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Who can solve the mystery of this bizarre supporting cast in X-FILES 2?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. This bit of weird news hit early early this morning. X-FILES 2 is happening after all the years of speculation. They've added Billy Connolly, Xzibit and Amanda Peet to the cast list (also remember there's a rumor of Lance Henriksen popping up as Frank Black as well).
Hollywood Reporter says the scuttlebutt is that Xzibit and Peet will be fellow FBI agents, alongside Mulder and Scully.
Pretty badass that this is actually happening. I can't wait until the first trailer! I can hear the X-FILES theme music already...
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er whatever
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But I chose not to.
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This show is best for late-night syndication like it's predecessors(sp?) Twilight Zone and Outer Limits.
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This here mufucka Cerulean Blue, dog. Cerulean Blue POPZ!
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Sorry, but that's the best I could come up with.
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call it, Chris Carter's a fucking alcoholic; that shit is whack, yo
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http://www.filmstalker.co.uk/archives/2007/12/olyphant_in_xfiles.html
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that Olyphant shit's just a rumor at this point.
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but I was in highschool and I really don't remember that much of it anymore, when it was gone it was just... gone. It just didn't have the rewatch value in the college years. I think they may have waited too long for this sequal. I spoke to my younger brother (8 year age diff), "dude, they're making X-Files 2." I shit you not he thought it was another X-Men. Unless they pull a boat load of old fans outta hiding, I worry that this thing may come and go prety quick. It was always a hard show to jump in the middle of anyway.
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Peet and Xzibit as FBI agents? Don't you mean fucking gay?
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I predict the pivotal moment will be when Xzibit kicks that Alien Bounty Hunter guy out of the door of a building/train/aircraft. A la Busta Rhymes and Michael Myers. Because everyone knows the only way to defeat the big baddie is to have a bigger b-list rapper come in and kick his face in. DROP DEM NIKES OFF YO ASS SMOKING MAN FO I BLAST YOU, FOO!
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Xzibit plays the entire movie straight until said pivotal moment when it is time for him to go "GHETTO ON DAT AZZ!"
It's so brilliant after all, to get all these rappers to play roles you would never ever buy them in in the first place. Yet the director spends the whole of the movie attempting to sell you Xzibit as say an FBI Agent or whatnot, until the moment in the film comes when he turns into a G-THUG, which is also a moment they are going to use in every trailer for this film we see. -
Chris Carter should be dancing for nickels. He started with a great premise but ultimately didn't have an ending in mind.
What's the point of a stand-alone episode when an alien invasion is imminent?
Finish off the story you started. -
robert patrick rules
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"Word to the alien...I'm going to pimp that FO. MMmhmm.. The x-zbit files mutha fucker."
This is going to suck so much cock. I'm sad because Robert Patrick actually CAN act. -
odd, yes . . . but, the show's best was when it was odd. Ahhh, to head back to Vancouver again.
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Dec 07, 2007 12:51:59 AM CST
Yeah MapMan I too wish they would end it
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
Give us some fucking resolution. You lost junkies have nothing on us. It's been like 15 years....FINISH IT!
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The problem with introducing "name" support cast like this is that there will inevitably have to be more screen time spent with these people, who can only be distractions from what we all really want to see.
Which, of course, is Mulder, Scully, and the rest of the original cast, and that includes Frank Black and Agent Doggett. It's been years since we've seen our old favorites, and we're already getting distractions from them?
So please, Chris Carter, don't get too many clever ideas. Just give us a great, suspenseful, creepy X-Files story with the elements we love.
You've acquired a lot more fans over the years via X-Files DVDs, and I guarantee that not one of them has been thinking, "this is great, but what I'd really like to see is Amanda Peet and Xibit". Not one.
Here's hoping this is some kind of stunt casting for characters who'll be "redshirt" victims in the first 5 minutes of the film, and then gone. -
Weird but cool.
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Where the hell are agents Doggett & Reyes when you need them?...oh wait,....haha...i get it,..X-ZHIBIT,..X-FILES! Cool! What an X-tremely...fucking gay combination. Sounds like the casting is starting to go to hell. They've had 5 years to incubate, they had better not fuck this up.
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I hope this is more of a horror/scary story, than that alien stuff.
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I'm definitely going to check the reviews before I buy a ticket to see this. X-Files was amazing in it's early days. Genuine must-see television, but as the seasons rolled on it became pretty plain that they had no idea where they were taking it. The film was just more of the same, with a better supporting cast (which looks to be what they're doing this time). I'm just not that interested in seeing Mulder and Scully so much that I'll sit through another story that goes absolutely nowhere.
