‘X-Files’ Film Sequel Getting Underway
The Second Movie Will Include the Original Lead Cast, Creator, and Writer
X-Files fans, put your conspiracy caps back on, because Scully and Mulder are returning to the silver screen. Anyone who loves the 1993–2002 series that helped redefine horror and sci-fi television as we know it is probably already aware that a follow-up to the popular 1998 movie The X-Files: Fight the Future has been contemplated for ages. At one point, it seemed like the feature would actually get in motion just last year. That is, until Gillian Anderson—also known as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully—became involved in a side project having a second child, a boy named Oscar born last November, and series creator Chris Carter remained embroiled in a legal battle with 20th Century Fox over royalties from syndication of the series.
Apparently, the recent settlement of the royalty lawsuit has put Carter and Fox back in planning mode, and both Anderson and costar David Duchovny, who played skeptical Scully’s open-minded partner FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, have been revealing as much in various interviews. According to the details they’ve shared, the next film will likely begin production in or before 2008, and it will avoid any hints of the pervasive government and alien conspiracies that underlaid much of the original series. In addition, the script will be helmed by Carter and Frank Spotnitz, an executive producer, writer, and occasional director of the earlier series and its two spinoffs, 1996′s Millennium and 2001′s The Lone Gunmen. These developments are some of the best news I’ve heard yet this year, and I count myself among the many, many fans eagerly anticipating the final product.
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