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X-FILES 2 hits as early July of next year?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I posted a story yesterday about X-FILES 2 finally going into production. Now the trades have confirmed it and added a few interesting tidbits of their own.
First and foremost they announced a July 25th release date. That's pretty damn fast considering they haven't started shooting (or have they?!?). They've also let slip that the film is a stand-alone story and, most interestingly to me, that it'll be a supernatural thriller. I always loved the more horror-driven episodes and grew pretty tired of the heavy conspiracy stuff. This sounds like more in the tradition of the episodes I loved.
What do you folks think?
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why the x-rated ads and the front page showing stories from years ago?
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woopie
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i saw no x rated ads, but last night the page went to completely different news for a while. i thought it was a new update....then it went back to this stuff.
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I'll admit, I've not WATCHED Californication, but all the previews I've seen show him looking a little bloated and bedraggled. HOWEVER, Gillian looks awesome as ever, if her recent turn in Straightheads (nice nudity on her part, BTW) is any indication. I think she actually looks better.
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now i have to deal with my scully crush again.
Dutch-oveny has been keeping his velvety vocals in shape with those puppy chow commercials anyway! :) -
i loved them too. can't wait for more x-files goodness. also, yeah the site is pretty fucked atm...
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Millennium was just so much better.
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Nov 01, 2007 8:49:49 AM CDT
I think the audience for this has moved on, that what I think
by pound sand
in other words, too late.
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Consider me there...X-files is an integral part of my science-fiction history and near and dear to my heart. And considering all involved are the ones who made the show what it was (Carter, Spotnitz, etc), it's bound to be ass kickingly delicious.
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We gave up on the show early into the fourth season, when it became seriously convoluted and pretentious.
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but until I see it with my own eyes, I won't believe it'll get made.
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Just hearing this news makes me want to dust off my old X-FILES soundtracks and sit down for a DVD marathon session. Summer of 2008 is looking pretty good, but then again, so did the summer of 2007...
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. . . or whoever his name was that hibernated, stole livers, and could squeeze through any opening. Loved those episodes. That said, I still think, at this point, this project still feels like a too-little, too-late, attempt to score some dough. Hopefully we'll get some cool news that changes my mind.
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The episode with the super strong inbreds who's the mom that lived under the bed still haunts my nightmares.
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As I recall, she was mother *and* sister to some of them.
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Then his career followed him out the door. What a jackass.
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I want to hear about the script, dammit.
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And who the hell says "Give a toss?" I mean, I know I just used it, too, but it just sounds so silly. "Give a fuck" or "Give a shit" is far less smirk inducing. But I digress... LONG LIVE X-FILES!
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this isn't good news. Yet another movie rushed to the theaters because of the strike. 2009 will be the year the studios really have a bogus excuse to crack down on file sharing, because they're going to be dropping some massive bombs and people are going to avoid the cinema like a plague, possibly for years to come.
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A lot of posts always say, in reference to The X-Files, that the "last few seasons" were the "bad ones." To quote Dwight Schrute: "FALSE." SEASON 9 was the weak link of the last few seasons. Season 7 was pretty damn good with episodes like the Scully directed one, the "X-Files Movie" one with Gary Shandling and Tea Leoni, the great season finale with Mulder's abduction, and more. Season 8 breathed new life into the show with the Hunt for Mulder arc, badass John Doggett, role-reversal for Scully, the two part premiere, that weird slug episode was creepy as hell, and the last 8 straight episodes of the season were balls to the wall crazy. Now... Season 9, I find little to defend. I always liked the new opening credits. The Dumbass episode was pretty good, the Burt Reynolds episode, the Lone Gunmen swan song, the creepily weird Brady Bunch episode with Ben Linus, and the epic, if not uneven, series finale which brought Mulder back and exposed the final date for the Alien invasion. So when we talk about "the last few seasons" let's try to be more specific. Or at the very least, share what you don't like about those seasons that makes them apparently so atrocious.
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...one of the most fucked up hours of U.S. television ever. It was bad enough when I first thought the stump woman on the trolley under the bed was a captive, but when it turned it out she was the voluntary "breeding machine" of that upstanding family, eeewwww...
