New X-Files Movie

An anonymous reader writes to let us know that a new X-Files movie is in pre-production, directed and written by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Duchovny said in an interview that his understanding is that filming will start in November for a summer 2008 release. The article notes that in an earlier interview, Anderson said the film "would stay away from the series' (and first film's) sometimes tortured mythology" (quoting the article, not Anderson).

Oh man, I Think I Just....

[N8F8]

Had a geekgasm!

Aliens won't probe anymore

[Tablizer]

Gillian Anderson has got to be pretty old by now. The fun may be gone.

Re:Wait, what?!

[aichpvee]

Better than what I first read. I was still groggy from a nap and read "New X-Men movie starring starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson." Worse still, my first thought at that wasn't that I'd read something wrong but rather "who cares if Solid Snake isn't writing this one?"

Re:Oh man, I Think I Just....

[SpaceballsTheUserNam]

Meh, I'm waiting for The Lone Gunmen prequel.

Re:Oh man, I Think I Just....

[Anonymous Coward]

Sick, dude! The truth is out there. And it just made me puke in my mouth a little bit.

Re:Wait, what?!

[redanzl]

I just hope they don't cast Gary Shandling as Muldur's long-lost sister.

The Lone Gunmen die!

[tylersoze]

Oh wait, was I suppose to put a spoiler alert first?

Re:Oh man, I Think I Just....

[Tablizer]

Had a geekgasm!

Not as big as a beowulf orgy, though.
       

Anderson is back

[mk_is_here]

Welcome back, Miss Anderson. We miss you... Oops, sorry, wrong movie quote.

Re:Wait, what?!

[arivanov]

At least you did not read it as "X-File themed episode of Red Shoe Diaries" starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.

Re:Lost is better

[largesnike]

did at least promise that it wouldn't be a "it was all a dream" or a "they're already dead" ending

Oh God, if he did that, I'd personally bust his kneecaps!

Yeah,

[MrCopilot]

I miss Mulder. I miss Scully. I missed the last freakin episode. It was just so hard to stay till the end with that Terminator guy and the Baby and agent Reyes.

Scully and Reyes Sex scene now we are talking Box Office Gold.

Re:Duchovney & Anderson

[suv4x4]

An X-Files movie would be great. But you don't need Fox or Dana to do it. Fresh faces, fresh talent, less annoying.

Yup. Other movie ideas I'm having along the same approach:

X-Men movie but swap the DNA mutations for emo culture and hard metal/rock underground.
Batman movie without costumes and gadgets, about the struggles of a billionaire Bruce Wayne to increase his company revenue.
James Bond prequel. Like, how his parents met up and married or something?
Toy Story movie about alcoholic toys in mid-life crisis, sexual problems and physical abuse.
Star Wars movie set in the wild west.
Jurassic Park, but instead of real dinosaurs, it turns out Dr. John Hammond hired ILM to make elaborate fake computer dinosaurs and escape abroad with hundreds of millions of investor funding.
Saw 4, where it turns out everything in Saw 1, 2, 3 was a dream sequence of a poor patient dying of cancer, and telling the story of a cancer patient finding true love in his last days of life.

Re:Aliens won't probe anymore

[clickclickdrone]

>Gillian Anderson has got to be pretty old by now.
Well I wouldn't climb over her to get to you.

Re:"hot" women

[Sponge Bath]

If you want consistently "hot" women then try watching porn

The truth really *is* out there.
I just didn't expect to find it on Slashdot.

but as I always say...

[misanthrope101]

Beauty is only a light-switch away.

Age aside, I lost my fascination with Sculley when they made her vulnerable and emotional. The ice-maiden thing was quite the draw, but when I saw her crying and needy...hell, I can find that anywhere. Cerebral and aloof? Sign me up.

Surprise

[Big Nothing]

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in a new X-Files movie? That's a surprise, now that their individual, off-x-files careers have skyrocketed so completely!

"Evolution" is the only non-x-files movie I can remember having seen either of them in, and belive me; I'd rather I forgot.

Re:Wait, what?!

[S.O.B.]

At least that might be worth seeing.

Re:Aliens won't probe anymore

[tehcyder]

she only going to be 40. She's not that old.

This is /. where any woman over 25 is considered a MILF. If she's lucky.

The plot (spoiler warning!)

[Cervantes]

I'm glad this is happening, the world was crying out for a new X Files movie. I'm glad all my protest letters to Fox finally had an effect.

Now that it's starting, I can tell you all the plotline. In the first half of the movie, Scully and Mulder will travel deep into the artic to find the lost alien mothership that contains the special brand of bees needed to resurrect the Lone Gunmen.
In the second half of the movie, Scully and Mulder will try to save the world from Zombie Lone Gunmen.