X-Files 2

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Pileggi in Next X-Files Movie

If you can believe some leaked call sheets from the set of the next X-Files movies then actor Mitch Pileggi, who played FBI boss Walter Skinner for 82 episodes of the famous television series, will be returning to the role that made him a household name.

Skinner was one of those dubious characters in the 9 year series that always left you wondering if he was for or against Mulder and Scully in their endeavor to uncover alien and not-so-alien conspiracies.

Pileggi has been a recurring character for the last three seasons of "Stargate: Atlantis."

[Rico]

Cool news.  Skinner was a good character.

[jedijeff]

That is cool that the are bringing back some of the other Characters in the series.

[Geekyfanboy]

Carter Offers X-Files Hints

Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming second movie will be a stand-alone story that represents the best of the series.

"This movie takes some of the most, I think, essential themes of The X-Files and incorporates them and puts them to the test," Carter said in a group interview at WonderCon in San Francisco on Feb. 23. "I think that for me, so much of The X-Files was about skepticism, but it was also about faith, and I think that plays a big part of this movie."

The plotline of the as-yet-unnamed sequel remains a big secret--so much so that neither Carter nor producer/writer Frank Spotnitz would confirm or deny that spy photos of a werewolf head from the set were intentionally bogus or not.

But Spotnitz, speaking alongside Carter, allowed that the sequel will be "a stand-alone, scary movie. Scary, exciting movie. But it's also very much about these characters, very personal. A romantic, I think, emotional story."

Footage from the sequel was unveiled at WonderCon and showed the character played by Billy Connolly (whom Carter would only identify as a man with really long hair) and Amanda Peet, who has been identified as an FBI special agent in charge who goes missing.

"We came up with the story about five years ago, and we liked it, and pitched it because Fox had asked us to come up with something," Carter said. Protracted negotiations and legal "entanglements" delayed the sequel's start, he added. "So when we got the call from Fox that said, 'Make this movie, it's either now or never,' we said, 'OK, let's dust off that old story.' And that's what we did. We dusted off that old story, and we saw that it needed work. So we got back to work on it."

The sequel mirrors the passage of real time since the end of Fox's The X-Files TV show. "The truth is, after all that time, Mulder and Scully were different people, and we were different people, so the 'X-File' we came up with five years ago is still the X-File in the movie, but their personal lives--the state of their relationship, all those things--have changed over time, and that was kind of interesting," Spotnitz said. "To not only think about them after all this time, but, really, us as writers and what mattered to us and what we wanted to say in this movie [has also changed]." The X-Files sequel is still in production in Vancouver, Canada, with an eye to a July 25 release. --Patrick Lee, News Editor

[Rico]

Check it out guys & ladies....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is7F0IgRj4g

[Geekyfanboy]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was awesome... I can't wait.

[Geekyfanboy]

X-Files 2 Wraps In Canada

Production wrapped on March 13 in Vancouver, Canada, on the as-yet-untitled X-Files sequel movie, with star David Duchovny telling reporters that the crew staged the unauthorized Web photos of Mulder (Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) kissing, the Canadian National Post newspaper reported.

"We've had lots of paparazzi," writer-director Chris Carter told a post-wrap news conference. "In Langley [British Columbia] a couple of days ago, a black SUV pulled up on the side of the road and there was a long lens pointed at us."

The next day, pictures of Duchovny and Anderson, locked in a full-on kiss as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, appeared on Internet fan sites.

"We staged that," Duchovny said at the news conference.

Duchovny finished work earlier this week and was catching a plane to Los Angeles. The rest of the crew were to finish by week's end.

The movie is a stand-alone story unconnected to the series' ongoing conspiracy thread, but beyond that they're not saying much. The X-Files movie is slated to open July 25.

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X-Files Creator Talks About the New Film

"The X-Files" creator Chris Carter gave out a little information about the next film in the franchise at the recent William S. Paley Television Festival held yesterday in LA.

Also on hand was the film's co-writer/creator Frank Spotnitz. Both men stated that, most important to fans of the series, that even though this would be an, as-yet-untitled, stand alone movie, it will follow closely established canon and mythos set in the television show's nine year history.

Other bits of news is moviegoers will finally learn the fate of baby William, the son of Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson). If you can remember back that far, William was secretly given up for adoption in the television show's final season in order to keep it safe from those who would wish to exploit the child for nefarious means.

Spotnitz revealed that the film will continue the story of Mulder and Scully six years after the events in the show's 2002 finale.

"In the movie, we wanted it to work for non-fans as well as fans," Spotnitz said. "But we were determined for the fans to honor all the work that these guys did on the series and all the love that people had for the show over the years. And so I think you'll see that, while this not a mythology movie, it's true to everything that's come before. It's true to Mulder and Scully, who they are, where they would be at this point in their lives and all of the experiences that they've had."

"It's the story we wanted to do," Carter added. "We went to the length of working out the story [a while back]. And then there was this lawsuit that got in the way. And years went by. ... [Then] I got a call from my lawyers — 'The lawsuit's been resolved.' 'Great!' And then the phone is ringing. Fox is like, 'Let's make a movie!' 'Great!'"

"And it was the best thing that could have happened," Carter said. "Because I think that the story that we came up with now, the movie we just did, is superior to the story that we had [created back then]. And it made us work harder."

One other item of interest brought up at the panel was Carter's revelation that he is seriously considering a big screen feature about his other highly popular television series, "Millennium," which starred fan favorite Lance Henriksen.

