Thursday
31Jul2008
Chris Carter Still Wants to Believe in More 'X-Files' Movies
Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 11:54PM
Though he may have trouble getting the money to make it
after the lackluster production of
The X-Files: I Want to Believe,
Chris Carter, the creator of the series and the
director of the new film,
tells IGN he's already putting together ideas
for a third movie.
"We love the alien storyline too, but we felt coming back this time -- when a story like this was not only true to the series but allows us to focus on Mulder and Scully more, you don't have to deal with all the complications in the alien storyline. But if there were to be more films -- and we're not at all taking it for granted that there will be -- but if there were that's something we would definitely want to get back too...There's a date in the X-Files mythology -- 2012 -- that is very important. We'd certainly love to do something with that!"The reference to 2012 has specific meaning to fans of the show; 12.12.12 is when the alien invasion is supposed to happen in Mulder and Scully's world. And yes, that would probably bring out more casual viewers of the show than this current standalone project has. I wouldn't get my hopes up for a third film if I were, and if your hopes were already up, I'd do something to bring them back down. Isn't thinking about about baseball and nuns supposed to do that? Wait...that's for something else.
Reader Comments (4)
Chris Carter didn't direct the first X-Files movie. Rob Bowman did.
Ah, thank you. Good catch...I'm changing it as we speak.
No worries. (Actually, given the stodgy and irregular pacing of "I Want To Believe", Bowman's touch could only have helped...)
I believe the alien invasion is supposed to happen on December 22, 2012 -- 12-22-12 -- and not December 12th. *pushes glasses back to bridge of nose*