Some things run too long. Pro athletes retire too late and are only shadows of their former selves… one too many movies get made in a series… and often a good TV show runs 2 or 3 seasons too long. Such is the case with The X-Files. This was a terrific show that just hit the wall of suck real sudden and real fast. The addition of Robert Patrick to the cast gave the show a little boost of energy… but even that wasn’t enough as every episode got progressively worse and worse. It was a sad and slow ending until it’s death in one of the truly worst Series Finales of all time. What a shame.
On the plus side, the X-Files movie was surprisingly good (IMHO). I thought it was well thought out, well executed, and set the show up for some really neat directions. But alas, the producers completely dropped the ball and little to no follow up to the movie was done. Once again, what a shame. We’ve reported here on The Movie Blog for some time that another X-Files movie could be in the works, and now it looks like such a project is a lot closer than we realized. MovieHole gives us this:
Well, so far from what I know, David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson have been saying for years now about the next film, but I have also heard from a gent at Fox that the new film not only has a finished script, but also has a director attached and a start date scheduled for the end of the year.
The post also goes on to point out the Robert Patrick has confirmed the project and is on board. If for nothing else I’m willing to hold out some hope for this movie because of all the potential the X-Files had (and ultimately squandered). Let’s hope Carter has seen the error of his ways and has taken a good long time to reflect on how to get this story back on track. I think it has a shot.
