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Duchovny Says X-Files Sequel in Works
Wolverine Inspector writes "According to The Sun Newspaper Online's exclusive interview with David Duchovny, "he and the shows creator Chris Carter are planning on making a sequel to their 1998 movie." and "Were hoping to get together just under a year from now and make another X Files movie.". Chris Carter, the creater of 'The X Files' is working with Frank Spotnitz who wrote for the series. They say that they would like the movie to be released summer 2006."
What is that?
Oh yeah, now I remember.
Will Gillian Anderson be in it?!
If it wasn't for C, we would be stuck using BASI, PASAL and OBOL.
chris has done some great stuff.
I've said it beforem I'll be modded again but hell, it's fun!
LET THE BEATING OF THE DEAD HORSE BEGIN!!!!
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
Wouldn't it be a good idea to ask Gillian Anderson to see if she's interested first?
like harrison ford im getting frantic
Hey, Chris and David! It better have aliens in it! None of this funny bait and switch nonsense where Mulder sees them and Scully does not and then Scully sees them but does not believe what she saw. I want to believe. {GRIN}
Oh, P.S., get some more science advisors for the show. I might consider volunteering to help with, ahem.... a reality check on what alien eyes would look like or something.
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Chris Carter and David Duchovny?
Dumbed-down sci-fi? Is there some requirement of scifi that it be complicated beyond the comprehension of the everyday viewer to the point where it's considered geekish to even watch?
I actually enjoyed some of the series simply because it was "dumbed down" as you so aptly put it. It was just enough to offset it from something like CSI, but not the point of Star Trek and the like.
Regardless, we should all be so fortunate that we don't have movies based on reality shows....yet.
Guess I've got alot of X-Files to watch in the next 18 months.
Isn't it amusing that Duchovny wanted so badly to stop doing the X-Files, but after a few years without any Hollywood success he's eager to produce another movie in the series, rather than evolve as an actor? Are they all just looking for some quick money from investors for a film that may very well do as poorly as the original did?
In the end, nothing is solved.
Boo! there are much better Sci-Fi tv shows to make more of then the X-Flies.
Insert Pithy Quote here.
Question: I was excited to read that a second X-Files movie is finally being made. Do you have any more info on the plot -- other than that it will be a stand-alone horror flick? -- Jack K.
Ausiello: Actually, it looks like David Duchovny was getting a little ahead of himself when he told USA Today last week that the film was slated to begin production later this year. "There's nothing at the moment going on," Chris Carter's agent, Elliott Webb, says. "There is no negotiation, there's no script written, there's nothing other than a desire for people to get together." Bummer.
I was a crazy fan of the series(still am of the pre-movie episodes) and never missed an episode till I saw the movie. I don't know the reason why they had to make that move. It was more or less a 2 hour episode of the series. I probably would be crucified for saying this but I had lot of expectations for the first one. The sequal, I think, is not going to generate interest like the first one.
The Truth Is Out There
MULDER!
SCULLY!
Mulder?
exchange, and my life will be complete.
BTW, for those of you yearning for more Chris Carter, don't forget he did 'Millennium' as well. The second season just came out on DVD, and if you are poor, you can always watch 'Medium', and pretend that Patricia Arquette is a craggy Frank Black.
I hold no responsibility for what this may do to your 'inner pr0n'.
I hope the movie's like that episode. That would be awesome.
"Why can't everyone just be straight with me?"
"Because we live in a bendy world, dear."
can they actually create something great enough to lure back all of the fans who are still aching with the memory of how unadulteratedly AWFUL the X Files became in the last few seasons once Fox wrested control of the show away from Carter and everybody who made the show good or interesting had quit...
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Gillian Anderson is *the* Scully in my book. But some people over on fark today noticed how Gillian is looking a bit (too) lean these days. Link to article with pic.
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Regardless, we should all be so fortunate that we don't have movies based on reality shows....yet.
Not to rain on your parade, but apparently some people refer to this as a movie..
I feel dirty that I even recall it's existence.