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That's awesome. I used to love me some "Millenium". That show was so goddamn dark it warped my fragile little mind (I was in middle school, fer christsakes).
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And Mulder and Scully are out of the FBI! Surely these little details will be dealt with???
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almost as dull as Sticky Fingaz and Coolio, when it comes to rappers-turned-actors. Give me Ice Cube or James Todd "don't call me LL Cool J" Smith anytime. They proved THEY could act.
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Oh, i thought this was the speed racer talkback...Oh well, i'll put my two cents in. I love it that they going with a stand alone story. Most people even don't remember the whole alien invasion/2012 storyline or they either stopped watching the show. I'm not too worry about xbhibit being in the movie cause i know it will still be a mulder and scully movie. Whoever else they get for the movie won't have that much screen time. They can do the whole 2012 thing in the next xfiles movie. Oh yeah, the speed racer trailer rocks!!
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i am better than you!
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The car is out there!
Xzibit is cool, but I hope for thismovie he cuts his hair man. There has been no diversity in his on screen persona, image wise at least. -
as Special Agent Dale Cooper. If only.
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There's a whole bunch of other FBI personnel from the original series, including the character Cary Elwes played. I like the idea of Frank Black in this, but I'm already predicting it will be for an "obvious" role: Mulder consults Frank about a case Frank investigated early in his career with the FBI, which could be connected to the case Mulder and Scully are investigating in this movie. And I predict Frank Black will die in this movie.
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I'd watch a feature movie if Lucy Butler was in it, you know, or her daughter.
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Or maybe Carter intended to have Dogget and Reyes in the movie, but Fox said no -- they wanted a younger, hipper pair. So Xzibit and Peet were brought in and new characters were created for them. Maybe they'll replace Skinner's part with a new one played by Morgan Freeman.
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...those are the only two characters I really care about after Mulder and Scully, so I'd love to see them pop up in this in some capacity, and the bigger the appearance the better. And unlike so many of the X-Files supporting cast, I personally think that they are also about the only supporting characters that weren't pretty much played out by the time X-Files and Millennium finished their runs. Unfortunately Robert Patrick has said that he's not in any way invloved with the movie, which is a damn shame if true, though at least Henriksen has been hinting that he might make an appearance...we'll see I guess.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrrIRcCbo9M
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Does Gillian display those big, hanging, milky white, areola the size of a Kennedy Half Dollar, DD, gravity succumbing, mombo mammary fuck udders? Who gives a shit about a 2nd tier hip hop dude?
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And all the haters can eat black oil.
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Ladies love Cool J. And so do I. In Deep Blue Sea that is.
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I smell something rotten.
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Pop ur collar and break yoself
LL Cool J was busy. tooken -
What the hell is a xzibit? Some sort of anal verruca medication?
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The X Files 2 is a perfect teen dream. It has everything that makes a movie totally cool: laughs, adventure, spirit, hot music, drama and of course BRITNEY! Britney rocks! She is like a comet. A talent of her magnitude only comes around once in a lifetime and you can't take your eyes off her when she is on screen in this totally cool and delightfully hip movie.
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well i would also prefer the "other agents" be them but going by what happened in the final episode, and how this is supposed to be stand alone, they'd have no place here. as for skinner, last we saw he walked into an office and nobody knows if he got fired or killed or something new. so i'm pretty sure mulder and scully will be the only true connection to the series, i do hope im wrong cuz i think skinner at the least should be there. and since we now know the FBI is involved in the story, i wonder if they'll take the opportunity to tie up those tiny loose ends regarding the agency. but most likely those agents will just show up wherever the story takes place and that'll be it. anyway i'm psyched, i could care less about those actors, im just glad to see another movie. and if it ends up being bad, well least they made one and tried.
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Because she farts a lot.
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I'll only add it wasn't entirely Carter's fault. Some of the blame must also lie on Fox.
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Excerpt from the script:
MYSTERY MAN: We know what really happened to your sister, Mulder.
MULDER: Nigga that was so last century. Who gives a fuck. Am I right, XZIB - I mean, Agent Macdaddy? -
And Scully is hot. That is all.
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"Mulder, today you remind me of a small Mexican chihuahua!"
Ah...if only.
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good to see they are adding some flava to the white files. Putting hip hop stars in films always makes them better. bleh.
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Background... OK, Xzibit.. give me angry black guy... and Action! Why don't they just drop Amanda Peet and hire Ice Cube while they're at it. He went to the same acting school as Xzibit. I think Kevin Costner is the headmaster.
