The X-Files 2 movie coming

[Dukkha]

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2779435.ece

Ex-files no longer: Partners once more
In the five years since they last struggled with the supernatural in the X Files, the careers of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have diverged: he has struggled to find good projects, she has been acclaimed. Now they are to be reunited in the roles that made them.

This could be good but I have serious doubts since the series died a painful death in the last few seasons. As long as it's only about Mulder & Scully and not the other characters introduced after the show jumped the shark in the 6th season.

[ceile]

1. Can't wait.

I wouldn't mind if Robert Patrick (Agt. Doggett) made an appearance. He was pretty good, but it really should be all about Scully and Mulder.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Doggett and Reyes (to a lesser extent) were pretty underrated.

Those last few seasons were actually pretty good. The monster of the week episodes became good again in the last two seasons (they were lame as hell in 6 and 7...like the wrestling one with Kathy Griffin, for example), and Mulder and Scully were never really that far from the show plotwise.

[Mutley]

2. I'll go see it.

I hung on to the bitter end with that show. I kept hoping it would get better again, and then they killed it. But yes, I'd definitely be willing to see what they do with the second movie.

[Hugin]

3. It would be good if they did a more 'Paranormal Plot' instead of all that...

UFO/Govt. conspiracy stuff too...

I always liked the stand alone paranormal stories better during the series.

I look forward to hearing more about it. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

5. I'm of the opposite opinion. The conspiracy episodes were epic.

But they are planning to make the movie a standalone movie like the monster of the week episodes.

[Hugin]

7. Well, I'm sure they'll try to please everybody... To do so, I suggest they...

BRING.BACK.THE.LONEGUNMEN!


Thx... That is all. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

8. That's something I can get behind,haha.

Those guys were great.

[Hugin]

9. ...

They're particularly relevant in the modern political climate, IMHO.

:thumbsup:

[stuntcat]

12. swEEEt

I wish :loveya:

[havocmom]

17. They're dead, Jim

;)

[Hugin]

22. Nobody ever really dies in the Movies...

;)

[havocmom]

18. There's a song I heard a couple times about 'the aliens all wore business suits...'

Always expected to hear it on X Files.

If the lyrics are true, good fodder for drama AND explain a lot about the world today.

Mulder was RIGHT! ;)

[BlueIris]

4. I was kind of wondering about this.

I was getting a weird vibe it might happen soon.

[stuntcat]

10. whwhwhat? :o

I used to be obsessed with X Files. The truth is so Out There :crazy:

[buddhamama]

11. i can't wait.

i miss the X-Files. :(

[Orsino]

13. Too bad I boycott Fox.

Guess I'll have to wait for a used DVD.

[crispini]

14. OMG OMG OMG!

:bounce: Now I need to get all my DVDs back from that friend that owns them so I can watch them again.

Could be good, could suck, but it would sure be nice to see M & S again. :D

[mzteris]

15. Don't forget SKINNER!!!!

the Lone Gunmen need to be there, too.

[Orrex]

16. Four things that MUST NOT be in the film, or it will suck

1. Shape-changing aliens
2. Any reference to Scully's cancer
3. Any reference to Scully's infertility/child
4. Tea Leoni

The inclusion of any of these would make the film irredeemably horrible.

[BlueIris]

19. If I see Ms. Leoni anywhere near this movie, I'm not going to see it.

Blech.

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. So you want it to just be a very long freestanding show?

[Orrex]

23. I would prefer that to Carter's other already-exhaused story arcs

Over the course of the series there was far too much build-up with far too little payoff for me to be interested in yet another two hour journey to "right back where we started from" (with apologies to Maxine Nightengale, of course).

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. Should the new film then pick up where the series left off rather than where the movie did?

[Orrex]

26. Oooh. Now that's a good question

I was initially thinking only of the series' interminable arcs, but if we picked up from the last film then it's another matter.

I guess that if we walked away with some kind of clear resolution to at least some part of something, I'd be happy.

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. I just saw the series finlae a few weeks ago. To be honest, picking up where the other movie

left off means going through everything in the show we've already seen, but to pick up where the series left off is to go on without most of the interesting minor characters who all died.

