I was just wondering , If anyone had heard if they are planning on making a new x files movie as of december ?

Question

I heard its supposed to be in production at the end of december 2006?

Answer 1

I know it's been like Entertainment Weekly around here with all this discussion of entertainment news, but I have to share this one. Being a long-time fan but late-comer to the world of the X-Files, I've been hankering for Chris Carter to return to what he does best. And let's face it, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, for better or for worse, are really only interesting when they're doing the X-Files.

Earlier this week David Duchovny told the UK's Sun Online that that an X-Files movie sequel is in fact planned, saying that "[w]e're hoping to get together just under a year from now and make another X Files movie." He noted that Gillian Anderson has not signed on yet, but Duchovny's statements indicate that the script—a collaboration between Carter and with Frank Spotnitz—is not yet finished. Duchovny made similar comments at the recent Critics Choice Awards, as well. However, when TV Guide got word of this, they did a little fact checking and called up Chris Cater.

"There's nothing at the moment going on," Chris Carter's agent, Elliott Webb, says. "There is no negotiation, there's no script written, there's nothing other than a desire for people to get together."

Sadly, it looks like Duchovny may just be champing at the bit. Nevertheless, his comments to the Sun Online are interesting, if only for revealing what he expects to come of the movie, should the "desire" for the movie actually produce one. If and when it is finished, Duchovny says we'll get a movie that shies away from the master story arc concerning alien conspiracies and all of that in favor of a nice paranormal freakshow.

"I think we're going back to the ‘monster of the week' type feel, where if you're not an avid fan and don't understand the mythology you can still come to it and get the movie, Duchovny said. "Especially because at this point I think some people would have forgotten what the mythology was or what happened in seasons two, three and four."

The TV show was apt dealing with "monster of the week" themes, even if Scully did get annoying with her constant amazement that Mulder would believe in something paranormal. The question is whether or not old X-Files fans are going to be content with a X-Files horror flick.

When the X-Files was still in production for TV, Duchovny got the seven-year itch and wanted out, so the last two years of the series were largely devoid of his presence. Now not only does he want back in, but he says that he'd like to see the X-Files turned into a movie franchise. Whatever his motivations, I for one would like to see new life under the X-Files name.

Answer 2

I also read a couple of years ago that a second movie would be put out by now. It is hard to believe that the first one is almost 10 years old.

I am hopeful but have my doubts that the forces that be will come together and make it happen. If there is going to be another X-Files movie, I predict it will be in a decade or two in the form of a remake of the television show, much like the slew of TV-to-movie remakes we have seen in the past and will continue to see in the future, with different actors playing Mulder and Scully. That's my opinion and of course I could be wrong.

I wonder if it would be easier to bring the TV series back if only as a temporary mini-series or a made for TV movie (like a reunion show, only without the schmaltz) to resolve Mulder and Scully's fate as fugitives, exonerate Mulder from the murder conviction, and reinstate them back into the FBI and The X-Files. Then they could defeat the whole end of the world plot as well as throw in a few monster of the week stories. I know it sounds corny but it's wishful thinking on my part.

But to answer your question, I have heard nothing definitive about another movie, just some speculation and expression of the hope that it happens.

Answer 3

Sadly, production has not started and a script has not even been written for the second movie. I know that both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will do the movie, once they get production rolling. As of right now, all they have right now is an idea to do a second X-Files movie. So, no, I haven't heard anything about them starting production December '06. But, until they finally do start production, we can all entertain ourselves with the first X-Files movie and the various DVD's of the seasons that have been released. I hope that answered your question.

Answer 4

David Duchovny says that the second one X-information action picture will pass into production quickly for a launch next year, Gillian Anderson is onboard, sequence author Chris Carter is co-writing, alongside with primary author/producer Frank Spotnitz (who change into doing the cancelled, yet for my area cool evening Stalker television revamp in 2005), and directing