Another creepy episode was the one with the fungus in the woods that would exude a hallucinatory narcotic which made its victims believe they were reliving the most wonderful times of their lives as they were being eaten alive. Brrrrrr!!!! -
Both sides of the X-Files universe, mythology episodes and monster of the week episodes. And I could be wrong on this but I believe that was the first show to do that type of storytelling which is now so prevalent in today's dramas. Pretty cool, and i know it's not going to be in there but I want a return of the sewer monster. That was a great episode. -
The Juan Ponce De Leon episode. Did not see that one coming.
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If it's a standalone story, it won't involve aliens... Then of course it's gonna be a supernatural thriller..
And when i first heard of this, i think around 4 years ago, they said it wouldn't be about the Mythology, rather 'twould be about something new.
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I loves me the X-Files! and I really like all the stand alone stuff. They did a great job on the show by mixing it up with the 'conspiracy' arc. This is the perfect direction for a 2nd X-flick!!!
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As much as I'd love to see the mythology wrapped up, their best episodes were almost always the stand-alones. The inbred family, the housing community gollum, the lake monster, god man theyre all so friggin good. I gotta watch more reruns.
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I am glad they are staying away from aliens.
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Let's hope it's a lean efficient thriller that puts the big blockbusters to shame. Is Fox trying to get back into my good books again after years of crap? First Avatar and now this...
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Those were some of my favorite things
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They've said all along they'd like to do another one and it would be a stand-alone. I say boo-urns. Unless, of course, it's awesome and I'm wrong. Until then...BOO! Advance the plot and give it the ending the finale never did.
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Star Trek went 3 seasons. 10 years later they made a movie. Audience was huge. So don't give me that "Audience has moved on" BS.
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I can't understand why EVERYONE isn't geeked for this. Quit trying to be cool and saying you're not excited, talkbackers! You know you want this like I do. I'm marking my calendar!
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Another movie?! I don't think it'd work since it's been awhile. But then again Army of darkness did take a while too following evil dead 2.
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I love this show when it did funny or scary. The myth arc episodes were a drag. The essential core relationship between a sexually stunted obsessive and an emotionally repressed sidekick is the core of the story. I can watch Gillian Anderson in anything, so I hope they get the balance right.
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we have enough CONSPIRACY in the real world already so this isnt bad news. the bad news is we still dont no the truth about 9/11.
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You guys are smoking crack if you don't think people want to see this. The quality of the writing and those characters are still superior to anything on tv right now with the exception of HBO. I would take a one off X-Files episode over that Hostel shit any day of the week. The first movie rockedand no it wasn't better than the TV show because the TV show was as good as a movie, but it was just as good and was definately bigger. Besides they got to hurry up and make these movies so we can see Mulder stop the alien invasion in summer 2012.
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This is the chance for x-files to show them how to make a truly great supernatural tale. Long live X-files.
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Nov 01, 2007 6:36:13 PM CDT
The horror angle makes business sense (SAW IV, SILENT HILL, HALL
by nohubris
...but IMHO X-Files was at its best with the nature run amok plots, such as "the brain sucking amoeba" rather than the serial killer type of horror.
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Yeah, I like resolution. If I want supernatural, I'd beg for Ghostbusters 3.
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What the fuck are you people talking about? Too late?? There was like 8 years between Terminator 1 and 2. Same with Alien and Aliens. Hell, Escape from LA came like 15 years after Escape from NY. Shit, the new Indy will be nearly 20 years after Last Crusade. Too late?? Pull you heads out of your asses, you dumb douches.
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Sorry, force of habit. I mean too Late!! I loved XFiles as much as the next person, probably more, but I just think they missed that train. The actors really came off at the end as feeling like they were too good for the show, though I'm sure they were just tired of doing it. Anyway, I'm not really that enthused about it. That may change when I see a trailer (or teaser) but as of now... MEH!
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Sorry, couldn't resist. So in what time period would this "Stand Alone" exist? During the early seasons, or later on (before Mulder disappeared and eventually was found and then fired from the FBI)? I don't think it would be current day, since the last episode, the two of them were on the run, so I doubt it would be present day.
