X-Files Sequel in '08
We've been reporting on this one for a while, so we're happy to finally announce that FOX has issued a release date for the highly anticipated X-Files sequel. Series creator Chris Carter will reunite with stars Duchovny and Anderson and while details are slim, we can tell you that the pic is being described as 'a stand-alone story and supernatural thriller that takes the complicated relationship between Mulder and Scully in new directions.' Release date is currently set for July 25th, '08 and filming begins in Vancouver this December.
From Variety
The long-awaited second X-Files film is finally a go, with 20th Century Fox setting a July 25, 2008 release date.
Untitled project reunites X-Files creator Chris Carter wilth thesps David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, who will reprise their signature roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
Carter begins lensing in December in Vancouver from a script he co-wrote with Frank Spotnitz, a veteran scribe of the long-running X-Files television series, which became a worldwide hit during its 1993-2002 run on the Fox network. Spotnitz also co-wrote with Carter the screenplay for 1998 feature X-Files. Carter and Spotnitz will also serve as producers.
Studio is keeping the film's logline under wraps, but stressed the pic is a stand-alone story and supernatural thriller that takes the complicated relationship between Mulder and Scully in new directions.
As of now, there are only two other titles skedded for July 25, both comedies. Sony unspools Will Ferrell-John C. Reilly starrer Step Brothers, directed by Adam McKay, while MGM has bows untitled Ice Cube family laffer.
Plan to bring the X-Files sequel to the bigscreen was waylaid when Chris Carter brought a 2005 lawsuit against Fox over how the X-Files syndication profits were divvied up. Suit was later settled.
Earlier this year, the issue seemed to have been resolved, with Duchovny and Anderson both indicating that the film was finally moving forward.
Released in 1998, feature film The X-Files grossed $187 million worldwide, including a domestic haul of $83.9 million and an international cume of more than $103 million.