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Xzibit??? wtf???
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is the new Karl Urban.
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You cacks never cease to amaze me. It was the definitive television show of the 1990s -- it was brilliant. And for the record, the end was brilliant. Although I never cared for Reyes, I thought Doggett added a lot of depth in the last couple seasons. To the best of my knowledge, this is a stand-alone storyline which could take place at any time within the X-Files chain of events. As of the last episode, Mulder and Scully were on the run and all their FBI cohorts had sold them selves out to help Mulder escape execution. Obviously, this film does not take place AFTER those events.
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Dec 07, 2007 8:45:50 AM CST
DR GOODSPEED...Costner IS a headmaster, but not in the education
by cletus van damme
...and can I call you "Stanley?"
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Dec 07, 2007 8:46:22 AM CST
*SIGH*...that should read "educational sense" at the end.
by cletus van damme
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LOL .... he got the part because of his name lol
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This better not be about the Loch Ness Monster and Billy Connolly's playing the local beardo who helps out.I'm Scottish but dont want that shit. Reason im thinking this is that there was a rumour ages ago about the movie being about a loch monster thing, it so wont be though what the f**k am i worried about? Billy connolly showing up in an Xfiles movie and totally taking me out of the film, he's too familiar to us scots, and he does lottery tv ads that are very very annoying.
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I though tthe x-files was more into aliens than pixies?
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I think the time is exactly right for this. The sting of those last, awful seasons has faded by now. The Bush administration has made the paranoia of the original show seem quaint in retrospect. The time is now right to bring this back.
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it ate scully's dog.
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was the best x-files episode... hands fuckin' down.
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Moulder and Scully should marry each other, and then we can have a new series that combines elements of the X-Files with the classic "Hart to Hart." This would be like having money in the bank.
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xfiles rools...been watching every episode in order for the last couple years on dvd...at 8th season now..sopranos slowed me down.
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WTF?
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someone needs to cast no-bonez from m.c. hammer's crew. word.
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Speaking of them, they better be in. Also Skinner, who did a wonderful turn on Reaper the other week.
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lol xzibit
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Seriously, so it's cool if you name yourself a noun, not a proper noun, but just a noun? So if I change the spelling it's cool if I name myself Kar? Or how about howce, trayler, Dysplay, Trasch....
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Because rappers = shit, and rappers =/= actors. Sorry, Moss Deaf or whatever you call him, he isn't a good actor either. People are just surprised that a rapper can actually utter a few words in real life so they automatically peg him as a good actor, when in reality its just surprise. Rappers are the least talented "musicians" on Earf, and they make worse "actors".
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So true. So very true. That episode is fantastic. The bit where that one guy calls mulder a "mandroid" alone is great.
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that there are currently as many posts in the x-files talkback are there are in the sex and the city talkback, and I think they came online at relatively the same time.
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rappers, but none of them get radio or television time. I don't listen to a lot of Hip Hop but it gets a bad reputation from all of the wannabe gangsters and insecure misogynists. Don't dismiss an entire musical genre just because the popular stuff is shit. As far as rappers turned actors I tend to agree. Mos De (who's a damn good rapper) is a mediocre actor, but even he's much better than most. Musicians should avoid acting and actors should avoid music.
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from that episode is still on the loose though, I'm now getting scary visions of Chris Carter realising he cant think of a good new paranormal mystery and then it occurs to him that 'We Only Did One Loch Monster show! hardly anyone will remember that,let's do it again, we aint done enough loch nessers' but not really , no way they'd unveil a loch monster as being the big oogyboogy, mind you they might pull a Spiderman3 and have aliens landing on the Loch Ness Monster while Scully battles a creature who claims to be Elvis, that Elvis plot could generate some tearjerkin moments.
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of course you can. ALSO... they should get LL Cool J instead. Nothing beats a guy who after every line he says has to lick his lips.
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better be in this.
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at least some sort of lead into the next movie that delves into the mythology...!!!
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also needs to be in it
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I wonder if Agent Zibit gets to hit that redheaded Catholic Scully ass?!?
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I mean, he did the cop thing okay in Ace Ventura, right? eh, whatever, I'll worry about whether this sequel is gonna be worth it when it gets closer and I'm over Indy IV, Dark Knight, Iron Man, and Hulk 2.0
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yeah, and when they come upon the "alien" body and mulder is completely stoic and then just lets out a "waAWOOH". whole episode is full of classic moments.
