Can the television showrunner model work in film?

007, Star Wars, Marvel, DC and Spider-Man all seem to work on a movie franchise-runner model.

But is that the way forward for film?

Traditionally, we all accept that film is a directors medium and television a writers medium.

In both spheres, there are producers.

Spielberg and Sorkin are both examples of hyphenates within their main medium as a director-producer and writer-producer respectively.

Of these precedents, the most obvious is the James Bond series.

In short, Bond belongs firmly to the Broccoli dynasty.

The phenomenal popularity of the books and the astonishing fidelity of the film adaptations carried audiences through eight films.

This is the guy who madeScott Pilgrim Vs. Simon Kinberg also has a similar role for the studio.

Does any of this mean that well see fewer original or distinctive movies?

But the continuity between films is still what sets certain loose franchises apart as special.