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Definitely true on the artistic side, and maybe we'll see something on the commercial side too.
Thinking back to the 1980s, we had a lot of patriotic movies like Rambo: First Blood, Rocky IV, Top Gun, the Delta Force movies, Red Dawn etc but we also had lots of movies set in dystopia - Robocop, The Running Man, Blade runner, Brazil, the Mad Mad movies, Escape from New York, The Thing, The Terminator. I don't think these were quite as successful as the first set, but they were successful enough and better remembered today.
So maybe we won't see big budget movies that deal directly with events happening today, but we might see movies that are about the themes of our time.
(Though thinking about it a little more - we do get movies about those themes. For example, Winter Soldier, Spectre, Jason Bourne all had a theme of "what if someone collects all the information about us?", though they all dealt with them in a pretty shallow way. The Dark Knight and Star Trek Into Darkness both re-cast their bad guys with an eye to modern day terrorists, The Dark Knight Rises was "what if the mob takes over?" etc)
Guardian: A complacent Hollywood ignored rightwing radicalism - now movies need to tell the truth. Nov 14, 11:34
Though there plenty of movies that covered post 9-11/Iraq war world issues. Most of them flopped. Nov 14, 12:26
True, but mostly if you focus on home runs - & maybe some of the failures merely reflected quality issues? Nov 14, 13:24
Definitely true on the artistic side, and maybe we'll see something on the commercial side too. Nov 14, 19:49
Jarhead didn't make it's money back (at least no from theaters), Goats was a comedy, Dark Side made 250k {nm} Nov 14, 17:21
G: Through the gates of hell: Trump as America's first declinist president Nov 14, 12:29
That last paragraph is particularly ominous. This worries me too... Nov 14, 13:43