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A "stand-alone" episode?! This is a friggen movie, of course it "stands alone." But, please don't go back in time and tread water with this. Start by explaining everything in the main arc, so far, then move the fricken story FORWARD! Now that everyone involved has come to their senses and realized that their careers actually did depend on this show, let's keep it going, folks. And, btw, aliens landing in 2012 is funny, because it's true.
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Check out her record. She's the Kathy Griffin of movies.
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Or fails commercially? If it's the former, she was in Igby Goes Down and Syriana. If it's the latter, she was in Identity, which I think made a few bucks. But yeah, she's really not much of an actress.
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Sweet.
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Yes, I do know Christ Carter created Frank Black. But I also know the Millenium/X-Files crossover was the worst swan song of a beloved show since AfterM*A*S*H (a vomit only equalled by a fat Riker showing up as the chef on the last episode of ST:Enterprise). Can I see a show of hands of people who wished the show had ended after season 2? Or am I just getting old and cranky?
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I meant Millenium. ENT should not have existed at all.
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When I think of a good final episode for X-Files. Anything after that seems like a spin-off. Now why couldn't they have made that the Millenium crossover? They could have made Frank Black the dude who had lost his kid. Would've been sad, but good.
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There is NO ending or resolution to the X-Files. Not in anyone's desk drawer or file directory. The meandering story bit off more than it could swallow, doubling back on itself numerous times as it tried to convince viewers it knew where it was going.
The problem was, it was flailing without a guiding light. Chris Carter simply screwed the pooch. He didn't plan well and the show fell apart.
Lots of people, including myself, would love to see resolution to the show's larger issues. But that ain't going to happen. I still enjoy The X-Files for what it was: a deeply flawed but compelling examination of the paranormal. Like other talkbackers here, I enjoy watching the occasional X-Files episode late at night. Scully and Mulder's arguments always crack me up, and the mystery of whatever they're investigating generally hooks me like a fish.
But there's no resolution. There never was. It's like "The Sopranos."
But I hope they at least give us a good story with this new film. Xzibit should help. -
... I'd be embarrassed by Billy Connolly, too. Fortunately, I'm a yank and have had little exposure to Billy Connolly ever since "Head of the Class" was cancelled back in 1991. All we have to put up with is Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond on "Lost" who's only half-Scottish, but who has the annoying habit of continually calling everyone "brother" or "sister" every 10 seconds in every conversation he has.
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BUT was topless in The Whole Nine Yards, which was a fair hit. Enough to make an equally forgettable sequel.
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Which was complete bullshit in my opinion. The Lone Gunmen, Krycek who was Syler before Syler was around. This is what we are left with.
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I initially thought the series finale was a big let-down - but then again I'm also a Twin Peaks Freak, so I'm used to unresolved cliffhangers. Maybe Carter and Co. are testing the waters to see if there is enough of an audience for a new feature (I believe there still is) before putting a trillion dollars into an alien invasion epic.
I'm still holding out hope for "X-FILES: 2012" anyway. Imagine...the government becomes so desparate to fend off the coming takeover that they ask for Mulder & Scully for help. M & S decline, until the suprise arrival of their long-lost son William (leading a band of resistance fighters) convinces them to truly "fight the future".... -
See! That's what I'm talking about. Seriously, what you propose is a perfect way to get this whole thing going again.
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"home" the one with the peacock brothers and their mother who lived under the bed.
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seems like they're just trying to get some dark faces in seats, if you'll pardon my crudeness. Beyonce in a Pink Fucking Panther film being the most obvious example. that being said, I like hip-hop and R&B, and really liked Xzibit in that movie where Belluci's husband fucked Rachel Geller in that hotel. but you don't see them putting Sally Field or Julie Roberts in "urban" films just to balance things out.
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Spot on. Closure was awesome. I got choked up watching it. I thought the season 8 finale was okay, too, though.
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When did Robert Patrick say this?!?! Aw, man. I'm with you, after Mulder and Scully, I want to see Doggett, Frank Black, and Skinner. Nothing can be done, I guess, since the script's done and the WGA's on strike.
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Now only if his name didn't sound as retarded.
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I guess...
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say it slowly.... i like it..
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I'm not exactly psyched about the names. And yeah, Robert Patrick needs to be in the film in some form or fashion - not to mention Mitch Pillegi.
