'The X-Files' reboot in the works

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'The X-Files' reboot in the works
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First posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 09:10 AM EST | Updated: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 09:14 AM EST
Studio bosses have confirmed they are in talks to reboot cult TV drama The X-Files, with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson set to return as agents Mulder and Scully.

Reports recently surfaced that U.S. network chiefs at Fox are looking to bring back the supernatural programme for a new instalment on the small screen, and over the weekend, Fox TV Group chairman Gary Newman confirmed the rumours at the Television Critics Association's Winter Press Tour, saying he is "hopeful" about the outcome.

Fellow network executive Dana Walden added that conversations about the potential show have mainly been about aligning schedules with the three key players of the series, since the reboot would have creator Chris Carter back at the helm, along with Duchovny and Anderson.

Walden added that their discussions have not included what the new series will be about.

The X-Files ended its nine-season run in 2002, and spawned two successful feature films.
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[eh1eh]

A little long in the tooth. They didn't have the sense to pack up when Spooky left and really taxed the brand.
I'm a big fan and will watch this but remain skeptical it can meet its former glory.
I want to believe.

 

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A little long in the tooth. They didn't have the sense to pack up when Spooky left and really taxed the brand.
I'm a big fan and will watch this but remain skeptical it can meet its former glory.
I want to believe.

me too.

 

[WLDB]

Id rather a decent end to the original one. That last movie was not something to go out on.

 

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David Duchovny 'thrilled' about X-Files reboot
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First posted: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 06:59 PM EST | Updated: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 07:06 PM EST
David Duchovny is "happy and excited" to return to work on his cult TV show The X-Files after network bosses confirmed they are in talks to reboot it.
The sci-fi series, which spawned two spin-off movies, ended in 2002 after nine seasons on air, and over the weekend, Fox TV Group chairman Gary Newman revealed he is hoping to bring it back to TV.
Duchovny, who played FBI agent Fox Mulder opposite Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, has now revealed he is "more than happy and excited to bring it back and do it again".
However, the 54-year-old actor hopes the show will be given a limited run rather than a full 20-episode season, telling USA Today, "I'm assuming that it will happen sooner rather than later now. We'll see what form, how many (episodes). Certainly I can't nor would I be interested in doing a full season. It will be in some kind of limited form. We're all old, we don't have the energy for a full season."
David Duchovny 'thrilled' about X-Files reboot | TV | Entertainment | Toronto Su
I want a full season.

 

[WLDB]

Well if they are both coming back its not a reboot, its a continuation. That can be ok.

 

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Could an 'X-Files' reboot be a good idea?

By Jim Slotek, QMI Agency
First posted: Thursday, January 22, 2015 05:13 PM EST | Updated: Thursday, January 22, 2015 06:01 PM EST
Yes, I want to believe. But is The X-Files reboot a good idea? It depends how you define “reboot.”
The project, floated as a possibility by Fox at the Winter Television Critics Association press tour, appears to have the original Mulder and Scully – David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson – lined up, and the full participation of creator Chris Carter (although Duchovny has hinted he’ll take part only if it’s a short series).
If it simply picks up where the original series left off (or where the “meh” movies did), it isn’t really a reboot. It’s a revival, like Arrested Development on Netflix.
But a true reboot – like the one J.J. Abrams pulled off on Star Trek – would be more than welcome.
Burn the last few seasons or more. Or start from the beginning. People may have trouble remembering this after a dozen years, but The X-Files preceded Lost as a series that took an intriguing and even brilliant premise and totally lost control of its narrative.
After nine years of larding on the conspiracies, we had infectious alien “black oil,” Martian microbes in human DNA, mind-reading alien hybrid prodigies, clones of Mulder’s abducted sister, Scully’s possibly-alien baby, alien super-soldiers, secret anti-alien vaccines, and stuff going on in the Arctic.
The more complicated the story got, the lower the ratings – again, a phenomenon repeated a few years later by Lost. In the pre-binge-watching era, when you lost viewers for a week or two, they seldom came back.
For the 2002 finale, Chris Carter did his best to tie it all together, writing a contrived “clips” episode set around the trial of Agent Mulder. It came off like that episode of The Simpsons where Milhous tries to explain the disappearance of everybody’s parents using a flowchart attributing it to “the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people – under the supervision of the reverse vampires.”
I will give Chris Carter this, though. In that final 2002 episode, Cancer Man revealed the date of the eventual alien invasion as Dec. 22, 2012. Yep, little known fact. Carter was years ahead of the curve in being wrong about the Mayan Calendar!
As you might guess, I was more a fan of the stand-alone monster-of-the-week episodes, a reflection of Carter’s original inspiration for The X-Files – the ‘70s series The Night Stalker starring Darren McGavin. Give me the Fluke Man, the liver-eating shape-shifter Eugene Tooms, the demon-channeling Luther Lee Boggs (played brilliantly by Brad Dourif), the Bat Creature, the Disease Eater and others. (Thumbs down to the Chupacabra episode that didn’t actually have a Chupacabra in it.)
Give me all those things in the reboot, Chris Carter. And give me Cancer Man and Alex Krycek and The Lone Gunmen. But for Pete’s sake, let’s start over with the alien invasion – maybe with the abduction of Mulder’s sister which started the whole thing. And keep the plot going straight ahead from there.
And if you lose track of the conspiracy again due to multiple writers taking it in multiple directions, fess up. Don’t claim it was part of your plan all along.
Twitter: @jimslotek
jim.slotek@sunmedia.ca
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