Could there be a third installment of “The X-Files” on the big-screen? Writer and producer Frank Spotnitz says that while this summer’s “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” wasn’t a blockbuster hit, that the case may not be closed on a third installment featuring Mulder and Scully.
“There’s a date that looms very important in ‘X-Files’ mythology, which is December 2012,” Spotnitz teased.
“If we were to make one more feature, I think we would definitely have to deal with alien colonization,” Spotnitz told MovieWeb. “I honestly think that’s the movie that most non-hardcore X-Files fans, as well as a lot of hardcore ‘X-Files’ fans are dying to see. Obviously, I think Chris has had ideas about that from the very beginning when he dreamt up this show, 16 years ago.”
Spotnitz said this summer’s movie had the dubious honor of opening a week after “The Dark Knight” which probably hurt the box-office for “I Want to Believe.”
“I don’t think anybody could’ve anticipated that was going to be such a huge, historic phenomenon,” Spotnitz said. “To be a dark scary movie coming out the week after The Dark Knight was not the best timing. I think there’s life in the franchise still. I think these are great characters.”
Spotnitz said 20th Century Fox hasn’t made a firm decision either way on another movie and that a lot of the future of the franchise may depend on DVD and Blu-Ray sales. The movie hits both formats on December 2.
Should X-Philes buy enough DVDs and Blu Rays, Spotnitz says he thinks the next movie would be the last from “The X-Files” franchise.
“It certainly would be designed to be the period on the sentence,” he said.
So fans who want to see more, may want to place their orders now on Amazon. You can buy a one disc or three disc DVD set, or a two disc Blu-Ray set or the Blu-Ray set of both “X-Files” movies.
Wow, I was hopeing there would eventually be a mythology based movie. However I didn’t have high hopes after the somewhat disapointing movie. In truth I understand why they didn’t do a mythogy based movie ten years after the first movie so my hope was that this would be a way to re-introduce the world to The X-Files first. But since it didn’t make alot of money I didn’t think it would actually happen so this is really good news.
Now they just have to find a way to resurrect Cancer Man and Krychek, lol.