X-Files 2: SIGN the petition!

[xfan2012]

Hi!<br /><br />Do you want another X-Files movie ASAP?<br />So please SIGN the petition at:<br /><br />http://www.xf2themovie.com<br /><br />4,600 signatures today... And yours? <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />XFan2012<br />

 

[serak_the_preparer]

The petition must have worked.<br /><br />Spotnitz Talks "X-Files 2" by Garth Franklin (Dark Horizons)<br /><br />May 21st, 2006<br /><br /><i>Frank Spotnitz confirmed to Sci-Fi Wire this week that he has signed on to help write the next movie based on the hit series "The X-Files", but that the new movie won't deal with the show's byzantine conspiracy arc.<br /><br />"There's still a very good chance that we will all do another X-Files movie. David, Gillian and I, and even Chris Carter, all have deals in place, and once the legal issues are over with, we will go on with it. I'm hoping it will get resolved soon" said Spotnitz who helped create much of the show's mythological arc.<br /><br />Although the script isn't written, the idea is already developed and Fox likes the idea...</i><br /><br />Sounds like it's a 'go' whenever the stars align properly for all the participants. Which hopefully won't be too long.

 

[spacefire]

wait, there was an X-Files movie already?<br /><br /><br /><br />I can't believe what people saw in that show. I couldn't feel for the characters and their wooden acting.<br />Or is that how FBI agents talk all the time? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>http://asteroid-invasion.blogspot.com</p><p>http://www.solvengineer.com/asteroid-invasion.html </p><p> </p> </div>

 

[border_ruffian]

What are the legal issues that need to be dealth with?<br />

 

[border_ruffian]

X-Files: Fight the Future came out in 1998.<br /><br />In the movie Mulder says "Scully" a million times, and Scully says "Mulder" about two million times.<br /><br />

 

[serak_the_preparer]

<i>What are the legal issues...?</i><br /><br />Don't really know, but if I had to guess I would say it's one of the following:<br /><br />(1) What Spotnitz says immediately before his 'legal issues' remark: 'David, Gillian and I, and even Chris Carter, all have deals in place...';<br /><br />(2) Whether or not to take it up a notch in the second movie and contractually obligate Mulder to say 'Scully' two million times and Scully to say 'Mulder' four million times.<br /><br />Don't expect any progress on a new X-Files movie until these knotty legal problems are resolved.

 

[border_ruffian]

LOL<br /><br />I'm a big fan, but why do they have to keep saying each other's name to each other?

 

[serak_the_preparer]

Maybe it's because the X-Files milieu is ultimately the stuff of pure romance? And, at its heart, a science fantasy soap opera ultimately resting on a glacially paced love-story percolating just under the surface?<br /><br />Corny as it sounds, the heavy use of their last names erodes the power of those names to maintain a professional distance between the two. And is similar to, say, the use of 'As you wish' by the hero in <i>The Princess Bride</i> as a term of address for the princess, the real meaning of which turns out to be 'I love you.' In other words, a reminder of the bond and the intimacy existing between them. One which cuts both ways, since it still ostensibly keeps them at arm's length from one another (but, of course, not really).<br /><br />Just an off-the-cuff hypothesis, but maybe there's something to it?

 

[border_ruffian]

That is so true.<br /><br />I noticed, though, that sometimes when they find themselves in a really, really, bad situation and their lives are in danger or something, they do call each other Fox and Dana. It's like in the face of death, they are capable of showing they are more than professional FBI partners. Their relationship is more than that. <br /><br />Which it is!<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[dragon04]

