Any chance of X-Files 3???

[Daneel]

If they really want to do this, give them £10m, not a penny more.

No, no no. If it's gonna be the end of the world, they should spend some money.

Which they need to recoup at the box office.

Which may not be impossible... if they can get some bankable actors to play some supporting roles, and really make some cool-looking trailers and commercials, there's a chance it could do considerable better than the last one. After all, look how well Star Trek has done after Nemesis.

However, I'm more inclined to think that you're probably right, and that it wouldn't be too big at the box office. Hence, low-budget or TV movie is the way to go.

 

[Hermiod]

Starkers - According to Wikipedia it cost $30m to make and brought in $68m at the box office worldwide with $15m in DVD sales and rentals.

So, not unprofitable but I still say they should have released it in October when it would have no competition. It's a summer movie where they spend their whole time walking around in the snow. It didn't feel right.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Starkers - According to Wikipedia it cost $30m to make and brought in $68m at the box office worldwide with $15m in DVD sales and rentals.

So, not unprofitable but I still say they should have released it in October when it would have no competition. It's a summer movie where they spend their whole time walking around in the snow. It didn't feel right.

Batman Returns was released in the summer, with it's winter and pre-X-mas setting.

X-Files is The Next Generation...it hit its popularity with the mainstream but dwindled and wound up back to cult status, unable to make hit movies.

 

[Hermiod]

^Yes, but A) I didn't go see Batman Returns and B) that was a lot better than The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

 

[Starbreaker]

Why they didn't make the second movie exciting is beyond me.

 

[nx1701g]

I actually liked the 2nd film but it was a bad choice for a movie. People have certain expectations when it comes from this franchise and summer movies in general in most cases. They want explosions, gunfights, pretty much essentially what Gillian Anderson said were the reasons they couldn't compete.

In short it was a bad call for a theatrical release - had it been a TV movie I think that'd be different. Plus advertising was horribly bad. The only times I recall seeing promos for this were during Adult Swim.

 

[Delta1]

I think TXF did a lot of things really well, such as action, comedy, paranoia, horror, occasionally harder sci-fi. But I never much cared for the "spiritual" episodes that got kind of heavy later in the season. IWTB felt like a poorer spiritual episode. You've got a psychic who's gifted/cursed with visions by God, but his visions are as rote and uninteresting as possible; you've got Scully running up against the evil monster of hopelessness; and you've got Mulder running around ticking off Scully for reasons that are never entirely clear. Is it because he's been mooching off of her for years? Is it because he's stopped mooching off of her to devote himself to selflessly rescuing people? Is it because Scully thinks she's still competing with Samantha?

Also, handwaving away most of the consequences of the series finale didn't sit well with me as a minutia-obsessed basement-dwelling fanboy. Where the characters were just didn't ring true.

That said, I'd love a third movie. Even if it was just Chris Carter sitting on a soundstage, reading a screenplay which flatly contradicts everything that came before it, I'd see it.

 

[Pingfah]

That said, I'd love a third movie. Even if it was just Chris Carter sitting on a soundstage, reading a screenplay which flatly contradicts everything that came before it, I'd see it.

I think I would too actually, I own the Lone Gunmen DVD, which should give people an idea of what a completist I am. That show sucked ass.

 

[MPH]

According to wikipedia the film grossed 70m worldwide and made 15m on DVD sales, consdiering it only cost 30m to make then surley it made a profit?

 

[Harvey]

Double that to 60-70 million dollars for the cost of theatrical distribution and, yes, it still made a profit. But not as large of a profit as the studio would have liked, I imagine. Which leads a sequel either (a) costing less or (b) focusing on a more action-oriented plot, if it is ever made.

 

[slappy]

Dogget sucks.

 

[Delta1]

I think I would too actually, I own the Lone Gunmen DVD, which should give people an idea of what a completist I am. That show sucked ass.

The Lone Gunmen, like Millennium, was ahead of its time. I think it would do alright if it premiered today.

