10 Ways That Movies Will Change In The 2020s

10. Any Genre As Long As It's Superhero

"Have we reached peak superhero?" was a question that started doing the rounds in hot take thinkpieces around the start of the 2010s. Clearly we hadn't. The same question kept rearing its head every couple of years since and still proved no more true.

2019 saw a superhero movie become the highest grossing film of all time and a supervillain pick up the Golden Globe for Best Actor. So it's probably fair to say that superheroes are here to stay for the time being.

That is not to say that the popularity of superhero movies peaking and then going into decline isn't a distinct possibility at some point in the 2020s. At the very least, Marvel must be aware that they will inevitably produce their first genuine flop sooner or later, especially if people begin to tire of their so far winning formula.

The response to the potential for superhero fatigue, however, is unlikely to be fewer superhero movies, but rather remembering that "superhero" isn't actually a genre.

In 2019, DC showed that the supposedly dying mid-budget movie in relatively old fashioned genres could be revived via superheroes in the form of Joker's 70s-style antihero character piece or Shazam!'s 80s-style family fantasy adventure.

Expect the 2020s to offer more directors the chance at making the genre movie of their choice as long as it's clad in spandex. Meanwhile, studios will take advantage of the flexibility of superhero comics as a source to bring us the likes of Marvel-does-horror in the finally released New Mutants or the reboot of Blade. Disney+'s WandaVision even promises to toy with the concept of superheroes in a domestic sitcom.

Going forward through the decade, then, you might see superheroes in genres from romcoms to gritty crime thrillers and maybe the odd period drama.