The Paley Fest’s big X-Files event went down last night at the Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood, which allowed series creator Chris Carter and writer/producer Frank Spotnitz to taunt another crowd o’ geeks with a loud, hectic and completely unrevealing teaser for The X-Files: Return of the X-Files. Okay, this time I’m really joking; according to Carter, he’s still battling 20th Century Fox over the title of the movie (with the studio preferring The X-Files: Haulin’ Ass to Hoboken).
According to The Hollywood Reporter‘s James Hibberd, Carter did confirm that this would essentially be a standalone, “monster of the week” episode; in other words, all those ticket buyers Fox desperately needs to turn a profit with this sucker shouldn’t worry about getting lost in the show’s mythology. Meanwhile, fans needn’t fret that Carter and Spotnitz are hitting some kind of reset button with this second feature; there will be references to shit that went down in past episodes (including details on Scully’s kid).
Here’s the teaser. Pretty inconclusive, no? You’ll have to wait for Iron Man on May 2nd to see the rest.
The X-Files: ? opens July 25th, 2008.
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This looks incredible. I like that we get a glimpse of what Scully's new profession is (in that early dialogue bit with Mulder).
I wonder if they're together or apart.
And I always thought that the writing away of William into Adoption Land was one of the final season's gravest mistakes; I prefer to think of the season eight finale ("Existence") as the show's true ending, but it'll be interesting to see how they deal with the Mulder/Scully relationship in the new movie.
I'm so excited about this, and so nervous about this.
"I just want to believe."
Amen.
I think I am looking forward to this more than any other this summer…
Nice!
I hope the Smoking Man's in this one.
Potential SPOILER *******************************************************************************Weren't there pictures of some kind of werewolf-looking beast from the set awhile back? That would be cool. The werewolf episode was one of my favorites. I like that it's a creature movie.
Badass. That was great, but looking forward to seeing a non-bootlegged version. But it still managed to take me back and remind me how much I loved the show in the early seasons. "Fight the Future" was good too.
Beaks, it's already been taken down. Please tell me that they manage to make Gillian look better in the teaser than in the pics you've put up so far?
…is langley in this one too? im telling you people langley!…
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