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December 01, 2003
Duchovny: X-Files Movie Sequel



The X-Files star David Duchovny, writing as a guest reviewer for the Razor gaming Web site, said that a second X-Files movie is in the works, with shooting to begin possibly next year.

Duchovny also voices Mulder in the upcoming PlayStation 2/Xbox video game The X-Files: Resist or Serve, with his longtime co-star, Gillian Anderson, voicing Scully.

"I'm proud of The X-Files, and I'm very pleased to see how the video game will help extend the life of the series," Duchovny wrote. "We're also working to put together the next X-Files movie. I'd imagine we'd get into shooting in the next year or so, depending on when the script is written."

In the meantime, Duchovny said, the new video game title is the next best thing. "I think people will like the game as much as the show, because we all enjoy mysteries where everyone thinks that there's just one final answer that'll be uncovered at the end," he said. "Plus, games are an acting challenge for their favorite stars, who want to be tools for the people shaping the product. With TV and movies, actors have more control over the performance." The X-Files: Resist or Serve will be available Feb. 18, 2004, with a suggested retail price of $49.99
Posted by Alex Zander at December 1, 2003 05:27 PM

Yupeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

Quote from: David Duchovny"I'm proud of The X-Files, and I'm very pleased to see how the video game will help extend the life of the series my career,"

coffebeetle is coming through with the avatars

i would like to think my choices might have helped guide him

Quote from: Bankycoffebeetle is coming through with the avatars

i would like to think my choices might have helped guide him

....nah it was GT's... :wink:

Didn't Duchovny leave the series because he was tired of the character of Mulder and being only identified with that?

"X-Files 2" Gone Missing?

That most legendary of cult shows which crossed into mainstream hit territory before living long past its expiration date has always talked about getting another shot at the big screen. Now, over five years since their first film outing, that future is looking dim.

Entertainment Rewired recently wrote up a column on the film's potential and placed a few calls to key players who would be involved to find out what's going on - the results were not good:

"I put in a call to 1013 Productions, Chris Carter's production company, on Friday. Turns out, Chris Carter and 1013 have moved out of the FOX lot permanently, meaning that they are no longer working together. Does this mean that FOX and Carter have fulfilled their creative contract with one another, made back in 1999? Apparently.

Millennium, The Lone Gunmen and that other sci-fi virtual reality show which shall not be named here were all cancelled. And X-Files' ratings dropped significantly during its last season due to the absence of David Duchovny. The final episode, however, drew in about 13 million viewers. Back during X-Files' heyday, that would have been a disappointment, but considering just how many fans left after season eight, it's a surprise it broke the top 30 in the Nielsen ratings.

Nevertheless, I put in a call to Chris Carter's agent's office, and they were not currently aware of any activity with the project. However, I was assured that I would get back to after they would pursue a stronger answer, hopefully from Mr. Carter himself. Mr. Carter, if you're there, hash out a script already or at least tell us what's going on with it!".

I knew it was too good to be true.

there's been better ideas.

Duchovny Says "X-Files 2" Happening
Source: Dark Horizons

While promoting his comedic turn in the upcoming "Connie and Carla", co-star David Duchovny was asked whether the much-rumoured "X-Files" movie is likely to happen, and to everyone's surprise, he gave a resoundingly positive response.

"It's definiely happening", the actor said. "Chris has a great idea for the new movie and I expect we'll be able to begin shooting in the next year or so."

Asked whether he expects Mulder to develop in the film, the actor said "I hope not. I was really fighting against that in the final years of the show and I think the whole point. I think we're going to be introducing a new character in the film which will allow us to cast a major star, male or female, who will want to be part of an exciting supernatural thriller. I think the new movie will appeal to both our core fans and a broad audience. I'm very excited about it."

Chris Carter Says X-Files 2 Talks in Progress
Source: Variety, Teletext

Variety talked to The X-Files creator Chris Carter who says that Special Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Special Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) might soon reunite on the big screen for a sequel to 1998's The X-Files: Fight the Future, which collected $189 million at the worldwide box office.

"Frank (Spotnitz) and I have worked out a story, and there's a negotiation with (Fox) going on," he said, adding he's also in development on two other potential features.

Carter and Spotnitz both worked on the first film's story. This latest bit comes after recent news from UK's Teletext which spoke to David Duchovny about the possibility of a second film.

"We're all on the same page," Duchovny said. "Gillian Anderson wants to do it, I want to do it, Chris Carter, who would write and produce the film, wants to do it and I believe Fox the studio wants to do it. When you have the four major players in the enterprise wanting to do it, it will happen. It's just a matter of when. I hope it happens within the next year."

The 43-year-old star quit the TV show before it was cancelled, but said he was keen to play Mulder again. "I think it would be fun at this point, a few years removed, to get back into it and do it."

Chris Carter tells official X-Files fan club new movie is imminent!

Chris Carter seems more ready than ever to do an X-Files movie. In an exclusive interview with The X-Files Official Fan Club, he said that things are indeed moving forward on a big-screen version of our favorite series. "I just had breakfast with David [Duchovny] this morning," he revealed. "I'm seeing Gillian [Anderson] in the next few days. Frank Spotnitz and I have cooked up an idea. Twentieth Century Fox wants to do it. It's just a matter of getting the deals done." We'll have more on next The X-Files movie in the months to come!

Source: The X-Philes (Official X-Files Newsletter)  :-D geek

Carter leading 'Investigation' at Par

"The X-Files" creator Chris Carter is set to direct the big-screen adaptation of British author Philip Kerr's "A Philosophical Investigation" for Paramount Pictures. Mace Neufeld, who has owned the rights to the novel for close to a decade, is producing with Carter and "X-Files" collaborator Frank Spotnitz. Carter and Spotnitz also will adapt the thriller. Brian Witten is overseeing for Paramount, with Kel Symons overseeing for Mace Neufeld Prods. "The property was brought to me while (I was) under contract to Paramount," Neufeld said. "It is one of my passion projects, and they generally take a long time to get off the ground. (Paramount chief) Sherry Lansing brought up the idea of Chris Carter. I thought it was a great idea. I love 'The X-Files.' We had an exciting dinner discussing it. We will be seeing a script shortly. I'm a big fan of Chris and Frank and am very enthusiastic about the project. There is a great role for a leading woman."

David Duchovny Talks X-Files
New films are in the works!
 
After the success of the 1998 feature X-Files: Fight the Future, many expected that creator Chris Carter and stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson would bank on that success for an immediate follow-up. Nearly seven years have passed with little development and, for all intents and purposes, the chance for X-Files fans to see the stories continue appeared slim at best.

In the past couple of years, talk has again come up of another feature film, with Duchovny himself even mentioning earlier this year that it might be happening. Today, during IGN FilmForce's interview with David Duchovny, he all but confirmed a return to the series, possibly as early as next year. "Well, there's no script, but Chris tells me it's like early next year. I mean, you know, the guy wrote 150 of them. He could have a script by the end of the day. The fact that there's no script or treatment is not dissuasive, to use an X-File word. I would imagine, since the three major parties are willing; Chris, myself and Gillian, I know it will happen and I would imagine it will happen early next year. It's just a matter of everybody getting their needs met I guess."

When asked whether this film will tie up many of the questions still left to ponder by the show and film, Duchovny immediately responded with a definitive no. "No, that's why it's a franchise. That's why you've got to make three or four of them before we all get too laughably old to do those roles."

When asked whether Doggett, the character played by Robert Patrick after Duchovny left the show, might return in the next movie, Duchovny has no clear answer. "That's not up to me. I think if Doggett, if that's part of the story, for sure. Doggett's an interesting character within the X-Files universe. It's always the story that mandates the character's involvement in the X-Files, whose issue is being provoked by this case, whether it's Scully religiosity or Mulder's sister, that kind of thing."

Fans of The X-Files will be thrilled to learn that this film is not planned as a final installment for the series, but rather as the first of as many as three to four more new films. "No, I don't think there's plans. I think it's a standalone. I don't think it will even address [ending the series]. I think, by the by, it will address, but I think mostly, my feeling is it will be, and I don't know because I am not writing it, is it will be one of the great standalone episodes. It's a case, more like a Silence of the Lambs, you know, standalone movie and not one of the mythology movies."

The success and longevity of the X-Files storylines has transcended any expectations those involved, including Duchovny, could have ever predicted. "What I take away from that show more than the popularity and the influences is the sheer quality of the show when I hold it up against any other television show in the history of television. The production values, the storytelling, the frame that can hold from comedy to thriller to horror, there's just no other show like it and I don't see another show coming along because they only make, they're making TV cheaper and cheaper and that stuff has gotten more expensive. The current taste for what I call unscripted shows, I don't call them reality because I don't think they have anything to do with that, but they are unscripted apparently, they're cheap."

Before he left the room, Duchovny was asked what he considered to be the ultimate season of the show, perhaps as a starter for the uninitiated to pick up on DVD. "The best year for me? I think six. I just think it had the gambit from humor to horror to thrillers. I just think we did everything that year."

X-Files 2 Negotiations Wrap This Week Says Duchovny!       
Source: IESB

The idea for a second X-Files film has been in the works for a long time. The IESB attended the TV Set press day today and spoke with David Duchovny about just that!

