It worked for James Bond, Captain Kirk and Bruce Wayne, so why not Fox Mulder and Dana Scully?
Web site Slash Film reports that 20th Century Fox is interested in a third installment for the “X-Files” series, but that it could be a reboot.
A report on Bloody Disgusting said, “While they work to confirm the story, here at Bloody Disgusting we can tell you that there is in fact talk about doing another… Something we can add to the story is there is talk of a REBOOT. Are you surprised? Nothing is set in stone, all should be taken as rumor until confirmed.”
A potential release date of 2012 is in the cards. Fans may recall that 2012 was significant from the original series mythology and that Chris Carter talked about wanting a movie set in 2012 to address that.
Of course, the biggest question is would X-Philes embrace anyone besides David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson playing Mulder and Scully.
Why bother? Warehouse 13 is just one in a long line of shows that have imitated the X-files that we really don’t need a new version of it. And some of the imitators managed to not crash and burn the way that X-Files did.
I think I prefer to stick with the originals. They are not that old. A reboot is not required. I loved the newest film but if the general public would prefer a summer action packed blockbuster there is no reason that the current crew couldn’t deliver with the right script.
I liked the early seasons of The X-Files, but the movies were disappointing. The first film you can forgive being the first big-screen attempt, but the second’s story was not that interesting.
If Carter recasts the movie, it may be good if they go back to some of the original first season stories.
I’m mixed on this.. I’d like to see more X-Files that include the Lone Gunmen, provided they get a story worthy of a movie.
Boo!!!
If they rebooted this series, I wouldn’t watch. How can anyone else play Fox Mulder?
having new people play mulder and scully is almost as dumb as naming your science fiction channel SyFY. freaking stupid
I don’t know that a reboot (as in new actors playing established characters) would work at this point. It kind of works with Trek simply because it’s been more than a decade since the last movie with the original cast, and they are far too old to play their twenty-something selves. But there’s only been one X-Files — well, maybe two depending on how you count the Doggett / Reyes years. I could see a continuation with the old guard passing the torch to a new generation. But, as D.C. said, that’s pretty much Warehouse 13.
face palm.
Darcy
And Uncle Mike calls 13 year olds dumb.
The new Star Trek movie (just to be clear) is not a reboot. It’s an alternate timeline. A reboot is something that completely ignores previous canon and starts anew. Of course, there may be some similarities between an original version and its reboot, but usually the creators of the reboot can make any changes they please. Like take BSG for example. Starbuck was a man in the original, but in the reboot Starbuck was a woman.
I used “reboot” to refer to the new Trek movie because that’s how the production team and marketing referred to it. And they have, in essence, restarted the original series’ characters using actors (Nimoy as old Spock) and plot devices (the bad guys from Nemesis) that already existed in the franchise canon.
The Moore/Eick camp have always referred to their version of BSG as a “reimagining”, which makes sense because the characters, timeline, and underlying storyline are so different from the original.
I think our difference of opinion here comes from different understandings of the vocabulary we’re both using. I see a “reboot” as analogous to rebooting a computer — same software and hardware (i.e. characters and society / premise) just starting over with a new session (i.e. cast and production team). In that sense of the word, I don’t think an X-Files reboot is a good idea at this point.
“I used “reboot” to refer to the new Trek movie because that’s how the production team and marketing referred to it.”
Then they’re using the term incorrectly. Because that movie doesn’t fit the definition.
Reboot won’t work. As others have pointed out, the show only ended it’as t.v. run a little while ago, thus the fans of the original series are “still out there” and won’t accept new characters. You can reboot when there is enough of a generation gap to attract a whole new fan base.
Furthermore, shows like Star Trek are entities themselves (i.e. we associate Star Trek with more than just Kirk and Spoke such as the Enterprise, the Federation, Klingons etc.), while the X-files, in my opinion, is prmarily about how the characters Mulder and Scully react to the various situations they’re in. The characters drive the show.
No.
IT WOULDNT WORK….
GILLIAN AND DAVID are SCULLY AND MULDER..
i promise you it would not work with anyone besides them..
i wouldnt even watch it the idea is wrong
I will personally set out, weaponry in tow to reboot the heads of any mother*ucker that dares to ‘reboot’ the x files… I would just like to state here for the record that i am a reasonably minded lit graduate from the UK, not a violent person by nature. Still, i don’t think any suggestion I’ve ever heard about anything has stirred such caustic anger in my soul as this has… Rebooting the x files would be a prostitution of a brand and nothing more… Leave well alone.
Half of me wants to say HELL NO. Half of me wants a new tv series with NEW characters and storylines. Because honestly, The X-Files is my all-time favorite show and will always be next to Supernatural. Mulder and Scully belong to David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, period. If the writers could come up with something Better than the original series (which I doubt) with interesting characters and brave and creative storylines I might watch. Because after Supernatural is done, I’m done with tv forever. Of course continuing Mulder and Scully’s via comic book series may be better.
David Boreanaz as Fox Mulder he has the look about him and Bones so why not Special Agent Fox Mulder
*sigh* You know, I’m really tired of people trying to milk franchises with these dumb “reboots.” It shows how lacking in artistic integrity the film industry has gotten. Instead of re-writing a whole universe after a bad fall, why not add to that universe with a better product? Or better yet, why not make sure there isn’t a bad fall in the first place and actually put some thought into what you’re creating? I mean, it should’ve been obvious to Carter that after 8+ of no “X-Files,” we fans wanted to see ALIENS and CONSPIRACIES, not some Russian-run human body chop-shop. The only way I’d see this is if the new film was about the 2012 mass alien attack/abduction (I forget what it was exactly) predicted in the series and closed the story once and for all.
I think Hollywood has lost any sense of creativity. IMHO, the only reboot that was done well was RDM’s Battlestar Galactica, and JJ Abrams Star Trek. We don’t want an X-Files Reboot. Write a better story and put that on screen and people will pay to see it. Simple concept that movie execs seem to have forgotten.
I think the third installment should ignore the second film and delete it completely from the X-Files series. It should start where the series finale left off. If they want to reboot the franchise, why not create a disappearance scenario of Mulder and Scully and get new actors to be the main characters looking for them.