Second X-Files Movie in 2006 (Now Maybe 2008?) - Page 2

John C · 04-08-2005, 12:28 PM

That's the problem. Chris Carter wrote himself into a corner on this one. People would naturally wonder how Mulder and Scully went from on the run to back in the FBI with all forgiven. You can't just pick up like nothing ever happened unless the movie will be a prequel. Think about it this way,

Spoiler:

The thing that got so frustrating with the X-Files in later seasons was that you could tell that the writers just made up the mythology stuff as they went along. The fact that they had to spend an hour of the finale explaining everything is proof of that.

Daniel Kikin · 04-08-2005, 03:02 PM

They can quickly resolve that though, have a case come up that only Mulder and Scully could solve, cut a deal, and bring them back. It sounds too easy, but with the way they messed up the mytharc, I just want a quick solution to bringing them back and then get on with the main plot.

Bruce*A · 04-08-2005, 03:41 PM

I'm all for another X-Files movie but why does it have to have anything at all to do with the TV series? Why can't it just be an exciting/scary adventure with some new character development from Scully and Mulder?

Not may people were watching the series near the end so there would most likely need to be some explaining to do get people up to speed. However most everyone is familiar with the basic idea of the series so no explanations would be needed. Just have Mulder and Scully still with the FBI and solving strange cases. I know I'd be all over a series of movies like that.

Linda Thompson · 04-08-2005, 11:40 PM

Duchovny's currently getting some press as a result of having directed "House Of D" (his directorial debut). Here's another mini-interview (mostly the same info re-iterated):

http://tinyurl.com/5gafh

His episode of "Inside The Actors Studio" is also set for a few airings over the next few days (on BRAVO; all times Eastern):

April 10: 7:00PM
April 11: 1:00AM
April 13: 3:00PM

(Billy Bob Thornton, Andy Garcia, Kiefer Sutherland, Alan Alda, Clint Eastwood, James Woods...among others...ITAS eps also scheduled over the next week or so. Check your listings if interested. Personally, I LOVE this show.)

Lloyd White · 04-09-2005, 02:44 AM

Looking forward to this movie, in whatever form it comes in. The only thing is that this franchise was built, and destroyed by its fans. Similar to Star Trek in a way that most of the rabid fanboy fanbase will not ever believe the franchise will ever produce anything good again. Ofcourse those not into the show but might want to see the movie will hear of all the negativety and just stay away. This movie has about as much chance of succeeding as Star Trek: Nemesis did.

And that's a shame. Also, you can say whatever you want about X-files' later seasons, but the show was always progressive. The more I hear of people wanting X-Files to just stay the same, the more I just want to roll my eyes.

Personally, I'd like to see the new movie have both the monster of the week bits and the conspiracy at the same time.

Ted Lee · 04-09-2005, 03:18 PM

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but the show was always progressive.

yeah...progressively stupider!

thank you...i'm here all week!

Bill GrandPre · 04-09-2005, 04:27 PM

I would have liked to have seen Doggett and Reyes continue the show while leaving Mulder and Scully to theatrical films. It could have worked out like "Star Trek: The Next Generation" airing while films with the original crew were released. The show was called "The X-Files", not "The Mulder & Scully Show", and the two new characters gave the show a new life. Of course, they didn't live up to Mulder & Scully, but Doggett only had 2 years to grow and Reyes had just a little over a year, so the bottom line is this: we'll never know whether or not they would have been able to keep the show running, but I believe that it was looking promising. They certainly weren't the Coy and Vance versions of Mulder and Scully. They were unique characters in their own right and it's a shame that more people don't appreciate them, and let's face it, Mulder & Scully were sort of becoming tired by the sixth and seventh season. I love the characters of Mulder and Scully. They deserve credit for the phenomenon "The X-Files" became. However, I believe that an eighth and ninth season with full-time Mulder & Scully would have been worse than what we got with the introduction of Doggett and Reyes. I look at other shows like "Law & Order", "CSI" and "Star Trek" that have started franchises with various spinoffs that share nothing but the basic premise and I feel that "The X-Files" had a lot more life left in it. As for the "monster of the week vs. mythology" debate on the movie, I think mythology is the only way to go. The casual fans may like MOTW-type stuff, but if you're a casual fan you haven't seen every "X-Files" episode by definition so there are tons of unseen "MOTW" adventures that can be "discovered" by watching reruns. Those of us who have seen every single episode of "The X-Files" are the ones who patiently waited for the few mythology episodes that aired during each season and now that the show is no longer being produced, our only chance to experience the "X-Files" mythology is to wait for new movies. If we're lucky, the new "X-Files" movie will be out next year. That will mark a 4-year period from the last time we saw any "X-Files" characters. Does it really make sense to feature the characters in a throwaway story when it's been 4 years since we last saw them?

