The long-awaited big-screen reunion of special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully is just a month away and X-Philes are in a frenzy to know what happens next. Some fans braved 100-degree temperatures in Los Angeles this past weekend to catch a short glimpse of the film and to interact with the stars and producers of the upcoming film.
SciFi Wire featured a report on the event, which showed some footage from the upcoming film, but also kept vital elements of the top-secret screenplay under wraps as well.
Some of what was said is SPOILER worth and in the interest of protecting those fans who don’t want to know the truth until they see it for themselves, the SPOILER information will be after the jump…
While most of the main plot is still being kept under wraps, fans did get to see a hint of the character Billy Connolly will play in the upcoming movie. Connolly plays plays a religious man named Father Joe who helps the agents in their quest, which takes place, in part, in a snowfield.
X-Files creator and co-writer of the film Chris Carter hinted the film will offer some resolution to some of the bigger issues from the popular television series. Carter’s co-writer Frank Spotnitz offered that “shippers” (fans who want Mulder and Scully to be together romantically) will be “happy” with the film.
What may be the biggest bomb-shell to come in the new movie is that Mulder insists that after all this time he is still looking for his long lost sister Samantha and doesn’t think she is dead. Fans may recall that in season seven, a two-part story was supposed to have brought closure to the Samantha storyline.
X-Files: I Want to Believe opens July 24.
I’ll do my small part and go see this in the theaters – anything in order get Gillian Anderson back on the screen.
“Shippers”?? We don’t need no stinkin’ “shippers”!
do non shippers want mulder and scully to be with other people? i don’t understand these people. of course they’re in love with each other.