I think that it's going to be tough to make any sort of effective movie, especially consdiering the ridiculous "super-soldier" motif we were left with, the complete lack of Mulder during the last seasons, the killing off of such key characters as Cancer man and the Lone Gunmen (easily some of the best side characters of any show, ever), and the commercial flop the last movie had. I mean, I wish Duchovny and Carter luck, and lord knows every nerd worth his salt enjoys looking at Gillian Anderson, but I just don't think this is going to work. --Sparks
I remember being a rabid X Files fan in 94-95, when I was in 6th and 7th grade. I still have my autographed picture of Gillian Anderson, and I still have pictures from GA's first appearance at an X Files convention, the one in Burbank, CA.
I'd love to see another TXF movie, so long as it is along the lines of the first few seasons, not the last few seasons. I enjoyed the more film-like production of the season after FTF, but lost interest due to DD leaving and Robert Patrick and whats her name coming on.
Let's see if they can get a winner out of the original cast!
Regardless, we should all be so fortunate that we don't have movies based on reality shows....yet.
SSSSSHHHHH!!! You're giving them ideas!
you might want to learn how to make a proper link, funny boy
http://slashdot.org/nugn.com/vb doesn't work
just to find out what really happens to the cigarette smoking man.
imho, he was one of the coolest characters i have seen on a tv show.
David Duchovney, isn't he the narrator dude from the softcore porn show "Red Shoe Diaries"?
Guess we're in for some alien softcore, stuff you just won't want to believe.
Will Gillian Anderson be naked in it?!
....xorg.conf? (Oh wait....wrong X-File. Sorry!)
If the answer is yes, if they can really write a fresh, quality story that is neither "standard formula" or a cut-and-paste of bits from series stories, then it could be good. The show had far more potential than it ever actually used. Fair enough - a lot of the time they managed to keep the stories good enough to keep a very respectable fan base going.
However, if they want to do a movie now, it has to be good. It has to be so good that it can sell on the story, not merely by the merchandise.
If it's not up to that kind of standard, then it will (at best) utterly destroy the value of the X-Files, because that's what people will remember. People remember sucky movies far more than they remember sucky episodes, and they remember both far better than the real classics.
If I were in the shoes of the director, I'd get the script editor from hell to make damn sure that the script is polished enough they could use it in a reflector telescope. I'd get the best cameramen on the planet, never mind the cost. And if it took a year to get perfect takes, I'd take the time.
I'd be a lousy director. Sure, if anything got finished, it would make LoTR look cheap. Problem is, the price tag would make the US national deficit look cheap, too. Half the cast would be dead of old-age before it hit the screen.
On the other hand, that's the kind of direction a director needs to be pointing in, if they're to make a classic, rather than a one-day wonder. A work of art isn't about who remembers it by lunchtime. It's about staying power.
The X-Files has been off the screen for so long that only something with real staying power will draw an audience. Star Trek worked because there were enough re-runs and a strong enough fan-base that a decade or two didn't matter. The X-Files simply isn't in that league. It could be, if they do the film right, but it isn't for right now.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I've heard enough stories on slashdot to think it's time I gave out one of my own.
...is..?" and gulped.
about 10 years ago (I was 9-10ish) I was watching an episode, I forget the exact plot, but it involved some guy using vents to get around or something. So any way the was a "family friend" who no one could really get rid of atthe house, she was always there.
So any way this woman was going to leave when X-files was ove r(it was quite late) so theres my mum doing something and casually goes "You do know X-files is real right?" so I go "nah it can't be" and the woman went "..it
Well needless to say after X-files finished she was tempted to try and cling to something rather then leave... if you've never seen a 30 something woman pretty much pee herself with fear in a very safe area then you haven't lived.
I also remember shortly after that she stopped returning.. I wonder why, maybe it really is true.
I like muppets.
Amen.
The alien invasion arc was interesting and all, but sort of heavy-handed when you get down to it. Some of the best episodes were the self-contained ones, IMHO, especially in the later seasons.
Frank Spotnitz is slated to co-write with Carter, though I wouldn't mind it if Darin Morgan or Vince Gilligan were the co-writers.