My guess is they will pick up where the other movie left off, rehash old stuff and bring back everyone.

And they will all look olllllldddddd.

[ghostsofgiants]

31. Your guess is pretty much wrong.

Asked to confirm earlier reports that the movie would be a standalone story, and not part of the larger mythology arc of the series, replied "It should be. It should be a one-off, yeah."

http://movies.ign.com/articles/805/805046p1.html

Also:
The script has not been written, but the idea is in place. "We're not going into the mythology ," Spotnitz added, saying it will be more like a stand-alone episode. "Of course, we will catch up with the characters and what is going on in their lives, but it's not about the alien conspiracy. It's not about that."

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14617

[GreenPartyVoter]

36. Glad to hear it

[Orrex]

44. I agree

And as the lovely and talented House of Kewpie wisely pointed out at dinner last night, the series went into a nosedive as soon as they tried to involve Scully and Mulder's personal lives in the arc of the X-files.

I have to concur; it was a lame gamble that yielded only lameness by focusing all subesequent conspiracies on whether or not Mulder's dad was a bastard and whether or not Scully could have kids.

The one shots, throughout the entire course of the series, were better than the arcs IMO.

[Dukkha]

39. it would be nice to pretend the "LA Years" never happened

and film the new movie back in Vancouver where they belong.

[Dukkha]

27. The worst being the Samantha Mulder story

The whole series was based upon Mulder's search to find her abducted sister and they totally crapped out on that resolution.

[Hugin]

29. Mulder had a sister?

Oh... Yeah.

:rofl:

[Dukkha]

20. it's unfortunate most of the best characters are dead

CGB Spender, Alex Krycek, Mr X, Deep Throat, The Well-Manicured Man, Jeffrey Spender, Marita Covarrubias, Jose Chung.

No one left but Skinner and The Lone Gunmen. I feel old now as the X-Files make me feel nostalgic for my care free Gen X 20's years when I eagerly anticipated a Friday night in my dirty SF flat with pizza & beer and Mulder & Scully. Ah, those were the days!

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. The Lone Gunmen are dead too

[Hugin]

28. Nobody ever really dies in the Movies...

;)

[JoDog]

34. The Lone Gunmen

Died at the end of their unsuccessful, 1 season spin-off series. The way it was done was horrible and made absolutely no sense at all.

[Dukkha]

35. that's lame

you can't kill off comic relief characters. that's just morbid.

[Orrex]

45. The series? Or their deaths?

An argument could be made either way.

But the pilot, with the remote-controlled aircraft flying into the WTC? Wild stuff!

[Fox Mulder]

38. Lone Gunmen are dead too.

[Hugin]

43. Nobody has died in the Movies since Aquaman woke up on "Dallas"...

Boy, talk about a disappointing character... I kept expecting him to use his otherworldly
powers to call together all things watery and as close as he ever got was taking his shirt
off. :eyes:

I'm thinking the only reason he was on the show was to draw an audience from the cartoon
demographic.

[WindRavenX]

32. fucking SWEET~

<--huge XFiles fangirl

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

33. We used to plan the evening around the new episodes

When it was good, it was GOOD.

I was VERY disappointed in the first flick. I hope the new one takes a lesson and presents a genuine X-Files plot.

[Fox Mulder]

37. Sweeeeeeeeeet.

[philosophie_en_rose]

40. About 5 years too late.

I liked the X-Files, though didn't watch the last few seasons. However, I would have been excited to see another X-Files movie . . . in 2002.

I see the potential for greatness, but I hope they do more with the characters than rehash the same conspiracy shit.

[ghostsofgiants]

41. Sigh...do people even read the articles when posted anymore?

"I don't think they are going to draw on any of the mythology or the conspiracy stuff, as far as I know. My understanding is that it's scary like a monster film."

Nevermind the two other links I posted on the topic above.

[philosophie_en_rose]

42. Whatever.

Scooby Doo with Mulder and Scully isn't likely to be good either. The other movie was allegedly also scary and had 'monsters,' but was also filled with obscure conspiracy.

And no. I'm not hanging on your every word. Sorry.