<font color="yellow">I noticed, though, that sometimes when they find themselves in a really, really, bad situation and their lives are in danger or something, they do call each other Fox and Dana. It's like in the face of death, they are capable of showing they are more than professional FBI partners. Their relationship is more than that.</font><br /><br />Very much like the rigid, mentally disciplined Spock in certain episodes of ST when he was obviously very relieved to see his Captain alive, or alerting him to danger.<br /><br />It showed that even a Vulcan (well, half Vulcan) valued friendship underneath the cool, collected and professional surface, and that indeed a bond existed.<br /><br />I loved the X-Files. Scully was Mulder's Spock. To some degree, she kept him grounded. To some degree, Mulder opened her clinical mind to less than clinical realities.<br /><br />It was a great lesson to us all that even when you feel unsure that you can trust anyone that if you're lucky, you can have refuge through at least one person.<br /><br />It wasn't the "freak of the week" a la Darren McGavin's Night Stalker series that won me over. It was the relentless pursuit of the truth that did.<br /><br />Mulder was frequently Quixotic. Although his monsters were not windmills.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"2012.. Year of the Dragon!! Get on the Dragon Wagon!".</em> </div>

 

[tom_hobbes]

Petition signed. <br /><br />Just saw your post Serak. Cool, I hope they go through with it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>

 

[border_ruffian]

So true.<br /><br />I miss the X-Files, too. Even when Mulder left I still watched it (unlike some fans who got real pissed off about it); I actually got used to Agent Doggett. The only thing I didn't like was when they killed off The Lone Gunmen. The decision to do that didn't make sense to me. It made me sad because if there's going to be a new X-Files (in theaters or on TV), then The Lone Gunmen won't be in it. <br /><br />There's a lot of ways to get around that, of course. We're in the world of sci-fi after all. <br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />

 

[serak_the_preparer]

Inspired by something out in the real world, went looking and found this:<br /><br />Hello from Gillian! (The Official Gillian Anderson Website)<br /><br />August 6, 2006<br /><br /><i>And as far as the X-F movie? I have no f****** clue. I think there's still a law suit, as far as I know the script has not been written, and as much as we all want it to take place as soon as possible, AND YES THAT INCLUDES ME, AND ALWAYS HAS, SO STOP WITH THE NONSENSE! It is out of my hands. Completely. Write to Fox guys, tell them to make it happen!</i><br /><br />Flynn's comment here pretty well sums up Fox's relationship with its children. People signing up with Fox to produce shows for them should be careful to include some version of an 'emancipation of a minor' clause in their contracts.<br /><br />So thanks to XFan2012, Tom_Hobbes and anyone else who signed the petition. 'Fox likes the idea,' apparently, but perhaps not yet enough to commit to it? Pretty much everyone seems on board, except possibly the studio.

 

[1lurker]

Petition signed.

 

[yevaud]

<i>The Lone Gunmen won't be in it. </i><br /><br />And how do you know that he's really dead? <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><br /><br />Petition signed. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

As long as they don't show bees pollinating corn in this movie . . . <br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[tom_hobbes]

What've you got against hive creatures anyway? Or corn for that matter? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

I have nothing per se against the enhived (in fact, stages of the vogonite reproductive cycle are conducted in a hive-like environment) but corn is self-pollinating, sans bees, and the portrayal of this error in the first movie caused quite a laugh in the movie theater at precisely the time the director of the movie did not intend one.<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

Ah, but they're genetically engineered Bees who desire Corn, regardless of what the Corn wishes.<br /><br />Oh, those nefarious aliens. Where's Cancer-Man when you need him? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[tom_hobbes]

<img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>

 

[lsbd]

At least they are not genetically engineered Bee Gees. Then we'd all be in deep Kimchee

 

[yevaud]

An alien Barry Gibb ruling us all with an iron fist and shrill vocals?<br /><br />I'd nuke my own home neighborhood first. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[tom_hobbes]

This is a public forum dammit! If terrorists kidnap the remaining Bee Gee’s to produce mutant clones, I’m holding you personally responsible! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

(In the voice of Herve' Villachaiev):<br /><br />"Bass, Bass, the Bee Gees, the Bee Gees." <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[thebigcat]

NO<br /><br />NO<br /><br />NO<br /><br />NO<br /><br />Not just "no" but a loud emphatic "NO"<br /><br />I'm not going to sign the petition, I hope they don't make the damn thing, and if they do I won't be seeing it.<br /><br />Especially if they let Robert Patrick anywhere near the set. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>