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Sorry about the last sentance in my previous post. Should read: I don't think it would be set in the current day, since in the final episode the two of them were on the run. So unless something else happened to get them both back to the FBI, present day is out.
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I loved the more "more horror-driven episodes" as well.
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...wonderful WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONDERFUL...
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Nov 01, 2007 10:37:45 PM CDT
I would say to much time has passed but if Die Hard did it then.
by the founder
I say go for it. X files wasn't a show I watched or nor was I a fan but i did like the episodes i watched at times and I liked the movie, so if the writers can pull off an intersting concept and the trailer looks good then I'm. I really don't put much faith in any film coming from Fox, cause I think they are a studio that has to stumble on a hit. Besides after what they did to the xmen and F4 franchises I'll never forgive them.
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Great reference. My girlfriend still tells me that I ruined that song for her forever by showing her that episode. Long live The Peakcocks! A stand alone movie will be rockin as long as it's followed up next with a mythology movie. And i think it will be present day. Mulder is still going to investigate the paranormal with or without an FBI badge. He's an obsessive freak. The last episode was fucking great and I can't wait to see what these characters have been up to since 2002. And fuck supernatural, that cheap X-Files knockoff. One of the reasons X-Files worked so well was because of the great casting. Neither the agents nor the guest stars looked like metrosexual pretty boys unless it was specific to the episode and it usually meant you couldn't trust them, like Krychek, which is pretty unusual for a modern tv show.
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and if the X-Files is so irrelevant, then why are half the shows on TV today so obvioulsy derivative of the X-Files?
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I was a pretty hard-core fan back in the day, loved seasons 1-8, but year 9 pretty much ruined it for me. Specifically: Scully, who once was one of the strongest, smartest women in sci-fi, wound up crying and/or moping in almost every episode, in the name of "character development." The Mulder-Scully relationship turned into a sappy quagmire that dragged on and on. Skinner denied the Conspiracy they'd been fighting the previous 9 years--no contradiction there, huh? (Can't remember the episode name, but I do remember the intense urge to throw something at the screen when he said it.) Doggett was great and Reyes was OK, but I got the feeling the writers didn't quite know what to do with them, or how to make them unique characters instead of Moose-and-Squirrel-2.0. Cary Elwes was wasted in a largely irrelevant sub-plot. Most of the scripts, with the exceptions of "4D" and the one (sorry, forgot the name again) where Doggett saved the day through his lack of imagination, were pale retreads of concepts better executed in previous years. The "deaths" of the Lone Gunmen (still can't acknowledge it wasn't some sort of hoax) broke my heart completely. They were the most idealistic characters on the show, the true embodiments of "fighting the good fight, no matter what," and they got written off in one of the stupidest scripts I've ever seen in ANY show. (Why in the world couldn't they have just knocked the guy out and left the room? Maybe because that would have made too much sense.) The second-to-last episode was a thinly-veiled smack at their loyal audience to "wake up and get a life." And the finale... an hour and a half recapping everything I spent 9 years watching the first time around and making all the heroes look like chumps, then round it all off with some big-budget explosions and call it a day. ::sigh::
Don't get me wrong-- I absolutely adored XF back in its heyday, when it truly was one of the most brilliant sci-fi shows ever. I loved it enough to buy years and years worth of VHS and DVD boxed sets (now gathering dust) not to mention a ton of merchandise. And the concept of a monster-of-the-week movie appeals, considering the tangled mess the Conspiracy/New-Conspiracy-Lite wound up becoming. But year 9 left a really foul taste in my mouth, even years later, and I have very little interest in spending more money to watch the new movie.
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when mulder says "does that mean he could ground his own brothers?" i laughed
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even my older brother was scared of him. and hes usually laughing his head off. when we watched "the thing" we started giggling at the chest-mouth, i made a joke about heartburn.
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was pfaster a unholy monster, or just a necrophile?
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I'm actually looking forward to this. For the first six years X-Files was damn near a perfect show and a shaky three years in no way dismantles that. I'm looking forward to seeing Mulder and Scully on screen together again.
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It should take place shortly afterwards. Keep the baby and Doggett (ax Reyes) but still try and get some of that season 1-6 feel.
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