X-FILES sequel? Or reboot?
Sunday, August 23, 2009
"They've talked about doing it in 2012," she apparently said. "I think there were some discussions about that."
The site went on to report that Chris Carter has already responded to Anderson's remark, saying, "I'm afraid I have no news to report - other than our continuing desire to make a third film if there's an audience for it."
Bloody Disgusting, meanwhile, reports that there is talk of a franchise reboot.
While Hollywood is in a reboot frenzy right now, I have my doubts that we'll see the X-Files rebooted, at least until after 2012. The TV series ended with a very deliberate cliffhanger about bad things happening in 2012, and it would seem to make more sense to do something with that (even if it was only a direct-to-DVD something) instead of starting over with a new storyline and/or new actors.
You could say the last few seasons of The X-Files were an attempt at a reboot, with Doggett and Reyes swapped in for Mulder and Scully. But audiences never warmed to it, because they still wanted to see Mulder and Scully.
The problem with I Want to Believe wasn't that Mulder and Scully had gotten older, or that Anderson and Duchovny had lost their chemistry. The actors did a good job, and the film itself wasn't awful. But it also wasn't anything that inspired people to go see it in theaters. If it had been some epic about an alien invasion, maybe people would have wanted to see that. If it had been Mulder and Scully on the trail of some truly terrifying monster, maybe people would've wanted to see that.
But Mulder and Scully working out their relationship problems, occasionally taking a break to follow up on some sad, transsexual Frankenstein monster who is just stretched out on a slab for the whole movie, looking comatose? That would've made for a weak episode of the TV series, and it was pretty hopeless as a film.
I don't doubt that there are discussions going on right now, including discussions of a possible reboot. Even if the last movie tanked, The X-Files made too much money for Fox for them to just let it all end with the whimper that was I Want to Believe.
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2 comments:
Amen! I think you hit the nail on the head with the most recent movie.
I think a reboot would be a mistake as well. 2012 makes a ton of sense to me. The truth is out there!
My girlfriend is a fan, and she was really into the Scully/Mulder relationship, and even she was like, "Gee, there was sure a lot of relationship stuff in that movie..." I can only guess that Carter's thinking was, "Well, the fans always said they wanted to see Mulder and Scully together, so, here we go!"
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