New X-Files Movie

An anonymous reader writes to let us know that a new X-Files movie is in pre-production, directed and written by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Duchovny said in an interview that his understanding is that filming will start in November for a summer 2008 release. The article notes that in an earlier interview, Anderson said the film "would stay away from the series' (and first film's) sometimes tortured mythology" (quoting the article, not Anderson).

Comments

Re:Wait, what?!

[ChromeAeonium]

It will be like the monster of the week episodes. There'll be some monster/mutant/ghost/miscellaneous paranormal phenomenon/entity to center the movie around, but no extraterrestrials or global conspiracy covering up said extraterrestrials .

It will never reach the cinema

[david_craig]

As someone who shares a flat with an avid X-Files (or more correctly Gillian Anderson) fan, I've been hearing rumours about this for, oh, at least two years now. And even now it sounds as though the script hasn't even been finalised yet, and they might not have all the funding they require at this point. Because the series finished so long ago, and (even according to a significant portion of fans) lost it's way over the final couple of series I think this movie is going to be a hard sell for a mainstream audience. Which I think will result in budgeting problems for the producers, which could mean delays or the filming not even being completed. I'd love to seen another X-Files outing, (and not just to watch my flat mate explode in the ecstasy of a celluloid Anderson experience) however I'm a very long way from getting my hopes up.

Re:well, the aliens left

[Tablizer]

a movie about the return of the sideshow freaks might be good

Oh, that was funny as shit! X-files was one of the few series that both my wife and I watched (normally, we have very different tastes). After the sideshow episode, we both starting using the cliche, "Don't worry, somebody ate the problem".

Re:The Lone Gunmen die!

[tylersoze]

Yeah it's a reference to this infamous Slashdot article: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/22/022222 1 I thought it was especially appropriate given the previous Harry Potter spoiler article.

Re:Aliens won't probe anymore

[sTalking_Goat]

she only going to be 40. She's not that old.

Re:Lost is better

[1u3hr]

For a start: the story actually goes somewhere in Lost. They actually did some story writing ahead of time instead of just tossing out some meaningless obscure crap every now and then. The suspense in Lost means something because you know it's eventually going to be dealt with

My god, you're trusting. Did you ever watch Alias, JJ Abrams' previous series? It had a lot of mysterious backstory, involving the magical Rambaldi devices and several -- I lost count -- rival secret spy organisations, and everybody related to and alternately saving or betraying each other. It ended in a disappointing, confused pile of nonsense worse than the X-Files finale.

If Abrams has an ending planned, it's going to use a lot of "it was just a dream/illusion" etc, to paper over the cracks.

Re:Aliens won't probe anymore

[albyselkie]

At the risk of espousing an opinion that has nothing to do with Gillian Anderson's hotness (but since it seems to be a prereq for the thread, I think she is still both hotter and more genuine than approximately 84% of the actresses in the biz), maybe--despite some of the crap of the later seasons--Chris Carter has earned enough trust for X-Files fans to give a new movie the benefit of the doubt, at least.

And Lost? Eh. Never got me watching. The X-files did, even if those days were long ago and far away. Maybe the aliens won't probe, but it sure would be fun if they would.

"hot" women

[caitsith01]

Dana Scully was hot initially, but over time she got older, and whinier, and then the whole hooking up with Fox, and the child and the.... oh man, totally sucked the hot right out and replaced it with booooring

If you want consistently "hot" women then try watching porn, that's what it's for.

Scully's character was very complex and brought a vital part of the main dynamic of the x-files (faith/spirituality versus objectivity/rationality) to life. On matters of the paranormal, she represented science and objectivity against Mulder's sometimes irrational desire to believe. Yet on matters of spirituality, she supported religion in the face of Mulder's skepticism. Over time their roles would intertwine, invert, and revert. When Mulder left and Agent Doggett took over, Scully became the 'Mulder' type character with a belief in the paranormal and Doggett the unbeliever.

In summary: Scully was/is a great and interesting character who drove the series beyond the usual two-dimensional sci-fi claptrap. If you stopped watching because she isn't "hot" to your standards, then you are a fool of the highest order. I note that you did not make similar remarks about Duchovny's character, when he has aged quite a bit too (apart from his hands, which remain perfect).

Nope (was Re:Aliens won't probe anymore)

[Ganesh999]

> Gillian Anderson has got to be pretty old by now. The fun may be
> gone.

Nope. She was recently in a UK TV production of Bleak House.

She's certainly less gamine, but still *gorgeous*, at least to my taste (to me Sigourney Weaver's hotter in Alien Resurrection than the original).

Conrad

Re:it's funny

[cHALiTO]

I think the work of tolkien you refer to at the beggining is his essay "On Fairy-Stories" published in "Tree and Leaf".

At some point he says something about fantasy and world creation (or sub-creation) being not so much 'escapism' as in a deserting soldier (a rather demeaning word), but rather as in a prisoner escaping to freedom.

Highly recommended reading.