First look: ‘X-Files’ returns to theaters, minus alien mythology
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES – 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.”

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Congratulations to David on his Golden Globe win for Californication!!!!

Since the show was not broadcast due to the Writer’s Strike, you can re-visit his last Golden Globe win in 1997 for his role as Agent Mulder in The X-Files: Video Clip and Photos.

Yeah David!

The Stalkerazzi website FlyNet has been hanging around the set of the new X-Files movie and posted a video clip today. You can watch it here.

The first photos from the set of the new X-Files move have been posted here at FlyNetOnline.

From Coming Soon:

After years of David
Duchovny talking about the sequel, and almost 10 years after the first
feature, 20th Century is finally ready to start production on The X Files 2
with the actor in place to reprise his role of Special Agent Fox
Mulder. Gillian Anderson is also expected to be back on board to play
Special Agent Dana Scully.

Shooting is scheduled to begin on December 10 in Vancouver under the
direction of series creator Chris Carter. Carter and Frank Spotnitz
wrote the script.

The studio is referring to the film in casting breakdowns as “Done One.”

The popular series ran on Fox from 1993 to 2002. Rob Bowman directed the first feature, which hit theaters on June 19, 1998.

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One wonders if an agent calling up an actor has ever said, ? ?
S The good news is that you have a job on a TV series and the network expects it to run for years. The bad news is that after it? ? !” s over you will probably never work again.? ? ? David Duchovny is still working, but in a hotel room in New York he admits that at the end of The X-Files in 2002 he began to think about making funny movies so he could move as far as possible from his character in that series, Fox Mulder.

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S I wanted to do comedies only because comedy seemed to be antithetical to The X-Files. First I thought, ? ? ? I will make people forget that,? ? !” but then I thought, ? ? ? How could they forget that? It was a decade. You don? ? !” t forget a decade.? ? !” I can? ? !” t think of anything bigger in terms of television. People talk about Star Trek, but it was only on for three years and then created as nostalgia on reruns. At some point I realized that it is what it is, and it is probably unlikely that I will ever do anything as big as that, because I don? ? !” t think that there can be anything as culturally pervasive as the show or that character. Certainly not a movie character, because this was part of the culture. There is nothing that I can think of that would approach that kind of magnitude. So at some point I started choosing things because I liked them or they challenged me.? ? ?

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