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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."
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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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.
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.
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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.
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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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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!
or.... he just wants you to believe that.
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.
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I seem to recall reading around the time the series ended that Duchovny and Anderson were both contractually obligated to make a second film, if it came to that.
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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.
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According to this interview with David Duchovny, it sounds like they want to do a "Monster of the Week" movie ...
I can just see it now. Mulder has a theory that the devasted Japanese city was due to a giant radioactive dinosaur who breathes fire wrestling with a giant moth. Scully refuses to believe. There must be a scientific explanation for the giant footprints all over town. Scully get separated from Mulder and doesn't get to witness Godzilla and Mothra having a rematch in downtown Tokyo. Mulder tries to explain but Scully refuses to listen since she didn't see it with her own eyes. In the end, Mulder buys her a Hello Killy vibrator and the two travel back to the States.
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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Amen. I've been watching a lot of reruns on TNT lately, and the standalone episodes are the best. The ones that try to build the mythology just keep leading to confusion.
and lord knows every nerd worth his salt enjoys looking at Gillian Anderson
Have you seen the recent pictures of her?
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