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Dec 07, 2007 7:15:43 PM CST
But there's no resolution. There never was. It's like "The Sopra
by homerofthesea
I disagree. To me, the X-Files had a very definite resolution. It just had a bit of a stink on it because they had to include Doggett (sp?) and Reyes (sp?). And they did explain almost every bit of the mythology -- in fact, they spent almost an entire episode spelling it out. Only that also kind of sucked because of the "second conspiracy" they tacked on. And I hate to see that compared with "The Sopranos" which, instead of making a sad attempt at recapturing what made earlier seasons great, grew and evolved into something more complicated, mature and interesting. I know it's not really a fair comparison because who knows what Chris Carter might have done if his show hadn't aired on a network that was hell-bent on dragging the show several seasons beyond its natural life, but that doesn't change the way I feel about those last two seasons and how they diluted the greatness of one of the greatest shows ever to air on TV. And "Closure"? "Closure" pisses me off more than anything else they ever did. They took the fuel for almost everything Mulder did and turned it into a lame ghost story. I can't think of anything more insulting. Anyways... I'll watch the new X-Files movie. Probably no matter what, because I want to believe.
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You're right on about "Closure". It felt like a cheat, although the final episode ("The Truth", I believe) did a bit to make up for it.
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Surely this film could retcon them back to life. And don't call me Shirley.
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when they started filming in LA.
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For at least a couple of seasons or so.
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Now if there is some Frank Black in the movie then I'm looking forward to seeing this. And dudes - it'll be good for the back catalog.
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What is this, a steven segal flick? Where's Vern?
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Everybody get inside! Chris Jericho, where you at? Arnold Vasloo, Darkman #2, time for some action! And probably Chris Gore, or Harry "Beyoncé" Knowles in a cameo as a vid store clerk. Did Vince Gilligan write this?
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Damn right. You can't have creepy, atmospheric tv-drama shot against bright blue skies and desert scrub. You need shadowy woods and gloomy rain. Also, you need the show's stars to bother dressing up like their characters, which Duchovny got lazy about in LA. I swear that in that snake-handling episode, Duchovny was wearing a very un-mulderlike brown silk shirt. Ach, what wasteful details crowd my brain.
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AP (Hollywood)-Reality-television star Flavor Flav announced today he will be playing an FBI agent in the upcoming X-Files 2 movie. He agreed to not wear his fake gold teeth and 10 rings, but said he will not take off the Viking helmet or large clock that hangs around his neck. Producers agreed to his requests and will somehow have to write into the script why this FBI agent wears a Viking helmet and clock as accessories to his trenchcoat and suit.Producers were said to be relieved that he did not demand to wear his diamond encrusted crown and cape, as that would just be, "too weird!".
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cant have x files without cancer man!
goddammit.
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while ignoring the mythology. I'm more interested in a resolution to Mulder and Scully's relationship than the fifth resolution to the mythology. I also heard a rumour that the movie will follow a different pair of FBI agents for the first third of the film before we even see Mulder and Scully. The rumour also stated that David Bowie will show up for no reason and the screen will go all wonky, so I think they might have been describing another film.
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all those years of waiting to find out what happened to his sister, and we find out that she turned into starlight and listens to Moby.
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disappointing. Episodes like closure make me wish they had kept the truth "out there." That being said, all the run up to the answers were pretty damn good. The same thing will probably happen to Lost. I can't claim to be totally satisfied with The Prisoner or Twin Peaks's finale either. Part of it is the fact that you have years of build up and no matter what the payoff is going to seem somewhat disappointing.
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episodes, not the standalone episodes.
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Hopefully this'll be a "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" situation where one or both of the new people introduced at the beginning get killed off or disappear into another dimension before the main story kicks in.
rbatty024, I agree to a large extent. But the finale to Twin Peaks, in my opinion, was a though-provoking and brilliant cliffhanger that the showrunners and David Lynch assumed would force the network's hand and give them a next season. I mean, come on - I'm not gonna spoil it for everyone else, but I think the last moments of that show are pretty fucking spectacular.
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was also an outstanding episode. man, there were some real gems there.
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Does anyone else feel like Duchovney's taking a step-back after playing such a fleshed out character like Hank Moody on Californication. Just feels like going back and banging one of your ex-girlfriends after you've married a kick-ass wife. Sure it's nice and nostalgic, but you've moved on... thoughts?
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Though it couldn't possibly be worse than season 9.
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I can't wait, too. I hear the music as well and see dual flashlights shining in my eyes.
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Dogget wasn't that bad but...
anyone remember that awful episode where reyes is in a coma but trapped in a dollhouse with other coma patients?
I guess they had to make sure everyone on xfiles was in a coma at least once.
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Aliens. Brack.
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