X-Files movie to come out July 25!

[jalola]

Now that's good news. David and Gillian were at Wonder-Con and a preview of the movie was shown. Doesn't reveal much beside Billy Connolly being in the film.

Two stills are out:

Duchovny also threw down the gauntlet when talking about the X-Files vs shows on TV now. Supposedly this was in reference to CSI.

"I think to give all the respect to Chris [Carter] and Frank [Spotnitz] that they deserve, I think the story telling in X-Files was a lot more sophisticated than those shows. I think you go to the movies for the philosophical battle and the drama of solving a case with intellect."

I do remember that by the end of the X-Files I felt as misled and disappointed by the writing as I've recently felt by CSI. So I don't know that this means much. Still, I'm looking forward to the movie in the summer.


Links:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/02/24/wondercon-first-x-files-2-footage-plus-duchovny-and-anderson/

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/02/the-x-files-won.html

http://movies.ign.com/articles/854/854524p1.html

Comments

[ic789.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that this movie is getting made. Thanks for the heads-up. A unique thing to the X-Files during the series was that most of the episodes were directed and produced by the same person; Chris Carter was capable of doing that very well.

I'm not surprised that David Duchovny would comment on the current TV show status, it's part of the business.

[jalola.livejournal.com]

True. I can only imagine what might have happened to the X-Files if it had two spin-offs that siphoned off the early creative staff. I know some of the writers of The X-Files left during the series, but it always was helmed by Chris Carter and it kept his basic vision.

[cgrgrl.livejournal.com]

I'm one of the few people who never got to see much of the X-Files because during it's run I was moving in and out of Germany. At the time AFN was always one season, if not more, behind so when I left there, I got here and missed a season, then I went back and they didn't show it again and I ended up missing like two seasons. By the time I got back here I was too frustrated to keep going with it. I'm sure I'll end up getting the seasons from the library or netflix someday and watching them.