Striking while the iron is red hot…

Updated on July 17, 2007 By Ken Begg 6 Comments

In an long-awaited announcment sure to galzanize the sci-fi fan community into an electric frenzy, David Duchoney has announced that producer Chris Carter has finished his script for the second X-Files movie, or a draft, maybe, or something; and that if all goes (unbelievably) well a film could go into production in November for a summer 2008 release.  Assuming, of course, that he and co-star Gillian Anderson can find time in their awesomely busy schedules.

For those that don’t remember, The X-Files was orginally a TV show about, uhm, bees and some black stuff that got into people’s eyes.  Something like that.

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  • I might be excited if someone other than Carter were writing the thing. While there were some good stand alone episodes even in the last season, the mythos episodes just got messier and more absurd as the seasons went on. I was less frustrated that the central mystery was never reveled so much as annoyed that there was no there there. The deeper you got the less there was.

  • I think the problem was that Carter really hadn’t worked out where “the mythology” was going, and when the show lasted a lot longer than anyone had orginially thought it would, he had to make it up as he went along. See also Twin Peaks.

    An ironic contrast is Firefly, where Whedon obviously had meticulously plotted out a five or six year mega-arc, only to have to cram several years’ worth of plot stuff into a single theatrical film.

  • Ericb

    The monster of the week episodes were pretty entertaining but eventually the show started taking itself way to seriously with that stupid conspiracy story ark. And would it have killed them to have Sculley be right at least one time just for some variety?

  • Wow, spot on. I also thought the show would be better if they had mixed non-fantasy episodes with the supernatural / sci-fi ones, just to keep viewers guessing. TV just can’t break out of that box, though. (See also my recent comments on how it would have been nice if Star Trek: The Next Generation did some episodes where there wasn’t an overblown danger element every time.)

    For what it’s worth, the movie supposedly will be a ‘stand-alone’ story, and not tie into the mythology, which is easily the best idea I’ve heard about it.

  • Hasimir Fenring

    it would have been nice if Star Trek: The Next Generation did some episodes where there wasn’t an overblown danger element every time

    TNG did some such episodes. Not a few of them were written by Ron D. Moore, currently executive producer (i.e., The Mah in Charge) of Battlestar Galactica.

  • BeckoningChasm

    I think Carter was really, really mad that none of the other shows he produced had any success at all. Looked at in that light, the final season of X-Files makes more sense (killing off characters left and right, for example).

    There were a few non-supernatural shows in there, mostly about serial killers.

    As for Scully being right once in a while, there was “Beyond the Sea” but the show really sabotaged her by showing the Monster of the Week at the beginning, so that her skepticism just looked like sheer mule-headedness.