Possible Third X-Files Movie

[RealmOfX]

Chris Carter Discusses A Third ‘X-Files’ Movie

Chris Carter discussed the possibility of a third movie during a charity event this weekend. See article for details.

[DigiFluid]

http://forum.gateworld.net/threads/3...ciation-Thread

[the fifth man]

I would love a third film.

[selene0789]

ANYTHING to erase the memories of the latest movie from my mind. That movie was horribly awful. I didn't even think it could qualify as an X-Files movie. It was like watching one of those "20 yrs later" reels where everyone is fat and unhappy and unfulfilled. Not that anyone was literally fat.

Anyone else know what I mean? Feel free to chime in

[Flyboy]

ANYTHING to erase the memories of the latest movie from my mind. That movie was horribly awful. I didn't even think it could qualify as an X-Files movie. It was like watching one of those "20 yrs later" reels where everyone is fat and unhappy and unfulfilled. Not that anyone was literally fat.

Anyone else know what I mean? Feel free to chime in

Felt like a pretty good bigger budget MOTW ep to me...

[Linda06]

If this is true I hope it's better than the last effort.

[the fifth man]

I think another movie would be great. I would like to see Mulder and Scully at least one more time.

[Snowman37]

Felt like a pretty good bigger budget MOTW ep to me...

Exactly the problem with the movie. It plays out as a two-hour episode with a movie budget. When I first saw the movie on DVD, I felt like I was watching a thriller that should be starring Morgan Freeman. There was nothing in the movie (except for Mulder and Scully) that made it feel like The X Files at all. That, more than anything, was the film's greatest flaw.

[Flyboy]

I disagree, I think a culture has developed where, if stuff isnt exploding, no one cares. Many XF eps were thrillers, not action, why cant the m
ovie be?

[Dixie_Vampiress]

ANYTHING to erase the memories of the latest movie from my mind. That movie was horribly awful. I didn't even think it could qualify as an X-Files movie. It was like watching one of those "20 yrs later" reels where everyone is fat and unhappy and unfulfilled. Not that anyone was literally fat.

Anyone else know what I mean? Feel free to chime in

Agreed.

[Snowman37]

I disagree, I think a culture has developed where, if stuff isnt exploding, no one cares. Many XF eps were thrillers, not action, why cant the movie be?

I didn't say anything about stuff exploding. I simply said that the movie didn't feel like an X Files movie. Pluck out Mulder and Scully, replace them with new characters... you've got the exact same movie. That's a problem, that's why I was bored with it. It felt like a generic science-fiction thriller that just happened to feature Mulder and Scully. It doesn't need to be a special effects extravaganza, but it should have incorporated more elements from the X Files world than three characters.

[Thunderstorm]

I didn't say anything about stuff exploding. I simply said that the movie didn't feel like an X Files movie. Pluck out Mulder and Scully, replace them with new characters... you've got the exact same movie. That's a problem, that's why I was bored with it. It felt like a generic science-fiction thriller that just happened to feature Mulder and Scully. It doesn't need to be a special effects extravaganza, but it should have incorporated more elements from the X Files world than three characters.

Exactly. Only for me it was not even a good generic scifi movie. I think they had about 1/2 hr of interesting story in their that might have made a decent Outer Limits episode. But they tried to stretch it into a movie and it fell apart.

Forget the 10 yrs later crap, set the movie before last ep of season 7, make it a 2 hr episode like the 1st movie, starring Mulder and Scully and you'll get me interested.

[Snowman37]

How do you propose the actors look as they did in 2000?

[selene0789]

They could try breaching the time-space paradox. If they felt like trying to mimic the SG-1 model, Scully could see Mulder die somehow, go back in time, then in the past prevent him from being abducted by aliens or whatever in Season... what was it? I stopped watching because that was where I heard the show stopped being good.

It worked for SG-1 in Continuum, but let's face it, that's kinda a lofty goal. How about something simple like... Following up with David Arquette and the trailer park vampires. That was a fantastically hilarious episode. Loved it.

Besides, vamps are all the rage nowadays, aren't they? The tween crowd could be re-introduced to REAL sci-fi/fantasy.

[shipper hannah]

I love the idea of more X-Files.. but can it be pulled off?

The last film wasn't bad, but it was an average MOTW episode with more time and a bigger budget. On the other hand.. you can't drag up the old mythology again because it was already so complicated by the end and ten years has passed since. It would be nice if they'd revisit it for the December 2012 date, but I don't think that's very feasible.

[Flyboy]

I love the idea of more X-Files.. but can it be pulled off?

The last film wasn't bad, but it was an average MOTW episode with more time and a bigger budget. On the other hand.. you can't drag up the old mythology again because it was already so complicated by the end and ten years has passed since. It would be nice if they'd revisit it for the December 2012 date, but I don't think that's very feasible.

Actually... when it boiled down to it... the mythology was VERY simple.

The most complicated element was in fact the life-cycle of the Greys, because they contradicted themselves and offered two seperate explanations. Either you believe Well Manicured Man - that the Greys are a natural part of the life cycle of the black oil. Or, Marita Coverubias, that the black oil has infected most every life form in the universe. Including the greys, bar the Faceless Aliens...

There are inconsistencies on both side, but it can be matched up.

Beyond that... the invasion is coming in 2012 the Consortium pretended to work with the aliens, in order to stop them.

[Galileo_Galilee]

I can tell you this is one movie that would never be aired by the CW. They're just too old, and doesn't have the right metrosexual look.

[Flyboy]

I can tell you this is one movie that would never be aired by the CW. They're just too old, and doesn't have the right metrosexual look.

Hush your mouth!

Gillian Anderson is still as foxy as ever!

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[KEK]

It's not so much that the latest film was bad, it just seemed like a really... almost 'trivial' plot considering the fact that they were bringing it back after so long. I expected it to be much more on an epic event than what was basically just a run-of-the-mill X-Files type story.

[Galileo_Galilee]

Hush your mouth!

Gillian Anderson is still as foxy as ever!

johnny_english_2_anderson.jpg

Oh PSHAW!

That's just a clone. With a lot of reconstructive surgery.