For what it's worth, there is a grass roots movement out there to bring XFII to a theater near you:

http://slayathon.org/xfiles/movie_2.htm

The sample ad is a bit creative, but should definitely mention Scully by name. And while I'm not sure about sending money that could be going to charity off to a stranger to beg a Hollywood studio to make some big-budget film, I think the thought is well-intentioned...

Hi guys...

Just pulled out some of Jessica's old recaps and got all nostalgic. I miss you guys. How the hell is everybody? I just ordered the S8 DVDS on Netflix (since I have not the $122 to buy it... is that ridiculous or what?) and I realized I really haven't seen the show in awhile. I forgot a lot of it. So I'm kind of anxious to put in S8... something I never though would happen.

My thoughts on Flick Two... not gonna happen, for awhile, if ever. Sad, really.

(Hey Slip... how can you not be a Stalker yet? ;) Shoot me an email sometime.)

For whatever it's worth, I found this a few weeks ago after I went googling for any info on FTF2:



I got the above quote from this site: http://www.carterphile.com/News.html

That is a really old interview - it's been quoted time and time again, so, still not happening.

Also see this. A much more recent article on the state on the movie.

Like I said, not happening.

What?! No second movie?! THIS IS NOT HAPPENING! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I sorta read it as: could be happening, but without CC. That's a good thing surely? Come on, it could mean that. It could so. So. So. I can keep this up forever, you know.

Ah, always the voice of reason you are.

Using the game to gauge interest in a film is an interesting idea. But I'm not buying an xbox just for the game (if I didn't for Buffy, I'm not for X-files).

But then you could get the Buffy AND X-files games, right? Oh, just ignore me, I'm only trolling for some incentive to buy a game system myself...

Must... resist... temptation. Or insane troll logic. Oh, who am I kidding, this just might be the thing that gets me into gaming. Guldurnit.

I think at this point I'm content with there not ever being a movie. But still, I check this thread out for news. So maybe I'm also good at self-delusion.

sigh TBTB so completely ruined it for me. They should have ended the show when DD wanted out (grr) and then made a movie right after to finish the series. At this point, I don't even know if they should try to make another one.

Unless Flukie stars, of course.

I don't care if Carter writes it, directs it, and has a cameo in it. I want more X-files and I'll take whatever I can get.

Damn it. I'm sorry. That Carter stuff was uncalled for. But it may just clue you in to how badly I want this!

Let's recap. Skinner and Kersh may be dead. Mulder and Scully are on the run. Dogget and Moronica... who knows? And where the hell is Gibson? They couldn't give us some text at the end to tie it up neatly if they weren't giving us another movie? I need answers!!!!

Not that this show ever gives them. So that's too much to hope for.

Okay, I need Mulder and Scully - just once more. I've found other shows to love, but none as fervently as X-files. This is like The Prisoner's ending or something. That just can't be all there is.

Skinner is so not dead. He's in Vermont with John.

That's how I feel. That's why I want a second movie so badly. I love Mulder and Scully. I miss Mulder and Scully. I need Mulder and Scully. I swear, it could just be two hours of Mulder and Scully sitting in a room talking to each other, and I'd be happy. Well, not very happy. But I just miss them so much.

God, how pathetic am I?

If it were happening, it would have to have happened by now, and it would be all over the trades and it's not.

The thing is, CC doesn't need money and probably just wants to surf, FOX doesn't think it would make any more money, and it could COST a ton of money. No one wins here, business-wise.

Oh, Jess, I know you're right but I'm still hoping a Star Trek-style nostalgia bump for the X-Files will eventually bring our favorite agents back to the big screen. I realize it may take a few years and that I've said it before, but I just believe that FOX will not completely abandon a franchise that brought in more than a billion dollars. Especially once people forget Season 8 & 9 and have nothing but warm & fuzzy (warm & icky?) memories of the X-Files...



http://www.x-files.gr/edavid.htm

Sometimes I thank God for fanfic. It gives me resolution fan style. Fanfic will possibly get me through this drought... This drought that will never, ever, ever end. That makes me depressed. Now I've depressed myself. Drat.

