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Kojjiro the Angry
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A new film reviving the cult 1990s TV series The X-Files is moving closer to being made, according to reports.
David Duchovny, one of the show's stars, has told reporters he will receive a script next week.
Duchovny and co-star Gillian Anderson are both "on board" to reprise their roles as alien-hunting special agents Mulder and Scully, he said.
The script has been written by creator Chris Carter and writer Frank Spotnitz, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The pair co-wrote the first X-Files movie, which came out almost a decade ago. The original thriller series was a hit when it ran from 1993-2002, winning three Golden Globes for best TV drama.
Duchovny was speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour, promoting his new comedy Californication, in which he plays a novelist struggling with a complicated private life.
Hopefully they can tie up loose ends from the finale. Instead of having the ending with Mulder and Scully in bed.
Scully: You've always said that you want to believe. But believe in what Mulder? If this is the truth that you've been looking for then what is left to believe in?
Mulder: I want to believe that the dead are not lost to us. That they speak to us as part of something greater than us - greater than any alien force. And if you and I are powerless now, I want to believe that if we listen to what's speaking, it can give us the power to save ourselves.
Scully: Then we believe the same thing.
(Mulder climbs onto the bed so that they are holding each other)
Mulder: (whispers) Maybe there's hope
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Mulder arrives in a helicopter along with other people at the Mount Weather Complex, a government building, in Bluemont, VA.
The people are guided along inside but Mulder escapes. He sees he's in some sort of facility so he looks around. He enters a secured area and looks on a computer and sees something startling but before he could do anything, Knowle Rohrer finds him.
They fight and then Knowle starts chasing after Mulder. Then, Krycek appears and helps Mulder out.
Knowle Rohrer catches up with Mulder and they fight some more. It ends with Mulder pushing him over a ledge and down a few flights onto electrical wires, supposedly killing him.
Some guards take Mulder to a jail. Skinner tells Scully that Mulder is back and they visit him in jail. In their meeting, Mulder seems passive and non-expressive and appears to be brainwashed. He tells them he's a guilty man and should be punished.
After Scully and Skinner leave the room, Krycek appears and starts talking with Mulder. Later, Kersh goes to the USMC Base Brig in Quantico and asks for the military to go easy on Mulder. Kersh is told that Mulder will get a trial but in a military court of law.
Scully and Skinner go to see Mulder, with no guard this time, and says that he had to put on an act last time and isn't really brainwashed. Mulder and Scully share a long kiss. Skinner tells Mulder that he's on trial for his life. Mulder says they're rigging the case and asks Skinner to represent him. Skinner accepts.
Then, Doggett and Reyes come in with news that the military claims to have the body of Knowle Rohrer, which the agents know is impossible since super-soldiers can't die.
Later, Scully visits Mulder alone in his cell. She says she needs him to tell her the truth or they'll lose. Mulder says he's been hiding in New Mexico, looking for the truth.
He says he found something in the facility earlier but he won't tell her what. The next day, the trial begins. Skinner is upset because it's a military court of law and because he can't find Marita Covarrubias, his first witness, so he calls Scully to the stand.
She talks about how she came to the X-Files, how she believes in aliens, and how there are government conspiracies. Next, Skinner calls Jeffrey Spender. Spender talks about the Cigarette Smoking Man, Mulder's sister, and abductions. Later, in his cell, Scully begs Mulder to make a deal or something but he refuses. When she leaves, X appears.
He gives him information on how to find Marita Covarrubias. Skinner calls her next. She talked about alien viruses & vaccinations, Krycek, and the Syndicate. Skinner then calls Gibson Praise. Gibson says he hid Mulder in the desert for the last year.
Gibson then reveals that one of the judges is a super-soldier. Skinner calls Doggett to the stand. Doggett says Mulder couldn't have killed Knowle Rohrer because he couldn't be killed. Skinner calls Reyes next. She talked about Scully's baby. That night, Scully and Reyes go to see the supposed body of Knowle Rohrer.
Scully finds hard evidence that the body is not Knowle Rohrer and takes it to court since it could get Mulder out but then Kersh throws out the evidence. The next day, the panel finds Mulder guilty. Scully later gets a call that night that Mulder's sentence is death by lethal injection. That night, Doggett and Skinner come to break Mulder out of jail. When they get near the exit, Kersh finds them but helps them escape. They get to Scully and Gibson. Kersh tells Mulder and Scully to go to Canada and be off the continent in 24 hours.
The next morning, Doggett and Reyes find that their office and the X-Files have been packed up. On the drive to New Mexico, Mulder pulls over to go the bathroom when the Lone Gunmen appear. They tell Mulder to turn around and leave but he doesn't want to.
