I really neglected this blog. The intention was to chronocle my excitement leading up to the film, but other things just got in the way. That's what I thought anyway. Maybe I just subliminally anticapated what was coming.
The movie is out… and it’s a bomb. It had a $10 million opening weekend. The critics hate it. Spotniz has issued an apology for the film's rampant homophobia…
Everything has fallen apart.
The X-Files is dead. There is no way they can turn this mess into a franchise now.
So I guess this blog is dead too.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
The Poster!
Okay, so wow… I haven’t blogged in weeks.
There is also a great article here, covering an X-Files recent panel that had cast and crew discussing the series and the film. While the article contains little info regarding Done One, it does confirm that the movie continuity will reflect the passage of time since the series ended. Apparently Carter also mentioned that Mulder and Scully's baby could be referenced in the film, something most of the posters over at the Ultimate X-Files discussion board thought I was crazy for suggesting a few months ago!
It’s not that I’ve been sitting around doing nothing, not thinking about The X-Files, and its certainly not that there hasn’t been tonnes of exciting stuff happing in the world of The X-Files lately (teaser trailer I'm looking in your direction!). It's just that I’ve been tied up with my other commitments; primarily (Cult)ure Magazine and my novel (which I finally finished the first draft of yesterday! Yay!)
That said, the below posters is just way too exciting not to say SOMETHING about!
That said, the below posters is just way too exciting not to say SOMETHING about!
This is a perfect, simple, iconic image that just screams X-Files. It seems to evoke the darker promo images of the show's earlier season, while also calling back to the Fight the Future teaser posters with the projected X that I loved so much. A very good sign.
There is also a great article here, covering an X-Files recent panel that had cast and crew discussing the series and the film. While the article contains little info regarding Done One, it does confirm that the movie continuity will reflect the passage of time since the series ended. Apparently Carter also mentioned that Mulder and Scully's baby could be referenced in the film, something most of the posters over at the Ultimate X-Files discussion board thought I was crazy for suggesting a few months ago!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
New (Cult)u're Magazine X-Files Article
The new issue of (Cult)u're Magazine is out. Check it out here: http://www.culturemagazine.ca/This issue's theme is "Circles", and the cinema section includes an article of mine called "The X-Files 2: All Things Come Full Circle".
This is a taste of what the article has to offer:
The X-Files continued to draw viewers as Seasons Two and Three progressed, and managed to tap into the cultural zeitgeist in a significant way, positioning itself at the center of a cultural, artistic, political and intellectual nexus. A growing interest in feminism and mid-90s ‘girl power,’ the rise of the ‘metrosexual’ male, a renewed fascination in the possibility of extraterrestrial life, the spread of new age spiritualism, a growing cynicism towards government representatives, the popular birth of cell phones and internet communication technology, along with the massive spread of on-line culture, all influenced and were likewise influenced by the series.
You can read the full article here: http://www.culturemagazine.ca/content/view/147/54/
If you like what you see, be sure to subscribe to the magazine!
Monday, January 21, 2008
How to Solve "The Truth" Status Quo Problems
Okay, X-Files News Dot Com has the latest batch of set photos and, in the pictures, Mulder has a beard. Why does Mulder have a beard? Well, let's ruminate, shall we?
I've been thinking a lot about the strange situation "The Truth" left Mulder and Scully in and how it will be reflected in the movie. Chris Carter is faced with three major status quo problems going into this movie:
1) Mulder and Scully are a couple.
2) Mulder and Scully have a child.
3) Mulder and Scully are on the run from the government.
All these of these situations will need to be fixed. Carter isn't going to want ANY of those plot points to exist in the movie. He going to want a non-romantically linked Mulder and Scully working for the government investigating cases, without having to mention the babysitter watching little William back home.
So this is what I think is going to have happened between "The Truth" and "Done One".
Baby William will have died, perhaps because of the difficulties of life underground and on the run. The death of their child is too much for the couple, and Mulder and Scully break-up. (There's two of the three problems fixed right there.)
Following the break-up, Scully returns to the mainstream government work, only to discover that there has been a change in regimes and she and Mulder are no longer wanted criminals. Scully spends years working as part of the system, while Mulder refuses to trust the system and remains underground.
They don't speak for years. Scully works to make a name for herself and a respectable sicentist and distances herself from her past on the X-Files.
Then, Scully gets involved in a case that can only be described as 'paranormal'. She's in over her head and needs help. She is forced to seek out her old lover, her old partner, her old friend Fox Mulder.
Mulder's been living as a bearded, crazy underground paranormal researcher, but without the resources of the FBI too aid him and without the scientific knowledge of his old partner, he hasn't accomplished much.
Scully finds him and convinces him to return to the fold. He shaves his beard, puts on the old suit and they head out to investigate this X-File together for the first time in five years.