Je Souhaite and Fight Club, two episodes from Season 7, were on late last night on US cable TV (TNT). Not having seen these since their first run, I was impressed at the dark humor, a quality sadly lacking in broadcast television (though cable has it in spades -- Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under). Again, these were stand-alone episodes, unrelated to the Invasion story arc.
k.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Alex Winter says "Bill & Ted III" in the works.
NEWSFLASH: 'Were' is not the same as 'We're'. The two words have totally different meanings. Christ... learn English. We're geeks, not morons.
The problem is that dumbing down is not needed. It's an easy way to appeal to the masses and support poor writing when other avenues will produce the same results.
Classical music can be enjoyed by all even if all don't know the intricacies of the instruments or compositions. Britney Spears is pop crap.
What's notable is if a show is well written, it doesn't need to be dumbed down. Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, while hit and miss, did have intelligent, well written episodes that also were popular. Different people can take away different levels of interpretation, and while some of the nuances may be missed by "the common folk", they're still there for enthusiasts to enjoy.
Updated since Homeland Security took over... Otherwise known as "The Carnivore Files"
people listen
correct me if i'm wrong, but did they not wrap all of this up in the series?
Scully isn't getting any younger . . . let it all hang out and I'm certain I'll go to see it in theaters . . . . or rent it and take it back to my bedroom.
This is totally awesome, I've been an X-Files fan for years. I really respect how Darryl D'Anchovie left the series to pursue his own independent acting career in Hollywood. I absolutely loved him as "the bouncer" in 25th Hour, and he was great as "raving fan" in Elektra, or "towel boy" in "Million Dollar Baby." See? There really is life after X-Files, good on him for standing up for what's right and leaving the show at its height...
That bastion of accuracy
Correction: we don't have movies based on REAL reality shows yet. :)
The creater of this submission watches too much television...
Are you saying that Star Trek is "beyond comprehension"?
stuff
The unemployment line is out there...
...like having a field of corn in the middle of nowhere and a huge hive of bees to pollinate it, regardless of the fact that corn is wind pollinated and doesn't even need the damned bees. And that's if they managed to find a strain of corn that hadn't been hybridized to the point that it was rendered sterile, like all the other corn on the planet.
I'm fine with a little scientific license, but why would the bad guys make their lives more complicated? Just for the sake of having a few million bees with frickin' laser beams on their foreheads?
This was the greatest X Files movie ever made. There was great action, comedy, romance, alien menace. I'm glad they couldn't get Gillian Anderson to be in it, Julianne Moore was just freakin' HOT. I was a little confused at first why David was playing a teacher, but no more confused than normal episodes. They mentioned he was kicked out of a government program so I just assumed this was in some type of time-dimensional-portal-loop thingy that would be explained in the next movie.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Yeah but http://slashdot.org/nugn.com/vb does. There's just not much to the page that comes up. Who is this '404 File' guy anyway? I see him a lot.
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Duchovny WANTS TO BELIEVE there is a sequel in the works.
CSI is your idea of intelligent drama?
As a biochemist, I feel obliged to inform you that it is not. It has as many fallacies, Hollywoodisms and just plain bad science in it as anything you'll see from Vin Diesel or Tom Cruise.
It is dumbed down already, and apparently only has high school drop-outs approving the "science" involved. It is just so wrong it is unbelievable. You know how wrong Swordfish was about computers and hacking? That's how wrong CSI usually is about forensics, biochemistry, physics, the law, police enforcement and the like.
oh come on! how can't you rate that one up!?
but if I did, they'd have a samurai!
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
According to this interview with David Duchovny, it sounds like they want to do a "Monster of the Week" movie rather than something based on the mythology story arch (ie. aliens + government conspiracy). I'm glad to hear that, because despite the fact that I'm an X-Files fan I found that the mythology episodes got old in a hurry.
Let's hope they shoot it in Vancouver, because California doen't have that authentic spooky feel that the X-Files used so well in its first few seasons.
