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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.
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LET THE BEATING OF THE DEAD HORSE BEGIN!!!!
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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.
Next you'll be saying they shouldn't make the Star Wars prequels without a script...
Well those turned out all righ... err, bad example.
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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.
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.
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.
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I hope the movie's like that episode. That would be awesome.
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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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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
Regardless, we should all be so fortunate that we don't have movies based on reality shows....yet.
SSSSSHHHHH!!! You're giving them ideas!
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.
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.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
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...
Duchovny WANTS TO BELIEVE there is a sequel in the works.
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
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.
...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".
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