I just hope it doesn't go the way Star Trek did, with everyone so old they had to wear wigs and corsets (and not in a good, kinky way).

Okay CC, put away the bong, stash the surfboard and start writing dammit!

I really have my doubts that we're ever going to get a second XF movie, at least not one starring DD and GA as Mulder and Scully. If it were going to be released anytime in 2004, or even the summer of 2005, it would at least have to be in pre-production by now (i.e. CC, DD and GA would all have had to have agreed to do it and blocked off a four- or five-month timeframe in which to film) and that hasn't happened. GA is in England. DD is busy with other projects. CC seems to have been abducted by aliens. And I just really don't see any major studio releasing a movie in 2006 (or later) that is a sequel to a movie that was released in 1998. They really shot themselves in the foot by doing the eighth and, especially, ninth season of the TV show. They should have ended with "Requiem" in May of 2000 and then gone onto a series of movies.

Something that bmills mentioned over on the Season 9 thread challenged my denial about a certain topic for a moment, and then got me to thinking: If another X-Files movie were made, and the Lone Gunmen were in it, in the flesh, alive, as if nothing had happened (which it didn't), would anyone complain? I, for one, would not even act as though it were out of the ordinary. Sometimes retcon is good.

I think the real question isn't "will there be another movie" , but "what wonderful way will they kill off Monica?"

Or: "how many more times can they kill off the major characters in the limited timeframe of a feature film?"

Hey, good idea, garli! In that situation, not only do we get more XF, we get Dead!Moronica. Seems like a win-win situation to me.

It's incredibly sad of me to get all hopeful that someone possibly posted "hey, I found out the movie is going to be made" everytime there's a new post here.

Man, Pusher, I hear you. Boy, do I hear you.

Hee! Me too. Exactly. Sigh.

Drat! Foiled again!

Me too. Every time this baby's at the top, I get all squealy. Then my hopes are dashed. And now I'm continuing the cycle of disappointment. Sorry, unlucky reader.

I've kind of already given up hope on the movie, but I still will read this thread every time it's bumped with some vague, um... hope-like-sensations that are not hope.

Can't they see crystal-clear from the very existence of this thread that they have a ready audience? An audience of AT LEAST...um...five? I mean! Come on! FIVE! PEOPLE! At LEAST!!

I wonder if I actually drove over to Fox (which would be a fair haul considering I live in New England) and waved nine dollars and fifty cents right under their noses, if that would sway them. Nine dollars! And fifty cents! And there's more where that came from! AT LEAST five times more! Does "five hundred percent" sound better? FIVE HUNDRED PERCENT MORE!!

I suppose it's too much to hope that they did The Quickest Movie Shoot Ever while GA was in L.A. doing Ellen's show. (You know, without a script, or a crew, or anything like that.) Though, wait, DD's in New York still, isn't he? Curses! I wonder if I could finagle some kind of wacky Parent Trap-like scenario to get them in the same vicinity, and then surreptitiously film them, maybe patch in some old dialogue...sigh. I think I might be a little bit crazy now.

Well, I only live about a mile from Nakatomi Plaza (aka FOX HQ), I'd be happy to go over there and wave your check for nine fifty.

Puh-leeze. They don't even have to be in the same city to shoot the movie. Make them shoot their lines separately and then photoshop them together. Or, you know, Mulder and Scully could spend the whole movie talking over the phone or something.

::delurking::

SIX! PEOPLE! At LEAST!!

I'd go see it twice, at least.

SEVEN! PEOPLE! At LEAST!!

eight. well, nine, because i'd probably drag some poor unwilling friend with me.

I think we could make it an even dozen if they'd throw in the popcorn

Lets not go crazy. They'd make half their money on concessions.

So how long was it after Star Trek ended that they made the first movie? You know, with history repeating itself and stuff.

I believe it was 10 years - STAR TREK was cancelled in 1969 and returned in 1979 to the big screen...let's see, XF went off the air in 2002, yes? If they waited 10 years it would be 2012 - the year of the alien colonization/invasion...