I've recently rewatched the whole damned show, and I've gotta say - I got really tired of most of the "monster of the week" episodes. After a while, all that was interesting was the stories that advanced the mythos, and they wrapped that up pretty well.
The only way I could see this being interesting (Duchovny says not, but he's not the most reliable guy on the planet) was if they set in or near 2012, the year that the Alien invasion was scheduled to begin (according to the final episode). Cover either the gearing up for the final invasion, or the resistance to it.
Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen. I don't see any reason that most people would go to see a "Twilight Zone" movie that just happened to have Mulder and Scully in it... I think everybody has been there and done that quite enough in the 9 years they were on the air.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
...and how it is just an intellectual cock tease. There's lot's of buildup and things look promising, but ultimately it never delivers. Screw that crap.
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I've recently rewatched the whole damned show, and I've gotta say - I got really tired of most of the "monster of the week" episodes. After a while, all that was interesting was the stories that advanced the mythos, and they wrapped that up pretty well.
(by teneighty (671401))
According to this interview [thesun.co.uk] with David Duchovny, it sounds like they want to do a "Monster of the Week" movie rather than something based on the mythology story arch (ie. aliens + government conspiracy). I'm glad to hear that, because despite the fact that I'm an X-Files fan I found that the mythology episodes got old in a hurry.
lol
I can't figure out if you're talking about Longhorn, Slashdot, or my mom.
Look. I am a huge X-Files fan. I have all 9 seasons on DVD (still in original shrinkwrap) and watch it religiously on TNT and Scifi (even at 3:00 A.M.). Nobody could possibly want this movie to be made more than me. However, there is nothing new in this interview. They are saying the same thing they've been saying since the end of the 9th season. The bottom line is that FOX has to give this a green light. FOX is hesitant, to say the least. Over the last two seasons, the relationship between FOX and Chris Carter started to turn south. On top of this, the X-Files has been off the air for two and a half years. It has been all but forgotten by the casual fans (who account for most of the viewership); it is still fresh in the Philes' minds, though. Even if the movie were approved, FOX thinks there is not a large enough fanbase out there to make a decent amount of money. Diehard fans like myself want and try to believe otherwise, but in the back of my mind I think they might be right.
Anyway, "they" have been talking about doing this movie for quite some time now. As far as I am aware, there is no script at this time. Nobody has officially signed on because the movie has not been officially sanctioned by FOX. They are just hoping to light a fire under FOX by talking about the sequel and trying to get people excited. I don't believe this movie will be made, but I pray it will. Even if it is made, Carter has said it will not be a mytharc movie. So we will not see anything about the invasion and colonization (I would kill for that movie to be made).
In conclusion, this movie is NOT being made until FOX says it is being made. End of story.
If you find this post offensive, don't read it! THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING! I am what I am because of how apes behave.
What am I, 9th in line or something? My first thought on seeing that pic was "IMHOTEP..."
That's not a diet my friends, that's an illness. Ok, maybe it could be a diet that became an illness but someone needs to sit down and have a talk with her and as another poster mentioned that talk might need to happen at a Krispy Kreme shop.
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This movie may actually be good, but only if they get away from the same ho-hum material that they used so frequently toward the end of the run (and in the first movie). The same vast alien conspiracy story involving the cigarette-smoking man has been beaten to death. I stopped watching the show because I couldn't deal with the fact that there was no variety.
Part of the thing that made the X-Files nice during the first few seasons was that there was always a new mystery, and a new setting. Most episodes had nothing to do with an alien conspiracy, but rather some other totally unrelated investigation. When the show got away from the ongoing conspiracy storyline and did something new, it was really great.
After all, the X-Files was created to look into unexplained phenomena. Not just little green men.
P.S. Bring back the original suspense! The first movie had no atmosphere!
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For aliens to be able to reach earth means they got so much technologically advanced that they are now capable of space travel. So why in god's name does most of the aliens movies show the aliens as Green creatures who say nothing but GGHHrrr and are naked!!
If they are so technologically advanced, one would think they should wear clothes and be able to communicate better than GGGggrrrr. But Hollywood somehow seem to miss this everytime.... Remember Signs?
