I feel quality storytelling has tailed off in Hollywood. The aim is to produces movies with the broadest appeal, ideally in other markets beyond the US. While

I feel quality storytelling has tailed off in Hollywood. The aim is to produces movies with the broadest appeal, ideally in other markets beyond the US. While that makes business sense, having to ensure a movie can translate to many languages and cultures has the effect of overly simplifying dialog and focusing on visuals and action sequences. Making a clever, deep, challenging and insightful movie with originality that can also be slotted into many target markets is a reach too far and so we end up digging around well known franchises and opting for the same old predictable stories. The big screen is too big now. The future of engaging storytelling is increasingly going to need to come from other places.