One More Round for Mulder and Scully?

Few thuds at the box office have seemed resounding this year than The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Sure, it's been nearly a decade since the show left the air, but the sequel made $130 million less around the world than its predecessor ($67 million) and made $10 million less in the United States during its entire run than the first X-Files movie made in its opening weekend.Having said that, the movie made money internationally, and now that the DVD is coming out on Tuesday, it may not have been the big disaster we thought, although audiences sure didn't clamor for it in the U.S. when it was in theaters.So logically, there's talk of another movie. Writer-producer Frank Spotnitz told MovieWeb where the series would have to go if given another chandce. "If we were to make one more feature," said Spotnitz, "I think we would definitely have to deal with alien colonization." "There's a date that looms very important in X-Files mythology, which is December 2012," the producer explained. "I think after the DVD comes out, the studio will decide whether they want to roll the dice on another X-Files feature."By "another," Spotnitz really means "final." "It certainly would be designed to be the period on the sentence." I wonder if it might not serve the franchise better in some ways if it came back for a four- or six-episode run on Fox in 2012, rather than as a movie. This is the one area Mulder and Scully really need to explore if they're going to be asked to do anything else, and I think you owe it to the fans of the show to give them an opportunity to see it for free. It was obvious that David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson really enjoyed making the second film, so I don't think the issue would be getting them signed back up if creator Chris Carter really wants to do it. I just happen to believe that the better option might be to give The X-Files a mini-series run on the network instead of another film.

Comments

[Lengthy Johnson]

Maybe they should try using a script and a story for the next film.

I tried watching X-Files I want to Believe on DVD the other day. I fell asleep twice and finally turned it off at the beginning of the third act.

I have no interest at all in how it ended. It is sufficient that it did.