"We've talked about that over the years," Carter said. "Lance would love to do it. I don't know if it would ever get done. It's a long shot. It would be fun. I have ideas about how to do it."

The next X-Files movie is set to open in theaters on July 25, 2008.

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X-Files Trailer Previewed

Chris Carter, who co-wrote and directed the upcoming X-Files sequel film, offered fans a glimpse at a rough cut of the trailer for the movie, which featured the new tagline "Believe Again."

Screened at the William S. Paley Television festival in Hollywood on March 26, the trailer featured a bit of dialogue between Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson):

Mulder: "Scully. I need you on this with me."

Scully: "I know. That's what scares me."

It featured quick cuts of footage of uniformed men searching a snowfield, led by a white-haired man played by Billy Connolly; someone dragging a body; Mulder in a car being hit by another vehicle; a glimpse of cast member Callum Keith Rennie; Scully hitting someone over the head with a blunt object; the discovery of a body buried in ice; and other images, some of which were also previewed at WonderCon in San Francisco last month.

The trailer ends with a voiceover bit of dialogue between Connolly's character and Mulder as viewers see an image of Mulder and Scully climbing out of a helicopter:

Connolly's voice: "Do you believe in these kind of things?"

Mulder's voice: "Let's just say I want to believe."

The finished trailer will debut in movie theaters along with Iron Man on May 2, a Fox spokesman told SCI FI Wire. The second as-yet-untitled X-Files movie opens July 25. --Patrick Lee, News Editor

[Locutus]

" ... even though this would be an, as-yet-untitled, stand alone movie, it will follow closely established canon and mythos set in the television show’s nine year history."

There was established canon??

(I watched the show, I know what the canon was SUPPOSED to be. But the truth is they made it up as they went along, by their own admission, and the show holds together about as well as a Tijuana rug.)

Of course, I will be seeing the film, but lets have no more of this "established canon" tomfoolery.

[Geekyfanboy]

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X-Files DVDs Tied To Sequel

Fox Home Entertainment is releasing The X-Files: Revelations on July 8, a new DVD compilation of episodes of the hit TV series related to the theatrical release of the upcoming second X-Files movie on July 25.

The two-disc DVD collection features eight episodes selected by series creator Chris Carter, each of which includes an introduction by Carter and producer Frank Spotnitz saying why it was chosen and how it relates to the as-yet-untitled sequel film.

The DVD set will also feature the February WonderCon panel session with Carter and Spotnitz and stars David Duchovny (Fox Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully) in their first fan convention appearance together in several years.

The eight episodes, which were previously released as part of the show's various season box sets, are "Pilot," "Beyond the Sea," "The Host," "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," "Memento Mori," "The Post-Modern Prometheus," "Bad Blood" and "Milagro."

The DVD set also features the sequel's teaser trailer and a free Hollywood Movie Money ticket (valued at $8.50) for the sequel.

The X-Files: Revelations will carry a suggested retail price of $22.98.

[Geekyfanboy]

Three more photos released.. check them out.

[jedijeff]

Cool Pics Kenny, Agent Scully looks great in them. Really looking forward to the movie.

[Geekyfanboy]

`X-Files' movie title is out there: `I Want to Believe'

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

LOS ANGELES - The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title.

The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be called "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," Chris Carter, the series' creator and the movie's director and co-writer, told The Associated Press.

Distributor 20th Century Fox signed off on the title Wednesday.

The title is a familiar phrase for fans of the series that starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents chasing after aliens and supernatural happenings. "I Want to Believe" was the slogan on a poster Duchovny's UFO-obsessed agent Fox Mulder had hanging in the cluttered basement office where he and Anderson's Dana Scully worked.

"It's a natural title," Carter said in a telephone interview Tuesday during a break from editing the film. "It's a story that involves the difficulties in mediating faith and science. `I Want to Believe.' It really does suggest Mulder's struggle with his faith."

"I Want to Believe" comes 10 years after the first film and six years after the finale of the series, whose opening credits for much of its nine-year run featured the catch-phrase "the truth is out there."

Due in theaters July 25, the movie will not deal with aliens or the intricate mythology about interaction between humans and extraterrestrials that the show built up over the years, Carter said.

Instead, it casts Mulder and Scully into a stand-alone, earth-bound story aimed at both serious "X-Files" fans and newcomers, he said.

"It has struck me over the last several years talking to college-age kids that a lot of them really don't know the show or haven't seen it," Carter said. "If you're 20 years old now, the show started when you were 4. It was probably too scary for you or your parents wouldn't let you watch it. So there's a whole new audience that might have liked the show. This was made to, I would call it, satisfy everyone."

Hardcore fans need not worry that the movie will be going back to square one, though, Carter said. The movie will be true to the spirit of the show and everything Mulder and Scully went through, he said.

"The reason we're even making the movie is for the rabid fans, so we don't want to insult them by having to take them back through the concept again," Carter said.

Carter said he settled on "I Want to Believe" from the time he and co-writer Frank Spotnitz started on the screenplay. It took so long to go public with it because studio executives wanted to make sure it was a marketable title, he said.

The filmmakers have kept the story tightly under wraps to prevent plot spoilers from leaking on the Internet, a phenomenon that barely existed when the first movie came out in 1998.

"We went to almost comical lengths to keep the story a secret," Carter said. "That included allowing only the key crew members to read the script, and they had to read it in a room that had video cameras trained on them. It was a new experience."