Back in 2005 Duchovny told IGN, "According to USA Today, Duchovny told reporters at the recent 10th Annual Critics' Choice Awards that he expected to shoot X-Files 2 some time this year or in early 2006. Elaborating on the project, the actor said it would not involve the alien conspiracy storyline that helped make the television series so popular. Instead, he stated, it would be a standalone supernatural horror film."

Well we know it obviously didn't happen, but things never happen quickly in Hollywood.

Duchovny spoke about it briefly to the IESB today while promoting TV Set.

Duchovny says X-Files fans will have their second film after all! He revealed to the IESB that they were in final negotiations for the second X-Files film and should wrap this week. Plans are to start shooting in '08 or sooner!

If negotiations get nailed down this week as planned, it looks like he will once again fill the shoes of our favorite Special Agent, Fox Mulder.

2nd 'X-Files' pic is close
Source: Hollywood Reporter

The "X-Files" film sequel is heating up.

Co-star David Duchovny indicated Saturday during the Television Critics Assn. press tour at the Beverly Hilton 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, 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 1993-2002.

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 Aug. 13.

Also during the Showtime session, Duchovny's co-star Evan Handler evaded a question about whether he would be reprising his role as the husband to Kristin Davis' character in the big-screen adaptation of another TV series, HBO's "Sex and the City."

"If I would have been approached (about reprising the role), I know I would have been asked to not to say that I had been approached," he said.

From 'The Independent':

"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. By Ian Burrell
Published: 18 July 2007
When Chris Carter, the originator of the The X Files, first sat down with executives from 20th Century Fox to propose his idea for what was to become one of the greatest cult shows in modern television, Bill Clinton was a fresh face in the White House and promising to make the world a better place. But Carter told the suits from Fox that what he had in mind was not to put the smile back on the faces of Americans but rather to frighten them out of their wits. "There's nothing scary on network television any more. Let's do a scary show," he told them. And so began a process by which The X Files combined themes such as conspiracy theory, government cover-up, biological terror and decapitation to captivate a global following for almost a decade.

The stars of the show, FBI Agents Dana Scully (played by Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), became Hollywood stars and the series spawned its own feature film, but it seemed that The X Files phenomenon had finally been undone when real-life events left television audiences feeling that they had been scared quite enough already, thank you. Writers working on the ninth and final season of the show in 2002, admitted that they were finding it difficult to compile scripts, compatible with the show's traditional themes, that audiences were able to stomach in the wake of the World Trade Centre attacks in September 2001.

Yet, as one should perhaps expect of a programme that dabbled so much in the realms of science fiction, The X Files (catchlines: "The Truth is Out There" and "Trust No One"), is about to come back to life. Following a succession of false alarms, in which Carter, Anderson and Duchovny have expressed their desire for returning Mulder and Scully back into the line of duty, it seems a second movie is really going to happen after all.

Duchovny, 46, spoke to a small group of journalists of the American Television Critics Association at the weekend and confided that work on the film is due to start in November. "Gillian is on board and I'm on board. It's November for a summer release," he said. "I've been talking to Chris and he's been giving me some progress reports. He actually called yesterday and said: 'Next week you should have something to read'."

In spite of these comments, the legions of fans of the show, collectively known as X-Philes, could be excused for treating them with the sort of scepticism normally attributed to Agent Scully, due to the fact that Duchovny has been chomping at the bit to get back in front of the cameras for more than three years and has repeatedly made that known, only for the plans to be scuppered, largely due to a lawsuit which Carter slapped on Fox in 2005 following a dispute over the allocation of profits from the show.

Duchovny has struggled to find work to match the thrill of playing Agent Mulder. He played a hand model in the film Zoolander in 2001, directed a film called House D in 2005, which received poor reviews, and last year took some unglamorous if well-paid work doing Pedigree Petfood commercials.

But now The X Files legal wrangles have now been resolved and speaking to The Independent last night from a film festival in Italy, Anderson confirmed that she was set to begin filming sometime between October and January. "The script is imminent and we are meant to start doing it by the end of next year and beginning of this year," she said. "I have been for it from the beginning and I have been positive about it from the beginning."

The Chicago-born actress, who spent her childhood in Crouch End, north London, and still speaks with an English accent, won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her performances as Agent Scully and has gone on to further success in film and television since The X Files went off the air. She won a Bafta for her performance as Lady Dedlock in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House and has recently appeared in a succession of British films, A Cock and Bull Story, The Last King of Scotland and Straightheads. She is currently working on the film version of British journalist Toby Young's book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, which is being shot in London.

Two more films, one called The Smell of Apples, which is due to be made in South Africa and a German co-production called Helen are also in the offing, although her availability might be compromised by the new X Files project.

None the less, she said, the chance to play Scully again is irresistible. "It was not something I longed for on a regular basis but as soon as we start talking about doing it again I get very excited. There's always a bit of melancholy about it because of the amazing memories of the experience. It was a very intense period in all our lives and the thought that we are all going to come together again to do it - and possibly in Vancouver where it all started - is very exciting. A lot has happened in the past few years but we are excited by each other's company and I think it will be loads of fun actually."

Carter, 50, was originally advised that Anderson was not the right shape for the part of Scully but was determined that she was by far the best candidate. He set up Ten Thirteen Productions, named after his birthday, to make the show, which he dreamt up after having become bored of working on comedy programmes.

He has made several other shows for Fox, including Millennium and Harsh Realm, both for Fox, but none of them have enjoyed anything like the same degree of success of The X Files, which ran for 201 episodes. The Lone Gunmen, a spin off from The X Files, began in 2001 and was well-received but was taken off the screen after only 13 episodes because of poor ratings.

Anderson, 37, said Carter had been working hard to make the follow-up feature film happen. "I think there were a lot of issues that have stopped it in the past but now it seems clear and they've got the contract details worked out and I guess Chris has had time to write it and all those things equal something positive," she said.

But the chances of a 10th series of the television show are precisely zero, she said. "It's just never going to happen, it's just not on the cards at all. I don't think we have the energy for it either of us."

So the X-Philes, and indeed a potential younger audience of converts to the adventures of Mulder and Scully, will have to settle for another movie. In the years since they have been away there has been more than enough threat of global terror, government skullduggery, conspiracy theories and fears of evil- minded scientists and dark forces at play to provide an appetite for their return.

"That's true and there's an opening for that," acknowledges Anderson before squashing any notion that the film will attempt to focus on such topical issues. "Except that I understand that the script is nothing to do with what some of the themes have been about in the past.

"It's going to be a very scary film about two characters who happen to be called Mulder and Scully. 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."

Some of us might think the world is a frightening enough place already but evidently The X Files team thinks the time is right to scare us a great deal more."

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: David Duchovny Says The X-Files 2 Shoots in December!
Source: MovieWeb

During a recent interview with David Duchovny for the recent DVD release of The TV Set, we asked him to tell us what he could about The X-Files 2.

Looking at at your work on The X-Files, it ran for a very long time, are there still things that you would like to see Mulder do? Is that maybe why you're interested in doing another X-Files movie?

David Duchovny: Well, I had always kind of wanted to segue the television show into a movie franchise. I never really wanted the show to die or to quit it. I got tired of the grind of making a network television show but I never tired of the character or the possibilities of the show. I would love it if we were able to expand it into a movie franchise because I love playing the character and I love the show.

Can you talk at all about The X-Files 2? Maybe where that's at or what people might expect from that?

David Duchovny: It's at... the script is written and as far as I know we're all trying to shoot in December at some point. We would all love it if we could keep it a secret and just give everybody a fresh experience of not knowing what the movie's about. I know if I was a fan of the show I would kind of be excited to be surprised.

Source: Sci Fi Wire
Oct-16-2007

It is hard to imagine that "The X-Files" ended in 2002. Will we ever see that now seemingly mythical "The X-Files 2" film? Yes, says David Duchovny who told Sci Fi Wire about his lunch reunion in LA with co-star Gillian Anderson and "X-Files" creator Chris Carter. Main item on the menu of discussion: the upcoming sequel.

"That was nice," Duchovny said. "I hadn't seen Gillian in a while. So it was like a reunion. It really was. It was more emotional than I would have though it was [going to be]. If you spend that much time with people and go through that much, there's a lot of residual feeling."

The long-awaited sequel is cautiously set for filming in December with Carter as director and is based on a script he wrote with "X-Files" writer/producer Frank Spotnitz. Both Duchovny and Anderson are expected to return in the iconic roles of Special Agent Fox Mulder and Special Agent Dana Scully.

"I want us to go out and do what the show always did best, which is really smart, scary, ultimately ambiguous stuff," Duchovny said.

The plot is top-secret, as usual with "The X-Files." It is rumored to be a "stand-alone horror film," rather than another installment of the alien conspiracy.

Cautiously set for filming in December??

Exclusive: The X-Files 2 Starts Shooting Dec. 10
Source: ComingSoon

After years of David Duchovny talking about the sequel, and almost 10 years after the first feature, 20th Century is finally ready to start production on The X-Files 2 with the actor in place to reprise his role of Special Agent Fox Mulder. Gillian Anderson is also expected to be back on board to play Special Agent Dana Scully.

Shooting is scheduled to begin on December 10 in Vancouver under the direction of series creator Chris Carter. Carter and Frank Spotnitz wrote the script.

The studio is referring to the film in casting breakdowns as "Done One."

The popular series ran on Fox from 1993 to 2002. Rob Bowman directed the first feature, which hit theaters on June 19, 1998.

