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Spotnitz talked with bloody-disgusting just the other day and gave much more information, and some real hope for another film. That Sun article you linked to was pretty light on the details.
See here:
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/14465
For instance, regarding the future of the franchise he says:

"I think there very well could be more in the future," he reveals to Bloody-Disgusting. "The studio has not indicated another one yet, but there certainly is an audience for it. I think what happened this past summer was a function of bad luck and bad timing with the release. These movies cost a lot of money, not just to make but to market them as well. When the studio looks at the sales of the DVD that’s when they will really decide to see if its worth risking. There is still a lot of love with 20th Century Fox, as well as with the fans."

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How can you can yourself an X Files fan and not want to see the Alien Invasion? That don't sound right to me. This movie wasn't great, it was OK but X Files needs REAL closure with one more high explosive Alien invasion film.

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I was a BIG x-files fan, and I really didn't think this was any type of ending at all. In fact, I kept thinking to myself, this would be a great mystery movie, but it's not an x-files movie, outside of Mulder & Scully being in it. It was almost like they took a failed script & added Mulder & Scully, then sold it to Fox.

I also think they've killed any chance at a full conclusion to the story, and any chance to revisit the mythology that the series created.

Plus Scully isn't looking any younger, and seeing Gillian Anderson try to run around as a 50 year old is not my idea of fun.

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I blame George Lucas. Because it's cool to do so.

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The reason I didn't go and see it was because the story seemed to involve a psychic instead of aliens, and it was set in a freezing cold area DURING THE HEIGHT OF SUMMER!

I'm not a huge fan but I've every episode of S1 and S2.

If they were going to set it in a freezing cold area, I would've prefered something like The Thing, or something like that episode in S1 (?) where the blonde from Desperate Housewives appears.

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I wouldn't say its TDK fault that X-Files did so poorly, but it certainly was one of the contributing factors. Its pretty hard to have a huge opening weekend when the movie your up against just broke the all time record for opening weekend BO. This movie was never going to be a huge money maker, but it would have made more money if it had been released during a slower season (Feb. for example).

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If you take this long to make another movie, after the TV show ended ages ago, you have to do something out of this world to make it come to life. TDK would have never been that successful had Nolan not taken the right steps to it, Batman Begins was a solid start up. X-files needed something like that. Most people expect aliens and abductions, not an extended episode of season four. I think it was a good movie, but could have been way better and hoped for a smashing sequel, TDK style.

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I think the fact that the movie was poor largely contributed to its failure. It was badly written, badly executed, and ignored any plot and character continuity that had been previously established. Mulder/Scully not being on the run, and Scully being a practicing surgeon were huge problems for me.

It really did feel like they threw Mulder and Scully into an Ashley Judd/Morgan Freeman movie. I understand that they largely ignored the alien mythology to try to appeal to a broader audience, but in doing so, they ended up taking out all things that made the X-Files, the X-Files.



I was a die hard fan eagerly anticipating 'I Want to Believe' but considering how badly it was executed, I have no interest in future endeavours.

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Nobody wanted to go an see a dreary story about sinister catholics, peadophile scottish comedians and a blatantly signposted killer eager to widen his exposure after a successful stint in tvs brilliant Battlestar Gallactica- I only went eventually because I love Gillian Anderson as an actress an think David Duchovny is a major shag an I was still bored!!!
In the next movie in 2008 they could hunt down the secret underground cult of elite disgraced Republicans, who sold America down the toilet 10 years earlier for a teeny bit of oil!!!

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Right ... and the fact that they waited forever and chose a rather boring, limited story had absolutely nothing to do with it. (But, then, I seem to be one of the few who watched The X-Files for something other than M/S ...)

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X-files has become a right of passage in my house: You want in, you watch. I had just finished the ninth season the day before "I Want To Believe" came out, and the film felt like such a cheap, cheap cash in. It was like they struggled so long to get the movie made, by the time it was greenlit they didn't have any ideas.

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This movie did poorly because it sucked. Blaming luck, timing or the phase of the moon is nothing but an attempt to cover the fact that Carter & Co. made a badly directed, poorly scripted pile of fail.

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blaming the dark knight? ridiculous. the movie sucked. i couldn't believe it was an x-files movie and the only supernatural thing about it was a mere psychic connection. how about continuing where the series left off... that is the impending alien invasion? to have a movie for this and just make it a regular storyline that belongs only on tv was just dumb. it deserved to fail and i cannot believe anderson and duchovny signed on to the movie after reading the script.

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At what point did the producers of the this movie say `wow, I bet people will be excited about the storyline of this movie!'
I don't think they ever did. If I'm wrong then they must have been heavily medicated at the time.

When the series was on air, my friends and I would speculate as to what an X Files movie would be like. We thought it would be something like `Seven' but with an occult/monster/scary alien/weird arsed, serial killing, mutant human angle. Take your pick. When I read that their was a new movie and it was greenlit with `monster of the week' plot I got excited.
Then I saw it.
Pass the Valium.

Note to Mr Spotnitz; Don't blame poor timing or another superior and far better film for your films failure. You indulged your lead actors with a thuddingly dull performance showcase and forgot about who your audience was and what they wanted to see. Showman's Rule number 1.
The X Files at it's best was spooky, suspenseful, funny and exciting. This movie was like waiting for a bus to arrive on a wet day.

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"The X Files at it's best was spooky, suspenseful, funny and exciting. This movie was like waiting for a bus to arrive on a wet day"

couldnt really say it any better than that, unfortunately they wont get the budget to do what the fans want to see, i.e. the invasion!

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i was soooo excited about this movie coming out but, omigod, was i disappointed....im a huge x-files fanatic and would watch the series over and over....so i was really expecting this movie to blow me away, to have that butterfly feeling in your stomach when you watch the series and the 1st movie....but the plot really did not feel like the x-files....i was actually bored during parts of this movie, to my horror! David and Gillian were fantastic though...fair play to them....they really are great actors and work amazing well together, fantastic chemistry, which is the only good thing about "i want to believe"....if only chris & co had of brought what the audience wanted to see, this would have been huge! i would hope that a sequel will follow and justify this mistake, and give what the fans want.

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