Duchovny never pulled a Harrison Ford on us. He liked the series; he just wanted a chance to do something DIFFERENT after doing X-Files for years. What's the harm in that?
He's said in past interviews that he just wanted a break, and for producers to "give me a chance to miss it" before coming back to the franchise. Looks like that's exactly what they're doing. While he's stated that he got tired of doing X-Files on TV, he liked the idea of feature films, and was very happy with the first one.
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...because I think the old government conspiracy format wouldn't work today. One of the reasons that the X-Files thrived in the pre-911 era, IMHO, is that we USians had no constant enemy threat, so we started to look within for our boogeymen, and we found black helicopters over Waco. It was the perfect time for the X-Files secret government conspiracy plotlines.
I just don't think they'd work well in today's climate. 911 changed too much, and whether or not you support the Iraq war, nobody questions whether we have real terrorist enemies out there somewhere that want to kill us on a grand scale. After 911, even George Freakin' Carlin said he was willing to live with the US Government if it meant getting Osama and the gang. Unless you're an absolute government hating tin-foil type, the "alien-govt-conspiracy" plotline just wouldn't resonate with most US viewers anymore.
Of course, it'd be a smash hit on Slashdot.
I always liked the supernatural-monster episodes better anyway...the werewolf, the leech man,and Bruce Campbell's Demon episode. The Vampire episode was kind of dissapointing, though. So I'm glad that, in David's words, "It has to do with supernatural stuff".
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
So you say.
I can't quite identify the reality TV show this came from, maybe it didn't make it to Australia. Looked like a great TV show though.
meh
Allahu Akbar...
Kill all nerds.
That picture is pathetic. Poor Gillian...I'll never understand why Hollywood and New York demand that women look like heroin addicts to be beautiful. Nicole Kidman is the same way now. Getting fat is one thing, but Christ Almighty, let's have some reasonable meat on the bones, ladies. Some of these actresses and models look like Auschwitz survivors.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
The Profits Are Out There
What more can one say?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Would it be possible by some miracle that Cigarette Smoking Man somehow made a comeback? The last I saw, he was blown up by missiles from helicopters while hiding in ruins.
{sigh} I miss Doom.
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In retrospect, its those filler episodes that appeal to me now. I dont feel like Im being jerked around...
Oh and fear and distrust of the government- this show helped deligitimze the goverment. Then it seemed to morph into the whole 'Clintons killed vince foster and a whole lot more' that still maintains traction. Although I may be projecting a bit on this last point.
I dont do meaning of life questions.
c'mon, you gotta give it up for that.
That's what's going on.
She lives in London now, and has been there for a while.
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GaaaaaaaaaaaaaaYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just don't think they'd work well in today's climate. 911 changed too much, and whether or not you support the Iraq war, nobody questions whether we have real terrorist enemies out there somewhere that want to kill us on a grand scale.
;-)
To the contrary, the American public have never been more paranoid! Except this time make the aliens look like Osama and you'll have a box office blockbuster... And the smoking guy (whatever his name is in the X-Files show) can be Saddam Hussein.
The best way to end the show would have been to find out that Scully was actually Mulder's sister. She could've found out she'd been adopted or whatever, and it would have tied in perfectly with their "no kissing" rule that lasted for most of the series. It also would have fit in with their alien bloodlines things where past abductees (Samantha/Scully) are later impregnated.
In addition, I am convinced that the star of the show was actually Krycek, and Mulder was just forever on the fringes of being able to figure out what Krycek was doing. It's obvious Krycek got a whole lot more accomplished than Mulder ever did.
I'm not kidding. I remember reading some really well-written theorizations on what the second Matrix movie would be about before it was released, and the theorized plots that I read on the 'net were a MILLION times better than the Matrix 2 & 3 that followed. I really think that the Matrix guys could have benefitted tremendously from reading some of what was theorized, there were all kinds of interesting twists in what I read on the 'net (even on Slashdot if I recall correctly) that were so much better than the movies turned out to be.
