Gillian Anderson Refuses to Let the Sun Set on the X-Files Franchise

Sometimes, when people drop hints about a movie adaptation being in the works, I snort derisively. But sometimes, when I might otherwise snort, I instead honestly feel bad for any fans reading the statement, and feel like the people involved should really keep it to themselves until they have concrete information.

I know, I know, a good part of getting movies made is showing that there’s an interest in them, and it’s hard to do that if you don’t tell anybody about them, but… I’m sorry. I just can’t see another X-Files movie getting made until years from now when somebody decides it’s time for a full reboot of the concept.

But hope springs eternal in camp X-Files, as Gillian Anderson related this weekend at the Toronto Fan Expo. According to X-Files News, she when questioned on the status of a third X-Files flick was heard to say: “I met with Chris [Carter, creator of the X-Files] before coming here and it’s looking pretty good.”

You could be forgiven for forgetting that there was, in fact, a second X-Files movie released in 2008, a mere week after The Dark Knight began its box office rampage. The X-Files: I Want to Believe opened to mediocre reviews at best, and didn’t do much to reinvigorate the finished franchise.

Blastr points out that Anderson isn’t the only person up for more X-Files. Co-star David Duchovny is also holding out hope:

I would love to do another film, or more. I think we’re all game for it. I know I’m kind of perplexed that Fox isn’t more [enthusiastic]. Here’s a homegrown property that you don’t have to go buy, like #$@!-in’ Green Lantern or something, to make it. Here you’ve got an actual action franchise that’s your own. It’s weird to me, but I’m not an executive. I don’t know if they made the Green Lantern either, but I’m just using that as an example of, “Why make that film? Why not make a homegrown franchise that is excellent, and that has proven to be excellent and interesting?” I don’t get it, but that’s not my business.

Come on, David. I bet Fox Mulder would know that Green Lantern is a DC Comics character and therefore wholly owned by Warner Bros. Fox has got the X-Men, though, so how about a crossover? In fact now that I come to think about it, and Google it, I can’t believe nobody’s made an official X-Men/X-Files crossover. Fox, get on this.

(via Blastr.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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