Seriously, after the misery tour that X Files: I Want To Believe was, does anyone really think that there’s going to be a third X Files movie? Well, David Duchovny sure sounds interested. What, doesn’t cable pay that well? Anyway, Duchovny’s on record with the following spectacular brain fart:
“As far as the X-Files movie I’d like to do next, if we get a chance to do it, would be a return to the heart and soul of the mythology, which is the alien-oriented conspiracy. I think it’s natural for The X-Files to have another movie in 2012, so we’ll see if we get to do it.”
This would be about the only way they could, considering the beating that the last one took for having absolutely nothing to do with the alien-oriented conspiracy and having more to do with organ transplants and sleazy cash grabs.
Oh, and just in case anyone thought that Duchovny could actually express an original thought on the second X-Files movie, check THIS out:
“I was happy with it… I have nothing but respect for [X-Files creator] Chris Carter and the writing staff.”
Oh noes! Run for the hillz! Cancer Man got Mulder and is making him repeat clearly obvious propaganda about the quality of a pile of crap movie. Well, that was that minor nervous breakdown averted, so look for a third X-Files movie to probably come out about the same time hell freezes over.
Despite the fact that both critics and fans hated The X-Files: I Want to Believe, filmmakers are still keen on doing a third film in the series. The recent film was a flop at the box office.
Frank Spotnitz, speaking to MovieWeb, believes that the franchise still has life in it and hopes that once the film’s DVD is out, the studio will decide “whether they want to roll the dice on another X-Files feature.”
As for the subject of the third film, he noted December 2012 to be important.
"There’s a date that looms very important in X-Files mythology, which is December 2012. I mean, if we were to make one more feature, I think we would definitely have to deal with alien colonization. I honestly think that’s the movie that most non-hardcore X-Files fans, as well as a lot of hardcore X-Files fans are dying to see. Obviously, I think Chris has had ideas about that from the very beginning when he dreamt up this show, sixteen years ago."
More on it as it develops.
Those who believe will finally be rewarded for their faith in X-Files, as Twentieth Century Fox will host a Fan Celebration at the world premiere screening of The X-Files: I Want to Believe on July 23 at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
The studio is inviting X-Files fans to gather day in specially-built seating in front of the Hollywood landmark where they can observe the red-carpet arrivals, as well as participate in a conference with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, along with director Chris Carter and writer-producer Frank Spotnitz.
The seating will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis, with special credentials to be distributed to the first 500 fans who arrive that day. Those who cannot make it will be able to experience the event live on the Internet.
The first TV spot for The X-Files: I Want to Believe has now started broadcasting on televisions nationwide. The movie opens July 25 and stars series regulars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, as well as Xzibit, Amanda Peet and Adam Godley.
The movie is said to be reminiscent of the older X-Files standalone episodes, dealing with a single case and not an overarching conspiracy like the later seasons tended to focus on.
Hit the jump for the TV spot.
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Not far from the opening of X-Files: I Want to Believe, Gillian Anderson plans to star in and produce a biopic of Martha Gellhorn, a well-known journalist who trail blazed as a female war correspondent covering conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam. She even lasted through strife in personal relationships that included a failed marriage to Ernest Hemingway.
Anderson’s company, Fiddlehead Productions acquired “Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life,” a 2004 biography by Caroline Moorehead.
Anderson, who opens July 25 in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, plays Gellhorn.
The X-Files creator, Chris Carter, keeps secrets very well and it’s understandable that he kept his latest movie under wraps for a very long time.
Fencewalker, a dark drama that stars upstarts, is filming right now in Los Angeles with Carter directing Natalie Dormer, Katie Cassidy, Xzibit, Derek Magyar and Meckah Brooks.
Representatives for the director and actor would not confirm they were filming.
The story is essentially a coming-of-age semiautobiographical character piece with no supernatural elements.
A distributor has not picked up the film; however on a modest budget Carter, who wrote the script for what is thought to be his passion project some time ago, raised the financing himself.