They should do the same for X-Files. Just hint that there will be a sequel movie, and then scan the fan sites for the best plots offered as guessed as to what is going to happen. It would be a great way to amass alot of good ideas. I know there is alot of crap out there but some people really do write some pretty good stuff, that could at least be used as a basis for some ideas. I'm serious.
For some time there was an X-Files 2 (This time it's not X-Files 1) listed on imdb.com which included some of the details seen in this article. This was about 8 months ago. Then, when I checked in November it was no longer listed. It was listed as filming to start 2005 with a release in 2006.
Haven't people said that Saddam had ufo's... (this was just before the Iraq war)
now i know that there is a god. he has answerd my prayers of proving x-files divinity
>will gillian anderson be in it?
gillian anderson will be in the movie
oh yes, gillian anderson will be in the movie
Dean Haglund views on the government, especially after the 'pilot' episode (screened in april 2001) are interesting to say the least!
of course, screening almost the entire plot of the basics behind 911 on a "dumbed down" sci-fi programme about "conspiracy theorists" hides it exactly in the right place, plain sight!
x-files was one fantastic serial .. and it is good news that it is making a comeback !
Chris ,
Php Programmers.
"That martians with big elbows are going to take over Kent" "It's true, Scully, there's all these files. there's hundreds of files, you've got to see these files" and by the end of the episode there's martians with big elbows everywhere. Scully's beating them off with a tennis racket ... "I believe you, I believe you, Scully ... Mulder" "Do you know who you are?"'
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"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
Id just like to point out to non UK readers that the Sun, is not a newspaper. Its more C list celebrity gossip trash meets hard left and hard right wing (don't ask) editorial bullshit rolled into one. I'm bemused as to how they got Duchovny and why they asked him about anything other than Gillian Andersons boobs...
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We don't have Reality Show based movies??
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You can probably guess what it's about. A little more plot that your average porno flick...but not much.
-- Nic
Seconded: Darin Morgan rocks my frickin' socks. A short, yet brilliant career. If you haven't, I'd recommend looking up the Millennium eps he wrote from season two: "Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense'" and "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me".
"Once upon a time, two East Indian immigrants gave birth to a baby boy, whom they loved very dearly, yet nevertheless named 'Juggernaut Onan Goopta'..."
Well, you can read the scripts here and here, though reading them is a far cry from seeing the actual episodes.
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
The first one sucked and ruined the rest of the series for me. Why bother?
This has been old for about 2 weeks, its sad when geek news like this comes around so slowly here at slashdot =/
"Girl you know it's just a show,"
but deep within his eyes I see me wrapped up like a bow,
Watching the sky for a sign, the FBI is on my mind,
I'm waiting for the day - when my lucky stars align
In the form of David Duchovny, floating above me,
in the alien light of the spaceship of love, oh,
David Duchovny, hovering above me,
American Heathcliff, brooding and comely,
David Duchovny, why won't you love me,
Why won't you love me, why won't you love me?
So smooth and so smart, he's abducted my heart, and I'm falling apart
from the looks I've received from those eyes I can't leave;
well you can say I'm naive, but he told me to believe!!
The Xfiles was, and is, an incredible series, but I think it's ran its course. I'm now watching through the entire series from scratch on DVD and loving it still, but after almost a decade one thing became clear as the two primary actors were leaving -- there was nothing to reveal. The story carries itself due to the unrevealedness of the things it discusses: government conspiracies, alien existence, ancient lore of monsters, spiritualism and unexplained phenomena.... It utilized the same interesting substance as "The Night Stalker" from years past that my dad used to watch when I was a kid (glad they finally paid homage to that in an episode). But the ability of the show, movie, whathaveyou to continue to deliver that chemical ruch in our brains due to the stories it tells containing these "unexplained" mysteries has surely been pushed. Fandome can carry it like it has Star Trek, but what we are all really bemoaning here is the fact that Chris Carter, Xfiles itself, could never deliver what we really wanted: a conclusion, an end-game, a closure to all the built-up mystery. It's like asking an MMOG to have an "end." It just isn't that sort of thing.