YEAH!!!!!  :bravo:

I've just started to introduce my wife to the show, working through one episode at a time. We're getting towards the end of season one right now, and she's really getting into it. Once we hit season 4 I'm gonna start alternating between XF and MM, then LGM once it's time. I'm totally geeking out, and loving the fact I can relive the series anew again through her.

I'm hoping for a Christmas '08 release. If that happens then 2008 has 3 huge films I'm looking forward to, what with this, Incredible Hulk, and Crystal Skull. I'm seriously looking forward to this movie. (You can probably tell since it's mainly me - other than MacGuffin of course - who has kept this thread going). Cheers MacGuffin btw!!! :yabbse-thumbup: Five years I've been waiting for this, and even though I'm going to hate myself afterwards, I'm gonna read/see every spoiler I can get my hands on!! Although Carter and co should be pretty good at keeping things underwraps like they did on the first movie.

I'm excited....

Fox sets date for 'X-Files' sequel
Scully, Mulder return to theaters on July 25
Source: Variety

The long-awaited second "X-Files" film is finally a go, with 20th Century Fox setting a July 25, 2008 release date.

Untitled project reunites "X-Files" creator Chris Carter with thesps David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, who will reprise their signature roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

Carter begins lensing in December in Vancouver from a script he co-wrote with Frank Spotnitz, a veteran scribe of the long-running "X-Files" television series, which became a worldwide hit in its 1993-2002 run on the Fox network. Spotnitz also co-wrote with Carter the screenplay for 1998 feature "X-Files."

Studio is keeping the film's logline under wraps, but stressed the pic is a stand-alone story and supernatural thriller that takes the complicated relationship between Mulder and Scully in new directions.

As of now, there are only two other titles skedded for July 25, both comedies. Sony unspools Will Ferrell-John C. Reilly starrer "Step Brothers," directed by Adam McKay, while MGM has bows untitled Ice Cube family laffer.

Bringing the "X-Files." sequel to the bigscreen was waylaid when Chris Carter brought a 2005 lawsuit against Fox over how the "X-Files" syndication profits were divvied up. Suit was later settled.

Earlier this year, the issue seemed to have been resolved, with Duchovny and Anderson both indicating the that the film was finally forward.

Released in 1998, feature film "The X-Files" grossed $187 million worldwide, including a domestic haul of $83.9 million and an international cume of more than $103 million.

 :yabbse-grin:

'X-Files' Sequel: Castmembers, Celeb Fans Want More Mulder-Scully Action, Less Black Oil
Everyone from offed villain Nicolas Lea to longtime viewer Seth Rogen has something to say about the 2008 movie.
Source: MTV

They've been screaming "We want to believe!" for years — but fans of "The X-Files" finally have something real to crow about, with news last month that the seminal TV series is making its way back to theaters in 2008.

"Finally!" is how Nicolas Lea, who played baddie Alex Krycek, reacted to the announcement. "This story had been percolating for a long time. I feel like if this movie has half the quality and integrity of the series, it will pull in not only past fans of the show, but a whole new generation of X-Philes."

His sentiment was echoed by "Deadwood" alum W. Earl Brown, who made a guest appearance during the final season of "The X-Files." "As a fan, I spent a year or so after the finale of the series keeping track on the movie's development," he said. "So, to hear that it is now actually happening is quite exciting."

Starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in their familiar roles as Special Agents Mulder and Scully, the first "X-Files" movie opened in 1998. For fans, it seems as if the sequel has been in development hell ever since then, held up because of a contentious legal battle between series creator Chris Carter and Fox. But even with a script finished for years, little is known about the actual plot of the upcoming film.

With that in mind, MTV News raided the Syndicate and even contacted the Lone Gunmen to try to get some breaking news on the upcoming movie. In the end, we had to concede that, while the truth may be out there, it's in fewer hands than a Black Oil vaccine.

"I am not one of those fans who clamor at any scrap of plot news," Brown confessed. "I've heard that it is a stand-alone plot. Outside of that, I don't want to know anything else. I like being surprised."

But even a desire for surprise didn't stop former castmembers and fans from vocalizing their sequel wishes. And for a show about conspiracies, hidden motives and powerful conflicts, they sure were unanimous in their support for a film unconnected to the show's nine-season "mytharc," which centered on Mulder's quest to discover the truth about his sister's disappearance, alien war and the mysterious substance known as Black Oil.

"I'd love to see one of their stand-alone weird episodes done as a movie," "Southland Tales" writer/director Richard Kelly insisted. "Just something really trippy that doesn't tie into the whole Black Oil thing."

Funnyman Seth Rogen agreed with that sentiment. "I was a pretty big 'X-Files' fan, [but] they kind of played the Black Oil thing into the ground," he said. "They kind of wrapped it up pretty good in the last one."

So, if not Black Oil, what do former castmembers want to see? It's not so surprising: themselves.

"I've bumped into former castmembers who are pretty choked at not being in the film," revealed Lea, whose character's long-running rivalry with Mulder made him one of the show's most popular villains. "I was a little bummed at first, but I feel like maybe Krycek was actually dead when that bullet went through his head! ... It would be nice, however, to see riotous fans hit the streets of all major cities, protesting the conspicuous absence of the missing characters."

No need to bring such force to bear for recurring character Morris Fletcher, joked his portrayer, legendary improv actor Michael McKean.

"I predict Morris will steal the movie with his dynamite cameo, shot in the Bahamas or Prague," McKean quipped.

Which characters ultimately make it in is incidental, Rogen said. Above all else, there's one final bow that needs to be tied for fans to go home happy.

"I want to see [Mulder and Scully having sex]," the "Knocked Up" star announced, alluding to the long-simmering romantic undercurrent between the show's two leads. "That's the only thing that will satisfy my Mulder and Scully jones."

Could a Mulder/Scully kiss finally be in the cards? Maybe. But according to "Circus Sideshow" master Jim Rose — who appeared in a fan-favorite ep with his fish-eating sidekick, the Enigma — if there's one thing you can learn from "The X-Files," it's to "expect the unexpected."

The truth will be revealed July 25, 2008.

Quote from: Richard Kelly
trippy

confirmation that richard kelly is an idiot.

Timothy Olyphant (Live Free Or Die Hard, Deadwood) is rumoured to have been cast in the second X-Files Movie "Done Once". There is no details on what character he might potentially be playing.

Also, the movie has a release date in Germany of July 24th (one day before the US). France is July 30th.

he will be playing the character of "bad actor" as previously seen in films like Hitman and Live Free Or Die Hard.

He'll probably go more for "bad actor" in Scream 2. You know, back to his roots.

Threesome mark spots for 'X-Files'
Source: Hollywood Reporter

NEW YORK -- The new "X-Files" movie will be packing more heat. Rapper Xzibit, Amanda Peet and Billy Connolly have signed on for director Chris Carter's next big-screen adaptation of the hit series for Fox.

Sources said Xzibit and Peet will play fellow FBI agents to David Duchovny's Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Scully in the supernatural thriller with a stand-alone story, not a sequel or continuation of the hit 1998 feature adaptation. Citing a policy of secrecy surrounding the plot line, Fox would not confirm any details regarding the three actors' roles.

Carter and Frank Spotnitz wrote the screenplay, and production is expected to begin this month in Vancouver. The film is set to hit theaters in July.

Xzibit recently was cast opposite Bruce Willis and Woody Harrelson in Oliver Stone's "Pinkville," but his schedule was freed up when that film was put on hold because of the writers strike. The recording artist, who has finished shooting "American Inquisition," is known for his role in "8 Mile" and as host and producer of MTV's "Pimp My Ride."

Peet also has signed to star opposite Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke in Brian Goodman's drama "Real Men Cry" for Yari Film Group. The "Whole Nine Yards" star can now be seen in another alien-related film, the New Line drama "Martian Child."

Scottish comedian Connolly, who received a SAG nomination for his role in 1997's "Mrs. Brown," has appeared in "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" and "The Last Samurai."

Please no.

wow, thats..... terrible

I hope you guys are just reacting to Xzibit (spell-check suggests "Kibitzed"), because Billy Connolly and Amanda Peet are both awesome.

actually i was responding to Peet.  Kibitzed doesn't bother me at all actually.

I was mainly reacting to Connolly. You gotta understand, I grew up in the UK back when he was just known as a stand-up. I've seen him dye his beard purple and dance around London naked. It felt weird just seeing him in 'Samurai'. He doesn't belong in the X-Files universe. I mean, you wouldn't put Shia LaBeouf in an Indiana Jones film would you?



Damnit. My childhood is going straight to hell.

So the three of us are upset about that story for three different reasons.  I like it.

Hey, maybe it's not too late to put Shia Labeouf in X-Files!  He could be the hotshot new FBI Assistant Director who's all up in Mulder's grill about his unorthodox methods and who wants to shut down the X-Files until he gets abducted by the (monster/alien/mutated hillbilly/escapee from rogue government science experiment) and gets his ass saved by Mulder and Scully at the last second.  And to the producers whom I'm sure are reading this: if this ends up happening, you owe me fifty bucks.  This post is time-stamped, so don't even pretend you didn't steal the idea from me.

ok so i have a person to blame if shia ruins this movie. thanks.

i was upset by xzibit because raptors always suck unless they're mos def and because the x(zibit)-files is the best show EVER.