There would be something so very cool about that. Slightly corny, but still cool.

About the audience: there's me, too, so that makes it international! International, baby!

like in Die Hard? that's a real place?

i would go and see it, and take some friends, so i think we're in the 20s now. i'd see it twice if they showed it at the imax. especially if they gave DD some really sharp YSL suits and put GA in Jil Sander.

and, of course, as long as they didn't totally f*ck it up somehow. i mean, i'm excited about it too, but we have to be realistic. they could totally f*ck it up, and then how would we all feel? i think we have to be careful what we wish for.

I still hold to my original promise that I don't care what they do. I'm just hungry for more. Can they do another Simpsons cameo? Can they do any cameo? They could run through the back of the shots on random TV shows, maybe. Cause they're on the lam, see. They can get the doubles to do it. As long as we're led to believe it's M&S, it would be enough. Right?

Sorry. Got carried away. It should be noted that I should have been asleep three hours ago. Blame it on that.

As long as Chris Carter doesn't pull some stupid stunt like keeping Mulder and Scully separated for the entire movie (ok, a few phone scenes are fine), I'd go. Heck, I'd even pay $9.50, though I'd rather go to a matinee and spend the extra few bucks on a kid's popcorn combo.

So that gets us up to a couple dozen at least, right? To quote Arrested Development, "There are dozens of us! Dozens!"

apeygirl, if this is what comes of it, please feel free to get carried away anytime!

Ooooh! Dozens!! This is so exciting.

I should have mentioned that I, too, would see it AT LEAST twice, and would drag at least a friend or two with me. HOW CAN IT FAIL? I ASK you.

Scrambled Eggs, that is my fear. It would be just like CC to do a movie but keep Mulder and Scully separate the whole time, or have Scully having undergone an accidental body switch causing her to be played by Linda Lavin, or something like that. They would SO pull something like that, for absolutely no discernable reason other than that they hate us.

apeygirl, I would take any sort of cheesy network special/public service announcement/Old Navy ad/grainily bootlegged dinner-theater appearance at this point. Having them run through the backgrounds of other TV shows is a fabulous idea. Maybe they could do it with the action figures in front of a blue screen and then just drop it in all over the place. ER! Trading Spaces! Oprah! Heh.

Hey, and it would be a great PR trick. I can just see it: "Spot Mulder and Scully on your favourite TV show, and phone in to receive your free prize! (And in a tiny voice) Not including four-thousand-dollar fee to actually get the goddamned movie made."

Oooh, and on ER, one of them could be rushed in with some bizarre disease, like the alien virus, and then the other could yell a lot and use a cell phone, and then the hospital would get shut down... OK, now I'm having guest-appearance fantasies. I think I have to go lie down.

Yep. They used Fox Plaza as Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard. It's Fox's HQ and right next door to the Fox studio lot.

OT item deleted. Apologies, Jessica.

I'd buy FTF II for my personal library and everything. I might even by the soundtrack again (both versions! ;).

The Die Hard stuff is off topic, guys. Take it to email, please.

Thank you!

My bad.

Speaking of the movie soundtrack--I bought a version of it (the actual soundtrack, not the score) in the UK that was slightly different than the US version. Any thoughts on this?

And any predictions as to who will be on the soundtrack of the next (totally never going to happen) movie?

I must say I love the soundtrack - that version of Crystal Ship gets me everytime.

What are the main differences Slip?

I want a Madge/Brit-bot duet on the next soundtrack. It'll symbolize the true, deep and abiding love Monica has for Dearest Dana.

I'd need to dig out my soundtrack to see who released it but I'd guess the UK/US differences lay in perhaps an artist having a dealing with the UK distributor, or a certain artist being better known in the UK than the US. Did the UK version feature all of the US version plus something else, or was there a specific swap out of one artist for another?

Artist I'd like to see on a second flick soundtrack: Switchfoot -- really digging their CD, which I was moved to buy after Sci-Fi Channel used one of its songs for an extended 04 trailer.

BTW, more signs it'll be a while -- I think I read that Rob Bowman is lined up for the Elektra flick, whch starts shooting this spring.