Later, Mulder and Scully get to some pueblos. They go inside and find the Cigarette Smoking Man, alive. He tells Scully what Mulder found on that computer in the government base, that on December 22, 2012, the aliens will invade and take over the world. Meanwhile, Doggett and Reyes get to the pueblos but Knowle Rohrer finds them and tries to kill them but is destroyed himself because of something in the rocks out there. The agents barely make it out alive before black helicopters blow up the pueblos with the Cigarette Smoking Man inside.
Mulder and Scully go to a hotel in Roswell and talk. Mulder says he's failed in every aspect but Scully disagrees. She says he'll never give up. And she said she'd do the last 9 years all over again. Then, they crawl into bed together and hold each other.
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Tebor
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Hmmm, you'd think I would've mentioned this already as I've been talking about it nonstop on other groups for the past month...  *shamed*
It's real, it's coming, expect the teaser by Christmas!!!
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Tishwitch
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Finally David Duchovny returns to the X-Files... because when he left the show, so did my heart! (seriously I watched it religiously but when he dropped out, it just wasn't any good anymore)
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On December 10th, Chris Cater will begin shooing on the project in Vancouver from a script by him and longtime X-Files writer Frank Spotnitz. Also, Fox has claimed a release date for the movie, which is July 25th, 2008.
Sadly, Fox is keeping very, very quiet about the storyline for this film, but it is said to be a stand-alone story that reunites Fox Mulder and Dana Scully for yet another adventure.
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Tebor
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While I hate the WGA strike, I love that it forced X-Files 2 into production - Hurrah!
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So "I Want To Believe" has been confirmed as the subtitle for the upcoming X-Files movie, which is coming to American theaters on July 25, 2008.
I don't think that subtitle works. Chris Carter has already said that the movie will be a stand-alone monster story harkening back to the early days of the show and that the confusing, intricate alien invasion mythology of the show will not be explored. Mulder's "I Want To Believe" poster was always more representative of that aspect of the show than it was of the X-Files themselves. It represented his belief in a higher truth, his belief in afterlife, and his belief that his sister might still be alive as opposed to a belief that there were monsters lurking in backwoods of Oregon and in the bayous of Louisiana. It was not a knock-off of the Ghostbusters tagline "We're Ready To Believe You.", and to use it as such is somewhat insulting.
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Tebor
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The show was always about Truth vs. Science vs. Faith. Belief is treated different in all three fields. If the movie focuses on that premise as Carter alluded to, I think it's a fine subtitle. Besides, did "Fight the Future" really work either?
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Mitch
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coming out in like 2 1/2 weeks. I had no idea! Am I the only one that didn't know, or was this relatively unknown to all?
Anyone else excited about this?
I hope it's better than the other X Files movie (it was O.K., but didn't live up to the show)
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sidewaydriver
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I knew about that months ago and I don't even watch X-Files.
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Mitch
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I rarely go to movies or watch commercials on TV, so I miss knowing about lots of movies until someone tells me about them.
How did you hear about it? trailer at the movies? TV? I'm generally pretty clueless.
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sidewaydriver
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I happened to stumble upon it on the internet, I'm also out of touch with movies and TV
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kenthegod
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It looks bad. I'll see it, though.
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I'll probably see it even though I'm not thrilled that it'll just have a monster-of-the-week plot. It's understandable however. It wouldn't really make sense to continue the myth-arc after the series has already ended.
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Quantinuum
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Heh, I just watched X-Files the movie last weekend for the first time in a long time. I liked it a lot better this time.
If I remember properly, I remember seeing something about the second X-Files movie a few years ago...
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yeah there should be way more press for this movie than there is
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Avian
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1995 called. They want their shitty tv show back.
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Avian wrote: |
1995 called. They want their shitty tv show back. |
Blockbuster called. They want their movies back!
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Avian
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Burt Reynolds wrote: |
Avian wrote: |
1995 called. They want their shitty tv show back. |
Blockbuster called. They want their movies back!  |
lol que?
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Mitch
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I saw the movie, and liked it. If you already like X-Files, you should see the movie, thinking of it as an extra-long (in a good way) episode that doesn't continue the mythology, but has a couple of easter eggs. Works fine as a stand-alone movie (in terms of ease of understanding), but probably will only appeal to people who like the show. I give it 7.5 or 8/10.
If you don't like X-Files, you probably aren't reading this anyway. If you are, why waste your time?
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DarknessDeku
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Avian wrote: |
1995 called. They want their shitty tv show back. |
Maybe it's a 2008 revamp...
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Like the majority of movies are nowadays.
Very few filmmakers can figure out a working formula that entertains the masses thats truly original without being demolished by popular opinion or critical shame.
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FNJ
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I knew about it, but I didn't care.
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Gantrithor
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I didn't know about it, but I still don't care about it.
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Mitch
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It appears my enthusiasm would have been better expressed somewhere else.
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