Second "X-Files" pic moving toward production

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The "X-Files" film sequel is heating up.

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Co-star David Duchovny indicated Saturday during the Television Critics Association press tour that the film, which has been the subject of speculation for the past few years, is one step closer to becoming a reality.

"I'm supposed to see a script next week," Duchovny said at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, 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.

The film reportedly was delayed in part because of a now-settled lawsuit filed by Carter in late 2005 against 20th Century Fox Television alleging breach of contract, contractual interference and other claims over payments allegedly owed to him from the series.

Duchovny was at TCA promoting his upcoming Showtime comedy series "Californication," which debuts August 13.
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am I the only one that just wants to see a standalone movie? I don't want them to continue the mythology and make things even more confusing and stupid.
 
AniHawk said:
This will probably take another 10 years until it actually gets made ala the fifth Superman and Indy IV.
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I remember hearing rumors about the second film shortly after the original came out, so the 10 year waiting period is almost up!
 
woodchuck said:
am I the only one that just wants to see a standalone movie? I don't want them to continue the mythology and make things even more confusing and stupid.
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That's pretty much idea behind the second film.
 
woodchuck said:
am I the only one that just wants to see a standalone movie? I don't want them to continue the mythology and make things even more confusing and stupid.
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With the way the series ended, I'd like a few loose ends tied, but we probably won't get that. :(
 
It's like, I want to care, but the show went on way too long, milking the concept, long past the point the main character actors were interested anymore, long past any logical stopping point, long past the main alien conspiracy story arc had run its course (all the principle villains died long before the end, except for the main one, who all but disappeared until the series finale), etc, etc...

And now that Carter, Duchovny, and Anderson aren't doing anything careerwise anymore, they want to go back and re-milk a pretty damn dry cow.

I WANT TO BELIEVE but I'm finding it hard.
 
I thought I recalled hearing that future movies would likely be standalone? For one, too much time has passed between the ending of the show and when the movie will finally come out (2009 at the very earliest, I'd guess). I mean, I'm sure there will be tons of references, but they couldn't realistically do a continuation of the series and expect the audience to remember the details of that godawful last episode.
 
I liked the X-Files series end. It ties in with the Mayan calender stuff, but the couple of years without Mulder at the end of the series really weren't that great.
 
Scully was hot back in the day...in a 'please strip search me and pat me down' kind of way.

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Hollywood_mIRC said:
She got naked in a recent European movie that comes out here in like a couple months. :D
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:o DETAILS! If I can somehow send this back in a time machine to Younger Me, I might be able to make myself straight.
 
The movie is called Straightheads - I think it's going to be called Closure for its US release. It's straight to DVD, here's info on it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480011/

There's not really any videos out since it hasn't been released on DVD yet, but there's some caps of the trailer yuo can find on the internet. She's still pretty hot.
 
original xfiles movie was pretty beast. I think i was 15 at the time and easily entertained but...

1st time at the theater, no bullshit, 20 mins before the end of the movie the film (and i mean literally, the film in the projector at the theater) caught on fire...it was a pretty trippy thing to watch on screen.

Anyway, you can guess what happened next...the REAL xfiles dorks started making jokes about "they don't want us to know the end! the truth is out there!" etc. It was almost as cheesy as some of the lines in the movie.

Still, i'd pay to see a sequel. Xfiles is the best TV action/drama series ever to this day. Or at least it was up until T1000 took over.
 
duchovny was on kcrw's the treatment a while back and talked about this a bit, as well as his experience on the x-files. it was really interesting hearing him talk candidly about being so burnt out on the show toward the end; it's pretty clear at points that he doesn't feel quite the same way about it now that it's clearly going to be the high point of his career. whatever the case, he's a really interesting, funny guy, and i'd love to see him step back in to this character.

one massive request for the movie: GET DARIN MORGAN TO WRITE.
 
