Usatoday.com

1/17/08


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."

Thanks for posting this.

I can't wait to see this movie!!

New photos

will check this new movie 4 sure.

and errr....thx 4 the pics... @ scully...

Damn. They're both still hot.

Loved the early shows (before it got all so wishy washy), will love the movie, I am sure.

Gillian....

One of my fav tv shows of all time.

awesome. one of the best shows ever. i just recently finished my second run-through of all the episodes on DVD + the first movie. i'm looking forward to this.

Cool!

They are my favorite FBI agents..... ever!!!!!

I was obsessed with this show. Can't wait to see this.

calldapplwondery83 said:

saw a movie awhile back where she sticks a gun up some dude's butt.

hot.

His junk fits in a demitasse, but I might see this.

i remember getting my ex to tape the last episode cuz i had to work. unfortunately, she used a one hour tape. it was a two hour show. i have NEVER seen the past episode in its entirety.

Aside said:

Indeed. I'd let her do that to me. No, wait. I hope she'd let me do it to her.

HamsterHuey said:

Yeah, I'm more of a fan of the earlier episodes too. David wanted new roles so they had to work around him wanting to "venture" out.....brining in Agents Doggett & Reyes. Later on it seemed to be one long episode rather than different X-files cases.

calldapplwondery83 said:

david

IstenSzek said:

Skinner





























psych.

best. show. ever.

Mulder and Scully themselves sit down behind-the-scenes at Wondercon to talk about re-opening The X-Files.
Feb 2008


During this weekend's Wondercon MovieWeb was able to go behind-the-scenes of the convention floor to have a secret little chat with actor David Duchonvy and actress Gillian Anderson to talk about coming back to The X-Files after a 6 year hiatus from the show ended. The truth follows...

Earlier it was stated that we get to see the characters in a whole new way...

David Duchovny: In the general sense, there's a journey to be had. You either start at the top or the bottom for a journey to happen. Our movie has to start at the top and work it's way down. Or start at the bottom and work it's way up.

How does it feel to be back?

Gillian Anderson: We've all been very excited. When we were rehearsing it and finally got on set together, it was a good feeling.

David Duchovny: I'm just happy we didn't come [to WonderCon] before shooting. It'd be too much pressure, sometimes it's good to work in a vacuum. If we started shooting tomorrow after this, I'd be like "I can't satisfy!" They want too much! They love us too much!"

Do you feel a certain responsibility over characters who have gotten larger than life?

David Duchovny: I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past. Trust Chris and trust Gillian that we're doing our work right. But if we're wrong, it's the first time we've been wrong.

Can you talk about the working relationship while getting back in the groove?

Gillian Anderson: There's something incredibly familiar when we get to work together. There's a natural rhythm that we step into. It depends what the scene is and how it's written and how it allows us to play on old dynamics.

When did you realize The X-Files was part of our culture?

Gillian Anderson: Probably the 3rd season. It actually hit me. We were working every weekend doing magazine covers and press.

In the 6 years away, was it good to creatively ferment ideas for the characters?

David Duchovny: I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

How did you get back into character?

Gillian Anderson: Every now and then we'd meet up and reminisce about the characters. At the beginning, shortly after we started shooting, someone sent me some clips put together on youtube. It was the first time I'd seen something like that. "The intimate moments of Mulder and Scully."

David Duchovny: Very romantic (laughs)

Gillian Anderson: And it was actually a good thing for me to see, to step in the shoes of some of the audience members and see the history of the relationship and try to honor that again.

David Duchovny: You're kinda striding the line of what's yours and theirs. What's yours (points to us), what's mine, what's ours as creators of it and what's yours as owners.

Conspiracy theories in general have exploded with youtube, mass communication, broadband, all that. Did you look into those to fill your head and get motivated?

David Duchovny: No, I remain a guy who skates on the surface of...I mean, I know how to e-mail.

Gillian Anderson: I think I visited youtube by myself for the first time this year.

TV and movies are different mediums, is it a different process to adapt to?

Gillian Anderson: Doing it for a film is different from doing it for a television series. We've only done one other film and there's a difference in lifting something to the big screen, I think, to wrap one's brain around that when one's brain is actually used to doing the TV more. It's kind of odd.

David Duchovny: It's an interesting challenge as an actor. It's not quite like being in a play, where you're re-creating the character every night from the beginning, but it is something like that, I would imagine. There's a certain kind of honoring of the past work that you've done. So it's tricky. It's interesting. That makes it interesting.

David, at the end of the series, there was understandable ambivalence. You had done it so long, you wanted to go out and do other things. Now that so much time has passed, are you interested in doing another film in the series?

David Duchovny: Of course. Going out and doing other things was only a matter of the fact that we were busy 10 months out of the year doing that. It was never a hatred of "that thing," it was only a hatred of the fact that I couldn't get out and do anything else.

Wanna see some footage?

Mars23 said:

No, but do you have any boobage?

RodeoSchro said:[quote]

Mars23 said:

Yes. NSFW


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