All of our problems are solved. We have a non-romantically linked and babyless non-wanted Mulder and Scully working for the government and investigating the paranormal together, without all of the baggage of the last two seasons.
I'd been thinking about this for a while and seeing Mulder in that beard only convinced me further that this is the approach they are going to take.
I've been thinking a lot about the strange situation "The Truth" left Mulder and Scully in and how it will be reflected in the movie. Chris Carter is faced with three major status quo problems going into this movie:
1) Mulder and Scully are a couple.
2) Mulder and Scully have a child.
3) Mulder and Scully are on the run from the government.
All these of these situations will need to be fixed. Carter isn't going to want ANY of those plot points to exist in the movie. He going to want a non-romantically linked Mulder and Scully working for the government investigating cases, without having to mention the babysitter watching little William back home.
So this is what I think is going to have happened between "The Truth" and "Done One".
Baby William will have died, perhaps because of the difficulties of life underground and on the run. The death of their child is too much for the couple, and Mulder and Scully break-up. (There's two of the three problems fixed right there.)
Following the break-up, Scully returns to the mainstream government work, only to discover that there has been a change in regimes and she and Mulder are no longer wanted criminals. Scully spends years working as part of the system, while Mulder refuses to trust the system and remains underground.
They don't speak for years. Scully works to make a name for herself and a respectable sicentist and distances herself from her past on the X-Files.
Then, Scully gets involved in a case that can only be described as 'paranormal'. She's in over her head and needs help. She is forced to seek out her old lover, her old partner, her old friend Fox Mulder.
Mulder's been living as a bearded, crazy underground paranormal researcher, but without the resources of the FBI too aid him and without the scientific knowledge of his old partner, he hasn't accomplished much.
Scully finds him and convinces him to return to the fold. He shaves his beard, puts on the old suit and they head out to investigate this X-File together for the first time in five years.
All of our problems are solved. We have a non-romantically linked and babyless non-wanted Mulder and Scully working for the government and investigating the paranormal together, without all of the baggage of the last two seasons.
I'd been thinking about this for a while and seeing Mulder in that beard only convinced me further that this is the approach they are going to take.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
First Mulder and Scully Pictures
Holy Shit!
We all saw those behind the scenes shots of Duchovny from the first few days of shooting last month, but here it is: our first pictures of Special Agent Fox Mulder and Special Agent Dana Scully together again!
I guess any hair questions are now put to rest. We have a long haired Scully in The X-Files 2!
And doesn't Gillian look great?!
Wow... those pictures don't really look weird at all. It just looks like Mulder and Scully doing their thing. If I had to describe them in one word, I would say that the pictures look "right", which is a good sign.
When I first saw these pics, I had to do a double take to make sure they weren't just stills from some old episode. It would seem that, aestetically speaking, the look of the characters is right where the series left off!
In other news, X-Files Ultimate reported recently that the budget for the film is $30 million, which is rather small when you consider that films like Superman Returns and Spider-Man 3 are all breaking the $200 million budget mark these days.
But heh, The X-Files isn't Spider-Man. They don't need tonnes of special effects. The best special effect The X-Files ever used was the dynamic chemistry between its two leads. 1013 shot nine years of episodes on a television budget and did just fine, so hopefully a modest budget shouldn't be a hinderance.
Then again, if you think of Carter as a first time feature film director, $30 million aint bad! Hell, look what Joss Whedon (another first time feature film director) did with Serenity's $39 million budget!
Then again, when it comes to directing, Carter aint no Whedon...
We all saw those behind the scenes shots of Duchovny from the first few days of shooting last month, but here it is: our first pictures of Special Agent Fox Mulder and Special Agent Dana Scully together again!
I guess any hair questions are now put to rest. We have a long haired Scully in The X-Files 2!And doesn't Gillian look great?!
Wow... those pictures don't really look weird at all. It just looks like Mulder and Scully doing their thing. If I had to describe them in one word, I would say that the pictures look "right", which is a good sign.
When I first saw these pics, I had to do a double take to make sure they weren't just stills from some old episode. It would seem that, aestetically speaking, the look of the characters is right where the series left off!
In other news, X-Files Ultimate reported recently that the budget for the film is $30 million, which is rather small when you consider that films like Superman Returns and Spider-Man 3 are all breaking the $200 million budget mark these days.But heh, The X-Files isn't Spider-Man. They don't need tonnes of special effects. The best special effect The X-Files ever used was the dynamic chemistry between its two leads. 1013 shot nine years of episodes on a television budget and did just fine, so hopefully a modest budget shouldn't be a hinderance.
Then again, if you think of Carter as a first time feature film director, $30 million aint bad! Hell, look what Joss Whedon (another first time feature film director) did with Serenity's $39 million budget!
Then again, when it comes to directing, Carter aint no Whedon...
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