 

[caisson2delta]

The movie seemed much like ST Insurrection: a tv movie put on the big screen. If the writers and producers want to make a big screen movie, it needs to be that. I was passionate about the X Files way back when it was on Friday nights. I thought the first movie, being between seasons, was a great idea and enjoyable. But, now that it is long off the air, any movie incarnation really needs to be well done and spectacular to draw the fans back and make the sales. I would definitely like to see a third, if it ties everything together and gives the show a proper and resolved send off.

 

[Harvey]

I don't understand the "it's not big enough to be a movie" argument. There are many, many small movies made every year that I have greatly enjoyed in the theater. I'm not about to argue that they belong only on TV. Besides, Carter had to make the film for a very tight budget (4-9 million less than Serenity, depending on which source you believe, and that's before being adjusted for inflation!).

 

[Goji]

The problem, for me, wasn't that the story was "small". The series did well with "small" stories all the time. This film even mentioned a few of the better ones in passing, most notably the first season's "Beyond the Sea" and the later "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose". If they'd made a movie out of either of those stories, I'd have had no complaints (except, you know, they'd already been done on the TV show, but this is ALL hypothetical, so let's go with it).

But the story used in this movie was dreadfully dull, which started out boring and only got worse until it just... ended. I know a lot of people were happy just to see Mulder and Scully back, but as someone who was never a fan of their characterization in the later seasons (specifically, as a couple, which never, ever worked for me) that simply wasn't enough.

The location shooting was cool, especially after the final four seasons of the show in LA. The rest of the movie sucked in a big way, and is one of the biggest letdowns in recent memory. And I went into it with extremely low expectations too. Meh.

As for a possible third X-Files feature, another "mythology" entry doesn't really interest me. From the sixth season on, the standalone episodes were consistently better than the increasingly convoluted and nonsensical arc episodes (which is not to say that they were wonderful. With exceptions, usually those written by Vince Gilligan, they were most certainly not). If the much-anticipated return of the X-Files failed so completely as a standalone story, arguably its greatest area of strength, I have absolutely no faith that the mythology arc could be at all rehabilitated into something worth watching.

 

[sidious618]

I might be one of the only people who loved the 2nd movie. I thought the personal stories of both Mulder & Scully were really well done, and I thought it only right that the main plot should play second fiddle to this.

I found the sombre atmosphere to be quite engrossing, the film looked and felt great, ok it was a bit TV episodeish, but X-files was a TV show. Even the first film only dealt with the fall out of events from the TV show. Due to all of the other themes worked in and the really great cast Xfiles II actually felt more theatrical than the first IMO.

So yeah, XFIII, yes please!

Bingo. I've come to like the film more and more as time goes on.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Fight The Future was a better movie with more of a plot...I Want To Believe felt like some have said already as a filler episode or two parter. It really didn't do very much for me except disappoint me and wonder why Carter felt this was a decent enough plot to film a movie around. It was great seeing Mulder and Scully back after so long but still the movie fell flat. Xibit or whatever his name is and Amanda Peet were not totally bad but they should have used Doggett and Reyes, the movie didn't even explain where they were.

As for another movie, Carter said that if I Want to Belive was successful that he would do a third movie that surrounded the alien invasion on December 21, 2012. It was in an interview with Entertainment Weekly...since IWTB bombed I doubt we'll get to see this, but you never know.

 

[FlyingLemons]

I really wanted to like I Want to Believe as I went in to see it, but for me it just bombed. Most of it just didn't feel like a movie at all. I loved the first film, saw it when I was 17 and thought that it was brilliant - it felt much bigger and wider in scope than anything the series had done before.

However, this one just fell flat, and they could have just stuck an edited together mytharc episode from the show's earlier years up there and it would have been more of an event. If they do another one, I probably will go and see it as despite the fact that I didn't like this film, I still love The X-Files in general, but they should try and go back to a story with a bigger scope. It doesn't have to be an alien-based film to do this, but they just have to try and come up with the right concept.