Blockbusters are like fracking, says Foster
BIG budget films are ruining the future of Hollywood, Jodie Foster has said, while comparing the output of superhero-obsessed studios to fracking.
The double Oscar-winning actress launched a stinging critique of those production houses whose priority is to lure as big an audience as possible, regardless of the quality of the film.
“Going to the movies has become like a theme park,” she told Radio
Times. “Studios making bad content in order to appeal to the masses and shareholders is like fracking – you get the best return right now but you wreck the earth. It’s ruining the viewing habits of the American population and then ultimately the rest of the world. I don’t want to make £150million movies about superheroes.”
Asked whether she would ever consider making a superhero film, she said she would consider it, but only if they had “really complex psychology”. Foster, who directed an episode of
Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s dystopian tech drama, said it was one of her favourite projects to date. “Of all the things I’ve done as a director, I’ve never had as nice a collaboration with a producer as this one,” she said.