Quote from: Hedwig on December 06, 2007, 08:04:45 PM
ok so i have a person to blame if shia ruins this movie. thanks.

As long as I get my fifty bucks, I don't care.

But anyway, the only reason people keep casting him in movies is that he's easy to write dialogue for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlSbgZCw61g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlSbgZCw61g)

Quote from: Hedwig on December 06, 2007, 08:04:45 PMi was upset by xzibit because raptors always suck unless they're mos def and because the x(zibit)-files is the best show EVER.

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First look: 'X-Files' returns to theaters, minus alien mythology
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES — The sequel is out there.

The conspiracy theories will not be.

Ten years after the first film and six years after the show went off the air, The X-Files returns to theaters with Fox Mulder, Dana Scully — and a lot riding on the bet that fans want more of the FBI's paranormal-investigating agents.

The film, which remains without a formal title, will dump the long-running "mythology" plotline — that aliens live among us and are part of a colonizing effort — that made it one of the most popular television shows in the late 1990s but ultimately drove away some viewers who found it too complex and ambiguous.

"We spent a lot of time on (the mythology) and wrapped up a lot of threads" when the show went off the air in 2002, says Chris Carter, creator of the series and director of the new movie. "We want a stand-alone movie, not a mythology conspiracy one."

That will come as welcome news to fans of the show's stand-alone episodes, which included cults, ghosts, psychics and ancient curses.

Carter refuses to divulge any plot points of the movie, but says he wanted to make the film immediately after the show ended. A contractual dispute with 20th Century Fox kept it on the shelf until the case was settled out of court.

He says the delay may turn out to be a blessing.

"There's a whole audience I want to introduce X-Files to," Carter says. "There were kids who couldn't watch it on TV because it was too scary. Now they're in college. I wanted a movie that everyone could go to."

Whether they will could be a test of the show's legacy, says Blair Butler of the G4TV network, which caters to video-game enthusiasts and science-fiction fans.

"At its strongest, it had really creepy stand-alone episodes," she says. "They turned it into a great franchise. But a lot of years have passed. We'll see if it's fallen off the radar."

She says the film could benefit from an ironic twist: the Writers Guild strike.

"I think it could be a sort comfort food for the people who loved how original the show was and aren't seeing original TV now," she says.

But Carter believes they'll be drawn by something else: the show's stars, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.

"For me, The X-Files has always been a romance," he says. "They had an intellectual romance that's very rare and restrained compared to so many relationships on TV. I think that's what appealed most to the fans. And they're back."

That's either really unflattering lighting, or Gillian Anderson got some sort of chin implant.  Either one could ruin this movie.

Duchovny will crack the case.

Supposed spoiler images of the monster from the movie here:

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ManBearPig!!!

Link to spoilerific call sheet: http://www.xfilesultimate.com/pictures/episodes/203/papers_0002.jpg (http://www.xfilesultimate.com/pictures/episodes/203/papers_0002.jpg)

Spoilerific pictures of Xzibit on set:


well, not really - quite boring actually.....




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white text explanation: in case you were wondering why sleepless whited out the following text without any context, it's a reference to whatever photos leaked before, which turned out not to be spoilers anyway. but you wouldn't know that unless you swiped the text.. which either no one or everyone was going to do, since he didn't preface it with any context.

Apparently the photos of the werewolf were leaked on purpose, and have nothing to do with the movie's storyline.

bootlegged teaser

http://www.cinematical.com/2008/02/24/first-x-files-2-trailer/

complete with loud nerd-gasms

Carter Offers X-Files Hints

Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming second movie will be a stand-alone story that represents the best of the series.

"This movie takes some of the most, I think, essential themes of The X-Files and incorporates them and puts them to the test," Carter said in a group interview at WonderCon in San Francisco on Feb. 23. "I think that for me, so much of The X-Files was about skepticism, but it was also about faith, and I think that plays a big part of this movie."

The plotline of the as-yet-unnamed sequel remains a big secret--so much so that neither Carter nor producer/writer Frank Spotnitz would confirm or deny that spy photos of a werewolf head from the set were intentionally bogus or not.

But Spotnitz, speaking alongside Carter, allowed that the sequel will be "a stand-alone, scary movie. Scary, exciting movie. But it's also very much about these characters, very personal. A romantic, I think, emotional story."

Footage from the sequel was unveiled at WonderCon and showed the character played by Billy Connolly (whom Carter would only identify as a man with really long hair) and Amanda Peet, who has been identified as an FBI special agent in charge who goes missing.

"We came up with the story about five years ago, and we liked it, and pitched it because Fox had asked us to come up with something," Carter said. Protracted negotiations and legal "entanglements" delayed the sequel's start, he added. "So when we got the call from Fox that said, 'Make this movie, it's either now or never,' we said, 'OK, let's dust off that old story.' And that's what we did. We dusted off that old story, and we saw that it needed work. So we got back to work on it."

The sequel mirrors the passage of real time since the end of Fox's The X-Files TV show. "The truth is, after all that time, Mulder and Scully were different people, and we were different people, so the 'X-File' we came up with five years ago is still the X-File in the movie, but their personal lives--the state of their relationship, all those things--have changed over time, and that was kind of interesting," Spotnitz said. "To not only think about them after all this time, but, really, us as writers and what mattered to us and what we wanted to say in this movie [has also changed]." The X-Files sequel is still in production in Vancouver, Canada, with an eye to a July 25 release.

Filming of The X-Files sequel wraps
Creator Chris Carter, star David Duchovny thank city after secret-filled, three-month shoot
Source: The National Post

Goodbye, and thanks for all the aliens.

The cast and crew of the still-untitled X-Files feature film sequel wrapped up work in Vancouver with a news conference Wednesday, a brief lifting of a curtain of secrecy that the production has maintained through three months of filming.

"We've had lots of paparazzi," said writer-director Chris Carter. "In Langley a couple of days ago a black SUV pulled up on the side of the road and there was a long lens pointed at us."

The next day, pictures of stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, locked in a full-on kiss as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, appeared on Internet fansites alongside breathless speculation about the characters' are-they-or-aren't-they romance.

"We staged that," Mr. Duchovny told reporters at the Sutton Place Hotel, where media were informed Anderson would not attend due to illness.

"It's been a two-way street," says Mr. Carter of the prying eyes. "To tell you the truth, I would like to make the movie secretly and put it out there on July 25, have everybody get a gift they could open."

Mr. Duchovny finished work late the night before and was catching a plane to Los Angeles yesterday. The rest of the crew were to finish by week's end. The movie is a stand-alone story unconnected to the series' ongoing conspiracy thread, but beyond that they're not saying much.

"We're not doing an exercise in nostalgia to appeal to the fans of the show," said co-writer and producer Frank Spotnitz. "We saw this as an opportunity to introduce the characters to people who may have been too young . . . It has a reason for being, even if there'd never been a television show before."

Mr. Carter said their secrecy extended to the fluorescent-pink signs film productions use to direct crew to locations. Their signs read "Done One Productions."

The original series filmed for five years in Vancouver starting in 1993 and became a big hit for the Fox network, in turn boosting Vancouver's filmmaking profile.

"It would please me to no end to think that we were helpful to Vancouver, because this was the perfect city to film this particular show in," Mr. Duchovny said. "When we came here, we barely knew what we were doing, and as we got better, the crews grew with us."

The show moved production to Los Angeles after the fifth season and continued there for four more years. A 1998 feature film also shot in L.A.

But cast and crew kept their ties to Vancouver -- Mr. Carter still has a home in the city and Mr. Duchovny has filmed two movies here since The X-Files headed south.

Co-writer mr. Spotnitz said the new script was written specifically for locations in Vancouver and Pemberton, where they filmed for three weeks. As with the series, the B.C. locations stand in for places in the U.S. The producers showed reporters a trailer for the new movie with Ms. Anderson, Mr. Duchovny and shaggy co-star Billy Connolly searching a snowy field with dogs and sticks for some unspecified monster.

The new story picks up with the main characters in real time, six years after the events of the series. Mr. Duchovny, who left the series the year before it wrapped, said he always wanted The X-Files to become a feature franchise.

"This is a great, flawed, questing hero -- there's always more stories for that person to be involved in," said the actor, who now stars in another TV series, the dysfunctional-sex comedy Californication.

He brought his children with actress wife Tea Leoni to stay in Whistler during this latest working trip.

"I do consider Vancouver one of the three cities I've lived in in my my life," Mr. Duchovny said. "It is a home away from home."

Crappy trailer link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMgJmjAxMSE

Carter Offers X-Files Spoiler
Source: SciFi Wire

Chris Carter, who co-wrote and directed the upcoming X-Files sequel film, offered fans a few tantalizing spoilers for the movie, while his writing partner, Frank Spotnitz, said it would remain true to the show's mythology even though it is a stand-alone story.

In a panel at the William S. Paley Television Festival in Hollywood on March 26, Carter told fans that they will learn bit about what happened to William, the baby of Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson), who was given up for adoption in the show's ninth and final season. "It will not go unconsidered in the movie," Carter said.

Carter also revealed why the sequel still does not have a title. "I can't tell you [what it is]," Carter said in response to a question. "Because I don't know, really. I know what I want it to be, but Fox has ideas of their own. And I know what it should be."

