2nd X-Files Trailer

Here's a peek at the newest The X-Files: I Want to Believe trailer:

I'm all for trailers that don't give away the plot, believe me, but this may be the vaguest trailer I've seen in recent memory! What the heck is going on? All I can tell is that there's a lot of ice, a lot of running and a lot of Billy Connolly. So, basically, fans of winter and summer Olympics and fans of Head of the Class can finally join together and enjoy a flick, I guess.

X-Files: I Want to Believe

I may be in the minority, but I think that title is dumb. Eh, oh well - I was not consulted, so I guess I should keep it to myself! Anyway, in keeping with my movie posts for today here's a little blurb on the upcoming X-Files feature. Highlights include:

• It's a stand-alone story, set in the winter of 2008, that [series creator Chris] Carter describes as a ''suspense thriller'' akin to the monster-of-the-week episodes from the show's early days. Gone is the occasionally baffling mythology — Black oil! Ice picks! Bees! — that came to define the series. The new film is designed to satisfy the faithful while courting a new generation of fans raised on Saw and Hostel.

I say: Good. It's been 6 years and even though I totally rewatch the episodes I love when I see'em on TNT, I'm a bit rusty on the whole mythology scenario.

• Billy Connolly plays a priest of what [Carter right-hand man Frank] Spotnitz calls ''dubious character,'' and Xzibit and Amanda Peet show up as two new FBI agents.

Now, I loved Xzibit on Pimp My Ride but I'm not sure that show honed his acting chops quite enough to star alongside my man David. What's that? He was in xXx?!!! Well, nevermind then. He's golden!

• The real key to The X-Files lies in Mulder and Scully's relationship, which promises to be a big part of the new film. The series ended with the duo in love and on the lam, and Carter says the movie will be ''true to the stories that we've told, and to that final episode.'' But just like here in the real world, time has passed. ''Mulder and Scully have not been frozen in ice,'' Duchovny says. ''They've been leading some kind of life, together or apart, in some parallel dimension. They've had experiences that we'll never know about.'' Despite paparazzi photos of two actors who look suspiciously like Duchovny and Anderson locked in an embrace, Carter is quick to caution against focusing too much on make-out sessions.

Whatevs. We all know there'll be at least one lusty scene - all the X-Philes will go berserk if all they get is a chaste little peck, y'know what I'm saying?

• Another installment would make three films in the franchise... But Carter suggested that a future movie might re-engage with the original TV show's overarching alien-invasion plot. Doing so could be timely given that, according to X-Files mythology, the final stage of said invasion is due to start in December 2012. "Well, we didn't think that one up," Carter said. "That is actually part of the literature. It is a Mayan date. But I think we'd like to revisit that whole storyline."

I loved the X-Files when it was on TV and I am excited they're continuing the story with another movie... I just hope it doesn't turn into almost every other trilogy (save the Bourne movies, Robert, I know) where it would have been better left off at #2 (hello, Spiderman, I'm talking to you). Again, no one is consulting me so I guess it doesn't matter - you know I'll see the third movie if and when it's made, so all my blathering on is really for naught! :o)

X-Files Trailer

There was an X-Files panel at the Paley Festival yesterday during which a teaser trailer for the upcoming X-Files movie was shown. It hasn't been "officially" leaked (yet) so the available footage is all via camera phone but it's still pretty good. A general summary, courtesy of TVGuide.com:

Shortly after the first screening of the teaser, the fans asked Chris Carter for a second look, and he happily agreed. The crowd that had gone nuts at the first showing reacted even more strongly when they could fully soak up the images a second time around. The film's story seems to begin with a young girl that is taken by something, prompting a massive FBI search effort that takes place in a large snowy field...Judging from Scully's reaction to Mulder asking for her help, she's been away from the FBI for a while... but perhaps not away from him. (The trailer showed a glimpse of a lovey-dovey shot of the pair about to kiss.) A bonus tidbit comes directly from Carter on the press line: Baby William, whom so many of you asked about, will be addressed in the movie in some fashion.

A ton of filming footage has been leaked on the Web showing Mulder and Scully making out, so I'm not too worried that they won't be an item in the film. :o)

You know I always love me some Mulder!! So, here are a couple links to the "guerrilla" trailer footage (the link is to a better quality peek but one that I was unable to embed):

X-Files Trailer