As I retorted in an IRC channel on the day it was announced that DD and GA were leaving the show and a guy stated, "DD and GA are leaving before Carter has a chance to reveal anything!!!" I responded, "dude, he's had nearly 10 years to reveal something -- he's got nothing to reveal...."
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
yeah. Penny Arcade has a great comic about this. (duchovny's voicing over crappy games) Tycho- Actually, this might be a step up for you.
This movie already is in script development, and apparently Gillian Anderson is loosely attached, said by the Hollywood Stock Exchange. (http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/SecurityDetail?symb ol=XFIL2)
Another interesting thing to note- After this /. article came out, the stock for X-files 2 dropped over 4 dollars. /. now affects the stock market!
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8010
---snip---
Actually, it looks like David Duchovny was getting a little ahead of himself when he told USA Today last week that the film was slated to begin production later this year. "There's nothing at the moment going on," Chris Carter's agent, Elliott Webb, says. "There is no negotiation, there's no script written, there's nothing other than a desire for people to get together."
---/snip---
I think they can find better.
If anything, recent policital events in the US have made me even MORE distrusting of our government and their potential for lies and cover-ups. WMDs, anyone? Prison torture? Patriot act and monitoring all types of communications?
These things make me even more worried and paranoid, to be honest.
It was an incredible show about 10 years ago, and by the time it ended no one cared (probably 'cause they started making it up week to week as they went along).
As any guy knows, marriage miraculously makes women gain 30 lbs.
So her being too thin will not be a problem.
It seems they're either like an octopus, with multiple limbs randomly flailing around, or they're like giant insects, which have no other purpose in life but to creep around in vents and behind walls and freak people out. Yet all the while they were somehow able to conquer space travel and find us before we found them.
You have to admit, the kid they had in that episode was perfect.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
I watched all 9 seasons more or less. I stuck it out to the end even though it should have ended seasons before. I just wanted closure.
There seem to be two camps. Those who preferred the "mythology" eps (aliens conspiracy) and those who liked the "Monster of the week".
I am one of the former. I hated the MOTW eps as they were just filler. I only really enjoy shows with an arc as it evokes my curiousity about what happens next. MOTW leaves me with no desire to tune in again for more filler.
So if it is MOTW I ceratinly won't bother. The mythology story line was such a bungled dragged on mess that I have no interest in getting back into it. I don't think they are going to offer any more closure.
I think this thing is dead in the water.
Maybe make a full blown invasion movie out of it, with duchovny leading the Earth rebel forces... Nah... forget it. Just don't bother. It is done, overdone...
I'd be willing to consider watching a movie based on a reality show, but only if it was guaranteed that the movie was entirely fiction. Perhaps (though not necessarily) based on a fictional reality show. That is to say, a fictional reality show movie.
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For those of you who love movies and knowing what's coming up, check out the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
For instance, X-Files 2 has been trading since 1998. Granted, it was probably speculation then but I had bought "stock" about six months ago.
HSX seems to be a place for the producers of Hollywood to dump new ideas on hundreds of thousands of movie buffs, and see how the reaction goes, before committing and certainly before old news "news" articles like this one :)
Evidently. Have you read the USA PATRIOT act?
- Michael T. Babcock (Yes, I blog)
What is with fanboys/fangirls and their obsessive abbreviations? You're not writing an instant message. Let's take a look:
GA's => her
TXF => X Files
FTF => the movie
DD => Duchovny
For a mere 15 extra keystrokes, you could have sounded like a human being instead of some raving scifi loonie.
Given her height I'd say she went from 140 to 110. That's hard as hell for a woman.
Series 7
Vorlon tavutna chog!
... which means "Spiritual" in russian. Did his parents came from that region, like, for example, parents of Isaac Asimov? They also share the origin of names - both names are jewish. And answering to question, asked in this thread before - yes, they have much to add to X-Files. For example, why not to get some idea from british serial "Bugs", like evil computer AI or something :) You see, if Kasparov lost to AI, why not to send The Best FBI Agent Ever to destroy that evil?