Nia DaCosta makes her mark on Marvel history with ‘The Marvels’: Fall Movie

Nia DaCosta, director of the upcoming “The Marvels,” has a diagnosis for the recent struggles of superhero movies. It basically comes down to, she says, “Mo’ money, mo’ problems.”
Success inevitably breeds bigger budgets. Box-office expectations get inflated. Even superhero spandex can’t sustain endless cycles of wash, rinse and repeat. “Growth has to stop at some point,” says DaCosta. “
As you make more and more films, you want those films to be more interesting, more dynamic and to appeal to different audiences. But that requires risk. And there’s a conundrum where you’re so big that you can’t take risks. I think that’s what the audience is feeling.
When “The Marvels” opens in theaters Nov. 10, it will be debuting in uncommonly uncertain times for superhero films. There’s talk of over-saturation.
DC and Warner Bros. are in makeover mode.
Box office-dominance this year has been ceded to <Barbie andMario.