Spotnitz said that the movie will pick up the story of Mulder and Scully six years after the events in the show's finale, which aired in 2002. "In the movie, we wanted it to work for non-fans as well as fans," Spotnitz said. "But we were determined for the fans to honor all the work that these guys did on the series and all the love that people had for the show over the years. And so I think you'll see that, while this not a mythology movie, it's true to everything that's come before. It's true to Mulder and Scully, who they are, where they would be at this point in their lives and all of the experiences that they've had."

Neither Carter nor Spotnitz would offer many details about the sequel's storyline. But Carter admitted it derives some its story from the idea the duo had for a sequel movie to be shot immediately after the series ended.

"It's the story we wanted to do," Carter said, adding: "We went to the length of working out the story [in 2002]. And then there was this lawsuit that got in the way. And years went by. ... [Finally,] I got a call from my lawyers: 'The lawsuit's been resolved.' 'Great!' And then the phone is ringing. Fox is like, 'Let's make a movie!' 'Great!'"

That was last year. When Carter went to Spotnitz to find the index cards with the original sequel story idea, they had disappeared, Carter said. "And it was the best thing that could have happened," he said. "Because I think that the story that we came up with now, the movie we just did, is superior to the story that we had. And it made us work harder."

Carter said that the production wrapped principal photography on the sequel about 10 days ago in Vancouver, Canada. The movie opens July 25.

Carter also revealed that he has mulled a movie based on his other TV series, Millennium, which starred Lance Henriksen. "We've talked about that over the years," he said. "Lance would love to do it. I don't know if it would ever get done. It's a long shot. It would be fun. I have ideas about how to do it."

newer bootlegged teaser

edit: damn, removed already

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'X-Files' fans get a taste of the 2008 sequel
Creator Chris Carter isn't forthcoming with any plot details for X-Philes fans who filled the Cinerama Dome.
By Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times

You must remember this: A kiss is just a kiss -- unless, that is, it's a kiss between paranormal investigators Fox Mulder and Dana Scully projected larger than life on the giant screen of the Cinerama Dome.

That kiss -- a highlight from "The X-Files" -- became a lightning bolt that sparked squeals of delight from many jammed into the historic theater for a retrospective tribute to the Fox drama, which centered on the adventures of two FBI agents exploring the supernatural and the unexplainable. The series, which starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, ended in 2002 after nine seasons.

Mulder and Scully -- or rather, Duchovny and Anderson -- were not present during the fete Wednesday night, part of the 25th annual William S. Paley Television Festival sponsored by the Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television & Radio). But that didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the so-called X-Philes, sitting in rapt attention while series creator Chris Carter, executive producer Frank Spotnitz and other writers and directors from the series unveiled some of the mysteries behind the monsters, strange doings and ominous atmosphere that distinguished the show.

Giving the event an extra jolt was a look at the trailer for the "X-Files" movie that comes out July 25. The rapid-fire preview gave few clues to the plot or characters, except that Mulder and Scully, who went from platonic partners to a more romantic level in the later seasons, still call each other Mulder and Scully (apparently intimacy did not put them on a first-name basis). There is a lot of running and loud music, snow and, of course, the ghostly six-note whistle that was the core of the show's theme song.

The film, a sequel of sorts to the first "X-Files" movie that came out in 1998, doesn't even have a title. "I know what the title should be," quipped Carter, noting that Fox may have other ideas. The audience was so juiced by the trailer that it was shown twice.

In development in various degrees since the show ended, the movie will take up six years after the conclusion of the series, Carter said, and attempts to honor longtime fans while reaching out to those unfamiliar with the show. He declined to specify the nature of the relationship between Mulder and Scully when the movie starts.

"It's a stand-alone movie, but it's not negligent or insensitive to the fact that there is a history there, and there has been a passage of time with Mulder and Scully," Carter said.

Still, much of the focus of the event was on the past. Also appearing on the panel were actors Mitch Pileggi, who played FBI Asst. Director Walter Skinner; Nicholas Lea, who played Agent Alex Krycek, and Dean Hagland, one of the Lone Gunmen who helped Mulder and Scully and were the stars of their own short-lived spinoff.

"It's just nice to see how well the show is remembered," Spotnitz said. Carter, who periodically took out a camera to take pictures of the adoring throng, added that he "never had a good sense of how popular the show was because I was too busy trying to make deadlines."

At its height, "The X-Files" was not merely a hit but also a phenomenon that helped establish Fox as a credible network. Its influence is evident in shows such as "Lost" and "Heroes." It made stars of Duchovny and Anderson.

Although the series featured more than its share of alien stories, monsters and twisted government conspiracies, the relationship between the agents registered a humanity and humor that scored with a broad viewership, particularly women. Females made up a large portion of the audience Wednesday.

After the series ended, Carter said he took a long break and even avoided watching old episodes. He said the series was "all-consuming, and getting away from it gave me a healthy perspective on life. At the end, I found my wife again."

He also pursued other interests, including getting a pilot's license.

"I challenged myself artistically, physically and intellectually. It was really great."

X-Files Folks Offer Hints
Carter and Spotnitz on Mulder and Scully's return.

At the recent Paley Festival X-Files reunion/tribute, I had the chance to speak one on one with both Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz about the upcoming new X-Files sequel. Carter, who wrote and directed the upcoming film, said that reuniting to make the film "was strange, but it was actually as natural as can be." Co-writer Spotnitz added, "It's amazing. I've just come off filming the movie for the last three months. To revisit characters who were gone is such a unique opportunity in Hollywood – to have a chance to come back to people like this."

It's known that the film is a stand-alone story, not tying into the overreaching mythology stories the series also did. Carter explained that with the new film "We knew we wanted to do something that wasn't a mythology episode. We'd kind of wrapped up the mythology, to a large extent, in the series. So I think, especially coming back a number of years later, the best thing to do would be to reintroduce The X-Files to its core audience, but also maybe introduce it to a lot of people who haven't had a chance to see it before, who were maybe too young to see it before. I talk to college kids now who were too young fifteen years ago [when the series began], and if you're 22 years old and in college, you were just a kid. So I think there are lots of kids who didn't see it. "

Of course, the big question is if the film isn't about the alien/government conspiracy plotline, what is it about? When I asked Carter if he could tell us about the plot, he replied "I can't, really, because nobody really wants to know. The truth is everybody wants to go and have a great experience. They want to be surprised and they want to be scared and if the cat gets out of the bag, there's no putting it back in."

While still not offering specifics, Spotnitz did tell us this about the film: "It's scary. It's about Mulder and Scully, very much. It's about them and their relationship and who they are and it's a personal and emotional movie too, in a way that the series rarely could be, because we're not doing 24 episodes - we're just doing this one standalone movie. And it's designed to reward fans. It certainly touches upon things that fans alone will appreciate. But [it's also designed] to work for people who never saw The X-Files - who were too young. That's what's most exciting, honestly, is the chance to introduce these characters to a new generation."

The show ended with Mulder and Scully's legal status in a highly problematic place, and Spotnitz promised that would not be ignored in the film. "We had to and we wanted to address everything that a fan would say 'Well, what about that?' I think we've done that without excluding anybody who never saw the show," Spotnitz explained, adding, "If you remember, in the first movie there was a scene in a bar where Mulder sort of drunkenly explains who he is. We've done it in a very different way this time around, but I think we've managed to make it work both for people who are familiar and who are unfamiliar."

There are three actors new to the X-Files franchise who are said to have notable roles in the film, including Amanda Peet, rapper Xzibit and Scottish comedian Billy Connolly. Spotnitz discussed each of these actors, explaining "Amanda Peet is an FBI agent, as is Xzibit. In Amanda Peet, we were looking for somebody who was Scully-like in a way – that intelligence, that intensity, that authority that Gillian Anderson naturally commands, so Amanda we thought, especially after seeing her in Studio 60 on television, we thought she was great for this role. Xzibit was just a discovery for us. We knew his music, but we didn't realize what a great actor he was. He's really fantastic. He's another FBI agent. I don't think you would picture him as an FBI agent normally. But he's really quite good."

Spotnitz continued, "Billy Connolly was the one person we had in mind before we wrote. We'd been fans of his... he's a very well known comedian in the UK, but we just love him as a dramatic actor. He'd done this movie Mrs. Brown, maybe ten years ago. This is not a funny role at all – I don't think there's a single laugh. It's a very dramatic, creepy role, central to the movie, and we wrote it for him and were able to get him. That was a dream come true for us."

So might this be the beginning of a new series of X-Files movies? When asked that question, Spotnitz replied "Hopefully! That would be nice. We had such a good time doing it, it would be nice to keep going."

`X-Files' movie title is out there: `I Want to Believe'

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title.

The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be called "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," Chris Carter, the series' creator and the movie's director and co-writer, told The Associated Press.

Distributor 20th Century Fox signed off on the title Wednesday.

The title is a familiar phrase for fans of the series that starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents chasing after aliens and supernatural happenings. "I Want to Believe" was the slogan on a poster Duchovny's UFO-obsessed agent Fox Mulder had hanging in the cluttered basement office where he and Anderson's Dana Scully worked.

"It's a natural title," Carter said in a telephone interview Tuesday during a break from editing the film. "It's a story that involves the difficulties in mediating faith and science. `I Want to Believe.' It really does suggest Mulder's struggle with his faith."