A few months back I read that Charter and Spotnitz were about to start writing the screenplay. The report back then said that it would be more of a horror movie than a mystery movie. Which does make much more sense for a X-Files movie. IIRC Dogett is also supposed to be in the movie, and I hope agent Reyes also makes it!
 
I'd love a new movie, I always liked the x files (except for the seasons without Mulder).

And I still fancy Scully
 
{Mike} said:
X-Files the movie sucked anyways. Can wait for the sequel.
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Sucked like first Star Wars or Indiana Jones yeah. Even Siskel and Ebert that never watched the show gave it two big thumbs up.

THis one sadly is not about mytho, so no resolution will take place.
 
beelzebozo said:
one massive request for the movie: GET DARIN MORGAN TO WRITE.
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Hell yes.

Or you know, they could just forget about this and make a movie that gives Millennium a proper ending. That would be great too.
 
madara said:
THis one sadly is not about mytho, so no resolution will take place.
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If this makes money there is no doubt in my mind they will do another film or two and can deal with that stuff. It has been far too long to jump into mytho' stuff right now since most of the audience can't remember that stuff. And it makes sense. A film or two set after this one would be out in likely 2012 following the traditional 3 year gap of "blockbuster" sequels.

There is no doubt in my mind Carter, Duchovny, and Anderson had to so sign a three picture deal going into this.
 
man I hate x files, the truth never really was out there at all. Even the first movies tag line was something like 'WE TOTALLY FIND THE TRUTH IN THIS ONE'

then they didn't even find the truth.that was some bullshit.
 
catfish said:
man I hate x files, the truth never really was out there at all. Even the first movies tag line was something like 'WE TOTALLY FIND THE TRUTH IN THIS ONE'

then they didn't even find the truth.that was some bullshit.
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The tagline/subtitle for the first movie was "Fight the Future"

And coming off the fifth season, it DID reveal a whole ****ing lot about the conspiracy and set up the remaining seasons.

Watch these DVDs in this order and you get the whole mythology storyline:

1. The X-Files Mythology, Vol. 1 - Abduction
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2. The X-Files Mythology, Vol. 2 - Black Oil
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3 & 4. The X-Files Mythology, Vol. 3 - Colonization AND The X-Files - Fight the Future
Watch the movie immediately following "The End" on disc one of Colonization
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5. The X-Files Mythology, Vol. 4 - Super Soldiers
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ManaByte said:
The tagline/subtitle for the first movie was "Fight the Future"

And coming off the fifth season, it DID reveal a whole ****ing lot about the conspiracy and set up the remaining seasons.

Watch these DVDs in this order and you get the whole mythology storyline:

*images*
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Interesting, are they just parts of the season discs, or separate titles altogether?
 
Gillian Anderson is beautiful and is aging very well, she's aging in a very "Madonna-esque" way, I think.

In any case, I always found it funny to watch her play Scully on the X-Files, then see her do an interview or something and come across as a completely ditzy airhead. I'm sure she's intelligent, but she really came across as a complete spaz and "cheerleader" dumby in interviews alot of times.
 
ManaByte said:
They released just the mythology episodes of the series in separate four sets.
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I just checked em out on amazon and they look freakin cool, can't believe I hadn't heard of them before, cheers for the heads-up.
 
john tv said:
How did the series end, anyway? I stopped watching a while before it was over.
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In the last episode, Mulder was effectively put on trial before some sort of govt/military group. This allowed for them to do basically a full on hour of pure exposition, attempting to tie everything that had happened in the series together. Poorly. Then there was like a 20 minute chase sequence and the cigarette smoking man got blown up by a missle. It was terrible.
 
White Man said:
In the last episode, Mulder was effectively put on trial before some sort of govt/military group. This allowed for them to do basically a full on hour of pure exposition, attempting to tie everything that had happened in the series together. Poorly. Then there was like a 20 minute chase sequence and the cigarette smoking man got blown up by a missle. It was terrible.
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QFT. The greatest series of my youth went up in a puff of smoke.
 
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