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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 had really good fun doing this movie -- we have high hopes for it and we just want people to like it," says Carter. If people do want to come and see it we'll certainly be talking about another movie."

So far, of course, people haven't come to see it; the movie made a paltry $10 million in its debut last weekend. But supposing it finds an audience overseas or on home video, Carter is open to the idea of resurrecting the alien stories that marked the show's successful run on Fox.

"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.