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Re: Second X-Files Movie in 2006 (Now Maybe 2008?)
I think the stars just sorta aligned to get this going:
Duchovny has a new show which has raised his profile
The script is ready pre-strike
Doing a "monster of the week"-style script as opposed to a big sci-fi spectacle will likely result in this being pretty moderately-budgeted which makes it a pretty safe bet even if it isn't a huge blockbuster.
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As deliciously, effervescently excited as I am about this news, didn't the series end with a major, portentous cliffhanger??? How can they do just a "monster-of-the-week" story after all this time like damn near Armageddon isn't a few short years away? They better get a promise from 20th Century Fox that, no matter how movie #2 performs, they'll greenlight #3 so we can get true resolution to the entire mythology arc.
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Re: Second X-Files Movie in 2006 (Now Maybe 2008?)
I've discussed that on other forums.
There are rumors that they are going the "lost episode" route and this new movie will take place somewhere during season 7. That obviously has the downside of not being able to really have any repercussions whatsoever but it would allow them to bring back the supporting cast, almost all of which was dead by the time the series ended.
A "monster of the week" movie with Mulder & Scully as FBI agents is gonna be a bigger crowd-pleaser than a "mythology" movie that continues the mytharc but making the more crowd-pleasing movie can only help the chances of the riskier one being made.
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In the final episode Mulder found out that there will be an alien invasion on December 22, 2012. December 21, 2012 is a Friday and that's roughly four and a half years after the release date of the new movie. I don't think the 10-year gap between "X-Files" movies really counts because the show was on the air for nearly half that time but 4 and a half years between the second and third films is certainly feasible.
I say let them make a pile of money off of this one and use that as a springboard for the more fan-centric movie. The whole thing is very marketable too, they marketing potential in counting down to a massive alien invasion is pretty obvious, and I can see networks like the History Channel running a lot of stuff about the Mayan calendar since most calculations put it between December 21 and 23rd 2012 (which is obviously where they got the idea) and then when the world doesn't end Fox can say it was because Mulder & Scully stopped the invasion.
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Not to me. This just jumped to the top of my must-see list next year! (Yes, even above Indy and Batman).
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I feel the same about the next Star Trek movie.
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I feel the same about the next Star Trek movie.
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As the biggest Trekker I know, I cannot share this sentiment. I still dread THE YOUNG KIRK AND SPOCK CHRONICLES...
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Sorry, you don't know me.
I grew up with these guys. I'm absolutely looking forward to seeing the original trio reborn.
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If you think TREK works best when it's looking to the past instead of the future, or that Shatner, Nimoy, Kelley, Doohan, et al aren't important as long as the script has names like Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, et al in it, then I hope you enjoy yourself. As it is, TREK feels more dead to me now with this movie pending than it did in 1977, when we never thought we'd ever see a new TREK adventure ever again...
...but we digress from X-FILES, which has every chance of being phenomenal on the big screen again!
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I think good stories work with good characters regardless of how long they have been around ie Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Batman etc. Both franchises had that. X-files frittered their character's cachet away with poor story making choices to the point that the characters were undermined.
I like ST chances far better than the X-Files but wish Carter et al good luck with the moive.
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I think good stories work with good characters regardless of how long they have been around ie Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Batman etc.
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I grow so very tired of that argument. First of all, every example you list existed in print before film came along to reinterpret it (which is not the case with TREK), so even the first performance of these characters was a reinterpretation; thusly, they better lend themselves to tolerable further reinterpretations. Secondly, none of them had the same actors performing their respective characters for
forty years before someone decided to reinvent the performance wheel. It's one thing to shake a decade of Michael Keaton as Batman, or even two decades of Sean Connery as Bond; quite another to upend almost half a century of the same people playing the same people.
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I grow so very tired of that argument.
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And I am even more tired of people claiming that they are tired of a valid point.
Making such a statement does not alter the validity of a point. Any character can be portrayed by another actor. We're not talking Shakespeare here.
Anyhow, back to X-Files - good luck Carter - I'm interested in seeing how he extricates the characters from the jumbled mess of dangling plot lines left over from the series.
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Y'know, I'm looking over the cast list of "The X-Files" right now...
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Ah, but I'd pay through the nose to see that X-FILES movie!
And Lou, my statement was supported with ample points that expose your point as, if not outright invalid, then at least rather specious.
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Cheers Travis.
And your points are subjectively restrictive whereas mine are more spacious as opposed to specious.
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Probably for the best since at this point in time few remember or care about the show's mythology anymore.
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Assuming the monster-of-the-week approach delivers enough goods for the studio to release a third film, then we could have an interesting thematic spread across the "trilogy" of movies:
THE X-FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE: Mythology
THE X-FILES 2: Monster-of-the-week
THE X-FILES 3: Everything and the kitchen sink summation--M & S save the world!
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I do hope they forgo the numberring method for the sequel. All it needs is a subtitle like the first film had.
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Agreed, because, if for no other reason, it would make the next movie or two look like direct sequels to the first X-FILES film, which they won't be. Technically speaking, though, "Fight the Future" isn't the first film's subtitle--it's its marketing tagline. It's just been incorporated as part of the first film's title by certain fans (like myself) because to say just "THE X-FILES" doesn't clarify whether one is talking about the movie or the TV show and to say "the X-FILES movie" sounds terribly generic (and will be an even more problematic phrasing now that there will be more than one X-FILES movie).
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Whenever I see people bashing on the last two seasons ("The Doggett era") I attribute it to a kinda knee-jerk reaction and I don't think those people ever gave those years a fair shake.
In terms of writing, the only times where the writing staff really suffered any significant losses were in season 2 and 4 when Glen Morgan & James Wong left. The loss of Darin Morgan (Glen's bro) also sucked but it's not as if he was a significant creative driving force behind the show, he just wrote his handful of mind-blowingly brilliant episodes and left.
Aside from Morgan & Wong you had the same people writing the show for pretty much the entire life of the show: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban, and Vince Gilligan. These guys were on the show until the very end and their work was just as good towards the end as it was earlier.
As for Robert Patrick, even a lot of die-hard M&S fans came around to him. He's a great character, it's not a "Dukes of Hazzard" situation where the network tried introducing Mulder & Scully clones.
I know the idea of "The X-Files" without Mulder or Scully was shocking to most people at first but the show has been off the air for over 5 years and Duchovny's tenure on the show as a full castmember has been over for more than 7. Right now there are two criminally-underrated seasons of "The X-Files" that those people would actually like if they truly gave them a fair shake.
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But the reality is, it just ain't THE X-FILES without Mulder. Our search for the truth is his search for the truth. It was an interesting study in the fact that even great writing can suffer if it isn't in service to the right character. Doggett and Reyes weren't bad characters, at all, they just weren't the right characters.
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