"I Want to Believe" comes 10 years after the first film and six years after the finale of the series, whose opening credits for much of its nine-year run featured the catch-phrase "the truth is out there."

Due in theaters July 25, the movie will not deal with aliens or the intricate mythology about interaction between humans and extraterrestrials that the show built up over the years, Carter said.

Instead, it casts Mulder and Scully into a stand-alone, earth-bound story aimed at both serious "X-Files" fans and newcomers, he said.

"It has struck me over the last several years talking to college-age kids that a lot of them really don't know the show or haven't seen it," Carter said. "If you're 20 years old now, the show started when you were 4. It was probably too scary for you or your parents wouldn't let you watch it. So there's a whole new audience that might have liked the show. This was made to, I would call it, satisfy everyone."

Hardcore fans need not worry that the movie will be going back to square one, though, Carter said. The movie will be true to the spirit of the show and everything Mulder and Scully went through, he said.

"The reason we're even making the movie is for the rabid fans, so we don't want to insult them by having to take them back through the concept again," Carter said.

Carter said he settled on "I Want to Believe" from the time he and co-writer Frank Spotnitz started on the screenplay. It took so long to go public with it because studio executives wanted to make sure it was a marketable title, he said.

The filmmakers have kept the story tightly under wraps to prevent plot spoilers from leaking on the Internet, a phenomenon that barely existed when the first movie came out in 1998.

"We went to almost comical lengths to keep the story a secret," Carter said. "That included allowing only the key crew members to read the script, and they had to read it in a room that had video cameras trained on them. It was a new experience."

Well that's real original  :doh:

New Trailer here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT2_uDBEsL0)

terrible trailer. i was excited about the film BEFORE i watched it.

New Trailer here. (http://movies.yahoo.com/summer-movies/X-Files-I-Want-to-Believe/1809953361/trailers/140/939)

Now that's a trailer.

Still doesn't look like a serious contender to standard summer fare though. They should have released this later in the year for it to have performed better. I still really looking forward to this, and will be there opening day.

Worst comes to worst, it's not going to be as big a disappointment as Indiana Jones. I think it's gonna be fun :)

Chris Carter film is covert operation
'X-Files' creator quietly working on a dark drama
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Chris Carter, the creator of "The X-Files," knows a thing or two about secrets. So it's no surprise that he has managed to keep his latest film project under wraps for so long.

Carter is in the midst of directing "Fencewalker," a dark drama starring several up-and-comers, including "The Tudors" star Natalie Dormer; David Cassidy's daughter, Katie Cassidy; rapper-turned-actor Xzibit; and Derek Magyar and Meckah Brooks.

Neither Carter's reps at ICM nor the actors' reps would confirm that the film is shooting, but the story is essentially a coming-of-age semiautobiographical character piece with no supernatural elements. (After "X-Files," Carter created the similarly spooky series "Millennium," which ran for three seasons on Fox.)

The feature is shooting in the Los Angeles area, including in Carter's hometown of Bellflower.

Carter wrote the script for what is thought to be his passion project some time ago and raised the financing himself. The film has a modest budget and no distributor at this point.

Dormer appeared in 2005's "Casanova," while Cassidy was a regular on TV's "Supernatural." Xzibit appears in Carter's upcoming "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," while Magyar is in post on the horror thriller "Train."

The veil of secrecy surrounding "Fencewalker" is not only in keeping with Carter's persona but also reminiscent of the shroud that surrounded J.J. Abrams' "Cloverfield."

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Chris Carter gets all foxy about 'The X-Files'
When facing questions about the film, the writer-director turns into one of his own mystery men.
By Gina McIntyre, Los Angeles Times

CHRIS CARTER is not the sort of guy you'd expect to produce shadowy stories about government conspiracies and alien invasions. Even as he's hard at work finishing "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" -- a new feature film based on the landmark science-fiction franchise he masterminded in the 1990s -- he's the embodiment of a relaxed California surfer, thoughtful and easygoing rather than tense and paranoid.

The deadline to deliver his cut of the film to the studio is looming, but inside a cozy Malibu residence, he's calm and deliberate, watching scenes with a critical eye and decisively directing editor Richard A. Harris to alter a particular sequence to enhance its rhythm and pacing.

The scene on the monitors is one that will later appear in trailers for the film, due to open July 25. Looking surprisingly untouched by age over the last several years, special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), her signature red tresses grown out past her shoulders, stand amid a snow-covered landscape talking with a mysterious man with shaggy gray hair played by Scottish actor Billy Connolly. Something unsettling is taking place, but what, exactly?

Carter won't comment. In fact, neither he nor Frank Spotnitz, the series' former show runner and the movie's producer, will reveal anything about the film -- except that, chronologically, it picks up six years after the series ended in 2002 and is a stand-alone story that they very much hope will please fans of the show while also appealing to a new audience. Amanda Peet and Xhibit costar, and the film is rated PG-13, with Carter making assurances that it is both "smart and scary."

But what's the nature of Mulder and Scully's relationship? "You'll have to watch the movie." Is it safe to say there are other actors from the series who appear in the film? "It's not safe to say. There may be." Are there plans for more "X-Files" features? "We'll have to do a good job on this one."

Interestingly enough, though, the policy of remaining tight-lipped goes beyond speaking to journalists. Before shooting began in December, only a handful of people -- Carter and Spotnitz, Duchovny and Anderson, a few select 20th Century Fox executives -- had laid eyes on Carter's script. And before doing so, they were required to sign nondisclosure agreements. During production, the heads of the various below-the-line departments were not given their own copies; instead, they were required to go into a locked room with a video camera if they needed to revisit something from the screenplay.

Roughly 90% of the crew never was allowed to see a copy for fear that the top-secret story line would be leaked. Even the sides, small pages with dialogue from a scene being filmed on a particular day, were collected and destroyed after that day's shooting.

Area 51 doesn't have this kind of security.

"We're very good about being paranoid," Spotnitz concedes with a laugh.

Revisiting a cultural phenomenon

IT'S A risky strategy. For a time in the mid-1990s, "The X-Files" was one of those ubiquitous pop culture flash points, collecting critical accolades and attracting a rabid fan following obsessed with the characters at the center of the show. Mulder was a man driven to believe in "extreme possibilities," with Scully acting as his foil, a medical doctor who clings to reason and science and treats her partner with respect but also a healthy dose of skepticism. Their rapport remained constant despite a sprawling story line that at various points involved alien abductions, shadowy government conspiracies, otherworldly bounty hunters and black gummy substances, clones, shape-shifters and a two-headed monster with a passion for Cher.

"The show brought a cinematic quality to episodic television that was lacking," Duchovny said recently. "The story ideas, week by week, were movie-worthy for the most part. And the style of acting was not campy. For the genre fans, who had followed many shows without those ambitions, it was less 'We love to love this show' as it was 'We love this show.' "

The series was, on any number of levels, groundbreaking, not least for spinning off a feature film, 1998's "The X-Files: Fight the Future," in the middle of its prime-time run -- the movie received largely satisfactory reviews and topped out at the U.S. box office at just more than $85 million.

But by the time "The X-Files" ended in 2002, Duchovny and Anderson had made no secret of their readiness to move on, and new special agents played by Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish essentially had taken over as the series' leads. Particularly after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, audiences seemed less interested in watching stories built on the idea that the American government is deliberately deceiving the citizenry, a theory that the declining ratings seemed to bear out.

By then, Carter was exhausted. Looking for creative and personal renewal, he decided to pursue the host of interests he'd shelved while working not just on "The X-Files" but also on such other science-fiction-tinged programs as "Millennium," "Harsh Realm" and "The Lone Gunmen," a short-lived "X-Files" spinoff based on three computer nerds who aided Mulder and Scully from time to time.

"I actually made a point of not watching the show on TV during my time away and doing as much as I could that wasn't 'X-Files' oriented," Carter says. "For me, it was 10 years of output, and I needed input."

The Bellflower native climbed mountains and spent time with "big thinkers" at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara. He also became a licensed pilot. "Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective," he says. "Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be."

What lured him back from the skies was Duchovny -- and slightly more mundane matters. In the middle of last year, right around the time the actor convinced Carter that it might be time to resurrect the franchise, a lawsuit Carter had filed against 20th Century Fox Television over payments allegedly owed to him was settled, paving the way for a second "X-Files" movie.

"I came back because David was very interested in doing this movie; I came back because Frank had a long talk with me, and he was convincing. I came back largely because there was enthusiasm," Carter offers. "And Fox called and said, 'If you want to do this movie, it's now or never.' With all that incentive, I was convinced that it wasn't going back, it was going forward, and [it was an] opportunity to actually reconsider 'The X-Files' not just for me but for the audience, for the fans."

He returned to a story idea that had emerged in 2003 and completed a script ahead of the Writers Guild of America strike last November. Additionally, Carter stepped behind the camera to direct the film, shot during the winter largely on location in Pemberton and Vancouver, Canada.

It was another in what he calls "a series of new opportunities" -- he had directed a number of episodes of the show but never a movie before. He says he's not necessarily looking to reinvent himself as a feature film director, nor is he all that concerned if people continue to associate him most closely with "The X-Files."

"It's a natural thing to be labeled," he says. "It's my big success. There's no getting away from that. If I wanted people to take me seriously as something else, it's my responsibility to go out and do something else."

