “And I think, actually, Christopher Nolan is the master of that. He is someone who can make movies about whatever he wants. I have it a little bit harder, but I still have a big enough name—especially when it’s a disaster [movie] or has some sort of disaster theme.” Roland Emmerich has previously said that he’s never been a big fan of Marvel movies and admitted to Den of Geek that part of the reason likely has to do with growing up in Germany. It took a while before superheroes gained any traction in the country, but even when they did, Emmerich just didn’t have any interest in them.

The official synopsis for Moonfall:

A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and send it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler (Halle Berry) is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson) and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman (John Bradley) believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible last-ditch mission into space, leaving behind everyone they love, only to find out that our Moon is not what we think it is.

Roland Emmerich’s next movie, Moonfall, will hit theaters on February 4th but it won’t be opening in Canada.