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New X-Files Movie

Posted by kdawson on from the i-want-to-believe-it dept.

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).

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  1. It will never reach the cinema by david_craig · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Aliens won't probe anymore by sTalking_Goat · · Score: 4, Informative

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

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    My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...

  3. Nope (was Re:Aliens won't probe anymore) by Ganesh999 · · Score: 3, Informative

    > 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

  4. Re:it's funny by cHALiTO · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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    "Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad." -- Terry Pratchett