Daniel Kikin · 04-10-2005, 11:11 PM

Doggett and Reyes may have worked out better in a true spinoff, but IMO, the they way the producers tried to have them continue the same storyline and mytharc in the last season or two contributed greatly to the show's decline at the end. I find it much easier to appreciate those last couple of seasons now, but I think it would have been better to end the show after the seventh season, put Mulder and Scully in movies, and have a separate spinoff with Doggett and Reyes doing their own thing as opposed to finishing off what Mulder and Scully started.

Ernest Rister · 04-11-2005, 01:17 AM

I like the episode were Dogget was shot, and died, and then an Indian Shaman barfed up copious amounts of beige liquid into a pit, liquid which formed into the body of Dogget, and thus, Dogget was resurrected. And then the next week, during some subway moster episode, he was back to doubting the supernatural, having to make yet another leap of faith and trust Dana Scully.

Granted, this was always a problem in the Mulder and Scully episodes in the earlier seasons as well, but it was just so extreme in the Dogget episodes (dying and being resurrected by a barfing native is a bit out there) that the whole formula became ludicrous.

The real issues with seasons 8 and 9, though, were more problematic than that -- Dana Scully had nowhere to go as a character. She was the Voice of Science, the Doubter, the Ying to Mulder's Yang. In Seasons 8 and 9, she was asked to basically play the Mulder role with Dogget playing the Doubter and Voice of Reason. Her journey as a character was from the Skeptic to the Believer. Once she became the believer, she was no longer as interesting to watch.

Sam Favate · 04-11-2005, 07:24 AM

Personally, I think the problem with the later seasons is that the writing became sloppy -- in addition to the myth arc becoming too convoluted. I watched the show when it first aired (and again on DVD) and I noticed a slip in the quality of the writing from season 5 onward, with each season getting worse. By seasons 7-8-9, the show was either sloppy or incomprehensible. Still, if a second movie could harken back to the days of seasons 1-2-3-4 (or the best parts of seasons 5-6), it could be a great film.

As for story arcs that go for years, they often get too confusing. I think that's because the writers are making it up as they go. It's clear to us now that Chris Carter, et. al., did not have an end or a resolution in mind when the X-Files began and had no idea how they'd resolve the myth arc. Of course, one place such an arc did work was on Babylon 5, but there the 5-year story was plotted in advance. Much like the X-Files, Alias is a show that is making it up as it goes along now, and the show stretches credibility and becomes more convoluted every week.

Russell G · 07-17-2007, 04:58 PM

I didn't see any threads about this when I searched, so I thought I'd start a thread. I saw this news:

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Second X-Files Movie Moving Forward
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
July 15, 2007

The X-Files star David Duchovny indicated Saturday during the Television Critics Association press tour that a sequel to the first feature is one step closer to becoming a reality.

"I'm supposed to see a script next week," Duchovny said, adding that creator Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz wrote the screenplay and that Carter is set to direct.

Duchovny also reiterated past remarks that he and "X-Files" co-star Gillian Anderson "are on board" the follow-up to the 1998 film and the series that ran on Fox from 1993 to 2002.

Duchovny was at TCA promoting his upcoming Showtime comedy series "Californication," which debuts August 13.

Now, admittedly, I hate this show. The premise wore thin after the third season, and by season 5 or so, it became pretty clear that they had no idea what they were doing anymore. I stopped watching around the time Robert Patrick showed up. So why am I starting a thread for a movie about a TV-Show I hate?

I like consperacy hokum. Sorry.

So what's your opinion on this one? It's not like their's a giant buzz around X-Files as a property. I'm guessing:

20th Century Fox is desperate for a new franchise, seeing as X-Men is pretty much done and their other superhero films kinda sucked (Elektra, I'm looking at you kiddo.)

Or

David Duchovney and more so, Chris Carter really need to generate heat.

I can't imagine that Chris Carter has been sitting on a great idea since X-Files wrapped up, that he has to make this movie now. He would of rolled the dice on that idea 4 years ago.

So who's excited?