Compared to those Manhattan gals

FOR THE time being, "The X-Files" is the only thing on his mind. Several weeks after an initial meeting, the movie is finished, and it is still shrouded in secrecy. In the interim, "Sex and the City" demonstrated that a much-loved television series can relaunch on the big screen after years away from the public eye and be met with the sort of enthusiastic response that virtually guarantees sequels, although it's difficult to draw too many inferences from that film's performance.

"Sex and the City" succeeded not just because interest in the characters was high but because it served as an event for female moviegoers whose interests often go overlooked in the summer months.

Audiences also had vague ideas about what actually was going to happen in the movie. "X-Files" has more competition, especially with the moody, brainy "The Dark Knight" opening one week before its release and going after the same core group of older men. That said, the movie is creating buzz online, with fan sites devoted to the sequel carefully analyzing the trailers and hypothesizing about whether Mulder and Scully will wind up together.

Carter puts only so much stock in comparisons, preferring instead to believe that if he and the other creative principals have crafted a sufficiently compelling story, the audience, as they say, will be out there.

"I don't think people go to the movies saying, 'Oh, I liked that television show from the '90s, I'm going to like this one,' " he says. "I think they go to the movies to be entertained or to be scared or to be moved, and that's why I hope they're going to see this movie."

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Is that the British poster? It's awful.

I Want To Believe This Film Isn't Going To Suck
things are not looking so hopeful.

I Want To Make Love To David Duchovny

Minor spoilers, not really plot-related.

Since this isn't a conspiracy movie, I wasn't expecting much... and I didn't get much. It's basically a slightly below-average episode extended to feature length. The basic problem with the film is that it's sharply divided between the mystery-solving/pursuit/suspense scenes and the Mulder/Scully relationship scenes. The former being skillfully executed in true X-Files fashion with sufficient creepiness, and the latter being unimaginative, recycled, ham-handed, and utterly pointless. Nothing new develops in this movie. They could have done something great with a new X-Files movie, but I fear they've missed their chance.

Resp to JB, so it may contain spoilers


From Chris Carter's interview with avclub:

Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on July 26, 2008, 12:03:58 AM
The former being skillfully executed in true X-Files fashion with sufficient creepiness, and the latter being unimaginative, recycled, ham-handed, and utterly pointless.

Quote from: Chris CarterIt goes right back to the time we started talking about—it's really been 16 years since the show first aired. There are kids in college now who never saw The X-Files, because they were too young, or their parents didn't let them watch it. So I think you need to reintroduce the show, the idea, and the characters to a new audience. And I don't think you can do it with a mythology episode. I think it's best done with a standalone story. But we're mindful of the characters, and the history they have together, and of that mythology, and how it relates to their personal histories. So there is, I would call it, an aspect of mythology in the show only because the characters produce that mythology.

Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on July 26, 2008, 12:03:58 AM
They could have done something great with a new X-Files movie, but I fear they've missed their chance.

Quote from: Chris CarterThere were 202 episodes of The X- Files. I think it was time to finish when we finished, but I think that there's still a fan base out there. And they're the reasons for me to do it again. And also David Duchovny was anxious to do another movie, as was Gillian. And it just seemed like Fox came to us and said "now or never," so "now" was probably the best answer.

I know that doesn't exactly speak for the quality of the film, which I'll be catching ASAP, but at least some possible solutions as to why it may be lacking, or may have come off from a different angle than usual.

Thanks. That does explain it, more or less, except for the pointlessness part.

(Not that any explanation would make the movie any better, unless some mindblowing secret meaning were revealed...)

this was bad.  which is especially unfortunate when you've already invested 10 years in these characters and watching it knowing this is now the last time you will ever see them. 

watching all of these reviews surface has got to be one of the most depressing things i've ever experience as a moviegoer

how do you make a boring x files movie?!?

Quote from: modage on July 26, 2008, 09:25:55 AM
this was bad.  which is especially unfortunate when you've already invested 10 years in these characters and watching it knowing this is now the last time you will ever see them. 

That's what I mean when I say I fear they've missed their chance. I hope it's not true.

Spoilers inevitably follow:

I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed when I walked out of the cinema last night. Six years and this is what they came up with? True, I didn't know what to expect, but it certainly wasn't this...

However, now that I've had the best part of a day to think it over, I like this film more and more in retrospect. It's not the kind of film most people would imagine when they think of an X-Files movie. It was much more of an intimate movie, obviously focusing on the religious/philosophical elements which Chris Carter has always been most interested in. At the beginning of the film I was caught off-guard by the woman being attacked intercut with the FBI search team. I kept thinking there was going to be some sort of big pay off there, that the woman fended off her attackers because she had some sort of supernatural power. Or maybe both she and her attackers encountered some sort of bizarre phenomenon as she tried to flee from them. But no, that was the set up. It took me a while to accept that. I kept thinking some sort of big plot point was coming up which was going to show me what this story was about, but - probably largely because of my own expectations - I missed what was right in front of my face, as subtle as it was.

The best comparison I can give you is the episodes of the TV show 'Beyond The Sea' and 'The Field Where I Died'. Like this new film, both deal with big philosophical concepts. The "phenomenon" element of the film is the character of Father Joe, a psychic who claims to have visions associated with the case being investigated. The case itself is very mundane, and not unlike something you might see simply on CSI or the like, at least until the film's third act. Rather the case is used simply as a catalyst for Mulder and Scully to encounter Father Joe, and then to argue over whether or not his visions are indeed genuine, or whether he has some sort of connection to the case himself. And, if his visions are genuine, is he receiving them for the power of good... or something else?

One thought I had whilst watching the film was of an interview I recently read with Chris Carter. I'm not sure if it was posted on here, but I think it was in the July/August issue of Creative Screenwriting. He talked about an idea they had for the show for years, but which they never did because they couldn't figure out how to do it. The idea concerned a man who dies and goes to hell, but then he is resuscitated and brought back to life. But from then on he knows that there actually *is* a life after death, and that he is destined to go to hell. The ideas explored in this film are similarly difficult to put into a visual narrative, but in a way they are successfully dealt with, however - it's not what I expected for the first X-Files outing since the series ended.

I was curious as to what other long-standing X-Philes made of it, and wanted to hear lots of heavily-biased hype checked out a couple of message boards this morning. It seems a lot of them weren't satisfied. I imagine many of the complaints people have are similar to what other people have said on here. For a start, yes, the film is divided quite distinctly divided between "the investigation" and "Mulder and Scully's relationship" (with of course a side-line into Scully's work as a doctor which neatly and predictably ties back into the investigation). Whilst this device was probably devised to please hard-core fans of the Mulder-Scully relationship, it does seem to have backfired somewhat. Parts are too cutesy, and it takes about 30 minutes into the film before we actually realize the true nature of their current relationship. Even the fan-pleasing cameo of Skinner seems a bit off-kilter with the rest of the film. And I'm not even going to go into the post-credits sequence...

Overall, despite my initial disappointment I have decided, in retrospect that I did really like this film. At the end of the day I remain a huge fan of X-Files, and this film deserves my unconditional love far more than that over idol from my past which resurfaced earlier this year, a certain Dr. Jones. I'm going to give it another day or two to muse on this some more, at which point I'll probably write my blog on it which I'll repost here.

I look forward to what other X-Philes on these boards think.

Not a big fan of the show (not that I didn't like it, I just didn't get to see a lot, since here in Portugal it aired at about midnight when I was 11 or 12 years old and needed to get to bed) and not a fan of the movie either. The story has some good elements in it (faith, belief, etc...) but really poorly exploited. And there are scenes and little moments that were so out of place, and just took me out of it (spoilers: the picture of Bush and the x-files theme playing... now that was subtle  :ponder:). I don't know... I thought maybe real fans would love it, but that doesn't seem to be the case, and that's a shame.

Quote from: Sleepless on July 26, 2008, 06:06:37 PMI look forward to what other X-Philes on these boards think.

I think I qualify. MacGuffin is also a fan. I'd like to know what he thinks, if he has the misfortune of seeing this film. Oh, also, check out this thread (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=8232.0) for general X-Files discussion and favorite episode lists.

I suppose I should explain what kind of an X-Files fan I am. I'm not even sure if "fan" is the right word. (The only thing I've ever been a hardcore fan of, in the stereotypical sense of the word, is Magnolia.) I've seen every episode, and while I loved them enough to faithfully go through all nine seasons on DVD, I certainly didn't love all of them.

There are a few things about the X-Files that have always annoyed me, or which I've never been entirely comfortable with. These include:

1. episodes in which Mulder and Scully investigate a serial killer and must find the missing girl before she dies
2. trying to scare us with various Satanic phenomena while actually taking it seriously
3. exploring Scully's religious beliefs
4. the overt Mulder/Scully romance

I'm pretty sure most of the episodes I disliked involved one or more of these things. This movie achieved a solid 3 out of 4. Just to explain, I should expand on them.

PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD!

1. The serial killer episodes (aside from the obvious interesting ones, like Pusher) are far too formulaic for a show that was about breaking formulas. They do nothing for me. The worst thing about them was that the kidnapped person is rescued just before she's killed, which happens in this movie twice in rapid succession with Mulder and the girl in the ice bath.

2. Satanic crap only works for you if you believe in it. Which is why it doesn't work for me. And if it does work for you, you might be a sick person and probably need to get over your fear of and belief in Satan. Period. And stop watching stupid television episodes that reinforce your superstitions.

3. Scully's religious beliefs are sometimes contradicted by her rationality, which causes internal conflict. That's it. This could have been started and ended in one episode. There's not much substance there. To bring it back in a feature-length film and recycle all the old material that wasn't good in the first place is an insult to our intelligence.

4. Chris Carter once promised to never bring Mulder and Scully together in a conventional romance, insisting that their relationship was meant to stay as a quasi-professional collaboration, and that an overt romance would deflate their ongoing sexual tension that was essential to the show. I agree. And yet I somehow accepted what happened in "The Truth," probably because there was enough ambiguity. I suppose it makes sense where their relationship is today, but I'm definitely less comfortable with it after seeing this movie.

Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on July 26, 2008, 07:21:41 PM

Quote from: Sleepless on July 26, 2008, 06:06:37 PMI look forward to what other X-Philes on these boards think.

I think I qualify. MacGuffin is also a fan.

I'm a fan too, and I'm rewatching the series now, going through season one as I speak. Haven't seen season 6-9 yet....So sad that this film is getting bashed but I'm optimistic after reading Jeremy's review without the spoilers.

as a fan of the show i left the movie pretty disappointed. like jeremy blackman, a lot of the stuff that i don't like about the show (faith mostly) was central to the movie. this wouldn't have bothered me much if the movie was more entertaining but as it is, it just held my attention. i didn't care about anything in the movie - the plot, the victims, the little boy - and the only thing that kept me paying attention was my past interest in mulder and scully. movie looked really good in certain spots too.

4/10

I was not very hyped for this film, so my expectations were low, and it ended up being better than expected. However, it didn't feel entirely a part of the series. At its best, the film recaptures the relationship between Mulder and Scully, and by that, I mean their working relationship (I was one of those fans that wanted them to stay plutonic), and I liked seeing them picking up where they left off. Their scenes together were nicely written and acted; even in an argument, they felt like a real couple trying to be supportive and yet sticking with what they believe. The MacGuffin of the story left me wanting more; it didn't feel like an X-File type case, and the psychic was the only element of 'unexplained phenomena.' Not to mention that our two leads were given mainly observer roles, taking back seats to Xhibit and Peet's (both miscast) agents. I was excited with Mulder as he started to get the feeling again, and really wanted him to take more of a lead, but by that time it was too late into the film.

also what the fuck was up with the shot of g.w. bush portrait with the x-files theme?

very big fan of the show rewatching entire series right now. Just starting season 3. Haven't seen the movie yet but will in the next few days.

Actually an interesting thing I have to mention/ask as I was watching season 2 there is an episode called "Die Hand Die Verletzt" about satanists. The funny thing is there a scene where it rains frogs on murder and scully. So is this original or was this done in other shows/films as well? The only reason I think it is funny is obviously because of Magnolia.

Quote from: Weird. Oh on July 29, 2008, 05:51:51 AM
Actually an interesting thing I have to mention/ask as I was watching season 2 there is an episode called "Die Hand Die Verletzt" about satanists. The funny thing is there a scene where it rains frogs on murder and scully. So is this original or was this done in other shows/films as well? The only reason I think it is funny is obviously because of Magnolia.

I thought they might have done it on an old episode of the twilight zone, finished that episode earlier last night also...

Exclusive: Carter Already Planning X-Files 3
Show creator eyeing alien invasion story.

IGN caught up with X-Files creator Chris Carter this week to talk about I Want to Believe, and the director/writer/producer was keen on talking up the prospects of further movie instalments.

He began by saying: "We had really good fun doing this movie -- we have high hopes for it and we just want people to like it. If people do want to come and see it we'll certainly be talking about another movie."

We asked him about abandoning the shows alien-heavy mythology for Believe, and if he would return to this long-running narrative it the future.

"We love the alien storyline too, but we felt coming back this time -- when a story like this was not only true to the series but allows us to focus on Mulder and Scully more, you don't have to deal with all the complications in the alien storyline. But if there were to be more films -- and we're not at all taking it for granted that there will be -- but if there were that's something we would definitely want to get back too..."

Carter continued: "There's a date in the X-Files mythology -- 2012 -- that is very important. We'd certainly love to do something with that!"

He's referring to December 22, 2012, which is referenced in several episodes and marks the date of the alien invasion and colonisation of Earth.

Duchovny Still Believes In X-Files
Source: Sci Fi Wire

The X-Files: I Want To Believe didn't do blockbuster box office, but star David Duchovny still wants to revisit the role of former FBI agent Fox Mulder, whom he refers to as "mine." He adds that he wants to believe that The X-Files could live on in a spinoff TV series.

The movie--the second based on the long-running Fox TV series--is out now on DVD, and it is hoped it finds the audience that eluded it in movie theaters over the summer.

That includes Duchovny himself, who confessed that he never saw the film on a big screen. "It's not a special-effects movie," he says. "It kind of was coming out in a time when you expected it to be--in the summer. To me, it was more a fall movie."

Duchovny adds: "It's a beautiful-looking movie. The location, the glow of the snow and the eeriness of that part of it, I think that looks great on the big screen. Everything looks better on the big screen, but I think that, yeah, it's less of a popcorn movie than it is a fall movie, ... for lack of a better term."

Duchovny, who is undeniably an SF icon, says that he's not looking for any more fantastical roles. "I don't feel a need to score in any sci-fi movie or television show for the rest of my life," he says. "I think that we can check that one off for me. But I don't choose genres. I choose characters, so I would never rule out a science fiction movie just because it was the genre. If it had a character or a story that I thought was really interesting, I would do it."

As for The X-Files, Duchovny says, "I never thought of The X-Files as science fiction. I always thought of it as playing this character in this world. The world was recognizable to me. It wasn't The Jetsons. It was present time. You couldn't fly. You couldn't transport our bodies over a teleport and all that stuff, so it was the real world, and it didn't feel like sci-fi to me." Following is an edited version of the rest of SCI FI Wire's interview with Duchovny.

Do you suppose that the Fox Mulder character could somehow endure along the lines of a Sherlock Holmes or a James Bond? Do you think that other actors could play him, and how would you like to see him go in the future?

Duchovny: I'm sure that someone else could play him, but I'd like to play him for a little while longer. I certainly think it's a pretty good idea to try to make another X-Files-oriented show on television. I wouldn't be an actor in it, but I've always thought it was a great plan. But I would like to continue on as a movie serial. As far as what actors ... I'm not ready to go out to pasture just yet.

What is it about Mulder that keeps you coming back?

Duchovny: He's mine. I feel protective of him and of it and of all of us. It was the first real, real success of my career and will always be a cornerstone of my life in many ways, the creative endeavor it is. I feel protective of the character and of the show in many ways, and I'm proud of it. I think that it can expand and grow, and .. I find that we have bonds.

I guess Indiana Jones gets aged, but it remains the same movie even though he's aging. Bond doesn't age, and I find that a little less interesting, at least for me. I'm not just saying this because I would like to keep doing it, but I always talk to [X-Files creator] Chris [Carter] about how fascinating today it would be to take this guy from his early 30s and let's take him into his mid-50s, late 50s. Maybe nobody wants to see 60-year-old Fox Mulder, but we can grow him. We can take him through life's hardships and changes. It doesn't have to be this cartoon where nothing changes. You can actually form the flow of this movie and the expanse of this show to embrace actual passage of time and what that does to a person and relationships. To me, that's interesting as an actor and as a person. As an intellectually based character, you don't give a damn what he looks like.

Since The X-Files: I Want to Believe may not have been the huge blockbuster that everyone was hoping for, we'd like to know: What is your own measure of success for the movie?

Duchovny: I guess it's always the first time I see the movie. What's my feeling when I come out? I always felt like the subject matter of this particular movie was limiting. It was dark, and it wasn't going. I mean, it could always bust out and become something huge, but as you recall, Batman was just suffocating everything at the time. Even so, it was also a $29.9 million movie competing during the summer. It had some stuff going against it in terms of me thinking it was going to break out. I didn't think that it actually would. It was very dark. The subject matter was limiting in that way. Even though I would hope any movie I do would do the best business it can, that was never going to be a measure of this particular film.

I've only seen it one time, and I was sitting in Chris' editing room. I watched it on a little screen. I guess I missed the chance to see it on the big screen, and that's too bad, but when I left that initial screening at Chris' house, the film was pretty much almost done except for some special effects. I just felt like it was really strong and kind of a strangely moving piece of work. Still dark, and still, I thought, limited, but the way that the movie performed did not surprise me so much, and I think that if we do get a chance to do another one ... what I always really liked about the show was that it had a dark vision, but at the heart of it being driven by Mulder was this real optimism or wonder or sense of belief, and then it would kind of open out. Most of the best shows that we did would open out into real wonder at the end, if only because you didn't have an answer, which was the mystery of it, but the wonder.

Mulder's quest, to me, is a very positive one. If we get a chance to do another one, I think because in this movie Mulder kept getting reinvigorated, Mulder was in a down place for much of this film; he wasn't driving the way he drives, the way he drove everything before that. In a way, the nature of how we had to get back into the show, which was to take the guy out of his job, also deprived the movie of some optimism and wonder and enlightenment that occurs when you've got this unhinged guy trying to prove wonderful crazy things.

For those disappointed by IWTB, this might entertain you. And it's got Robert Patrick!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TDh6WdeV4