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New X-Files Series Coming From Creed And Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler - SlashFilm

Original series creator Chris Carter is claiming Coogler plans to 'remount' the long-running TV show 'with a diverse cast.'

www.slashfilm.com

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

How would this even work when the word “alien” is “problematic” in itself?

 

[CrankyJay™]

I guess....the monsters of the week were cool, just make sure your overreaching arc actually goes somewhere.

 

[DetectiveBananas]

I’m not really sure how they can start fresh with a lot of people interested. Best part of X-Files was the monster of the week episodes, so if they lean hard on that aspect then it might be ok. Good luck replicating Mulder and Scully’s on screen chemistry. They’ve tried that already and it didn’t work.
Still……They Never Did Find the rest of The Peacock Family in the “Home” episode

 

[22:22:22]

Mediocrity in 10 minus 9 8 7 6 5 4 2 1.

 

[22:22:22]

How would this even work when the word “alien” is “problematic” in itself?

Indulge me.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Oh boy. Zero hopes for this one.

 

[Burning Blade]

Indulge me.

Ask Demi Lovato.
Also I must be in the extreme minority in that I loved the alien saga aspect of the show. I felt like that culminated in the first movie, but fell off pretty hard after that. Chris Carter absolutely fucked the legacy up of the show with the last few seasons. Especially the last season which was awful.

 

[Badlucktroll]

If its a new cast i hope it at least has Duchovny as the leader of the new X-Files team

 

[sono]

I want to believe

 

[DGrayson]

I am a huge xfiles fan. Rewatch the whole series every 5 years or so.

I'm fine if they try something new like a new show about 2 fbi agents investigating supernatural stuff. But if they try to remake xfiles this is going to fail so hard.

 

[El Pistolero]

Without David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson? Good luck!

 

[0neAnd0nly]

Whos going to be gay?

Are the Aliens going to be able to vote in the US elections?

These are the hard hitting questions.

 

[CrankyJay™]

I am a huge xfiles fan. Rewatch the whole series every 5 years or so.

I'm fine if they try something new like a new show about 2 fbi agents investigating supernatural stuff. But if they try to remake xfiles this is going to fail so hard.

Yeah, I like this idea.

That's exactly what Fringe did and I enjoyed it.

 

[Spaceman292]

I’m not really sure how they can start fresh with a lot of people interested. Best part of X-Files was the monster of the week episodes, so if they lean hard on that aspect then it might be ok. Good luck replicating Mulder and Scully’s on screen chemistry. They’ve tried that already and it didn’t work.
Still……They Never Did Find the rest of The Peacock Family in the “Home” episode

Even Mulder and Scully had trouble recreating the Mulder and Scully chemistry in the later movies and stuff

 

[jason10mm]

A big part of X-files was that 80s/90's era alien abduction stuff which has almost totally disappeared today. I'm trying to think of a conspiracy theory show being made today that DOESN'T dive straight into Jan 6 MAGA nonsense. Maybe reptilians? It's been done. More of a cosmic horror versus the greys? Possible. Personally, I'd go with an "invasion of the body snatchers" theme but they can't quite get it right and that explains all the gender dysphoria we have these days but that'd jump on the third rail of social consciousness waaaaaaaaaay too easily.

The other key is the dynamic of an educated skeptic who straight denies all the shit right in front of their face paired with an intelligent believer that constantly adjusts their world view to include all the counter-factuals when they are wrong. Scully also had a strong faith element which flipped the tables at times where she would be the "believer" and Mulder suddenly started shooting down kooky ideas. Writers these days can't grok the subtlety required to make that heady combo work for over almost TWO HUNDRED episodes (plus the later seasons and the films)!

I dunno, this is gonna be a tough one that has a higher bar of excellence than damn near any other show I can think of at the moment.

 

[John Bilbo]

i don't know... i'm more of a scully than a mulder on this one

 

[AJUMP23]

Just use this guy, make it all aliens all the time.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Hope it tries to explore WEF, ESG, DEI, one world government type stuff.

 

[bitbydeath]

Remount sounds like they already have plans on fucking it.

 

[wipeout364]

It’s going to be hard to succeed but it might work. I never thought Magnum PI would be a hit but it’s still going and they got like 8 seasons out of Hawaii 5.0.

X files is tricky as it had that romantic chemistry in the background and it took place in an era where I think people were more gullible in some ways as the internet was not so prevalent.

Coogler is not some hack so he might be able to put something compelling together.

 

[Ristifer]

The other key is the dynamic of an educated skeptic who straight denies all the shit right in front of their face paired with an intelligent believer that constantly adjusts their world view to include all the counter-factuals when they are wrong. Scully also had a strong faith element which flipped the tables at times where she would be the "believer" and Mulder suddenly started shooting down kooky ideas. Writers these days can't grok the subtlety required to make that heady combo work for over almost TWO HUNDRED episodes (plus the later seasons and the films)!

I dunno, this is gonna be a tough one that has a higher bar of excellence than damn near any other show I can think of at the moment.

Pretty much this. Writers of these kinds of series these days can't actually grasp these elements and end up blowing their loads about three episodes in (three if we're lucky).

 

[Stuart360]

X-Files is my 2nd fave tv show after Star Trek TNG, but i dont think i want this to be honest.

I can only imagine what a show like this will be like in 2023, and what some of the episodes will involve.

 

[nush]

Just use this guy, make it all aliens all the time.

I'd watch that.

 

[Power Pro]

"diverse cast" already has me hating the direction. Stop hiring people based on their race or gender and hire based on their talents FFS.

 

[ShadowLag]

 

[VN1X]

"diverse cast" already has me hating the direction. Stop hiring people based on their race or gender and hire based on their talents FFS.

I'm fully on board with all of this if by the end they also remake Tarzan and have a black guy swinging on vines and munching down bananas.

 

[sCHOCOLATE]

I’m not really sure how they can start fresh with a lot of people interested. Best part of X-Files was the monster of the week episodes, so if they lean hard on that aspect then it might be ok. Good luck replicating Mulder and Scully’s on screen chemistry. They’ve tried that already and it didn’t work.
Still……They Never Did Find the rest of The Peacock Family in the “Home” episode

Thank God for that. I have the BD set. The season four disc has gotten the least playtime because of this episode and the stupendous make-up job for such a hideous character.

 

[Lasha]

How would this even work when the word “alien” is “problematic” in itself?

We call them undocumented extraterrestrials now. Sorted.

 

[jshackles]

I hate literally everything about this

 

[Ownage]

New X-Files Series Coming From Creed And Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler - SlashFilm

Original series creator Chris Carter is claiming Coogler plans to 'remount' the long-running TV show 'with a diverse cast.'

www.slashfilm.com

Diverse as in DEI? Incoming tranny Scully and black femme Domme Mulder.

Or just have DD as his Twin Peaks character.

Please, no more DEI. We've had enough of that.

 

[badblue]

I think I'll rewatch the original instead.

 

[cormack12]

They barely pulled it off with the original beloved cast. And I'd argue even similar shows like the outer limits and fringe didn't even get close to what the x-files was at its zenith.

Even with Doggett and Reyes I thought it fell off massively, though the continuations gave me closure. This will fail, and massively. And everyone can see it a mile off.

 

[JayK47]

Black woman and transgender woman confirmed. They will spend each episode complaining and saying which one is more oppressed. No cases solved. Canceled after 3 episodes.

 

[eddie4]

 

[jshackles]

Black woman and transgender woman confirmed. They will spend each episode complaining and saying which one is more oppressed. No cases solved. Canceled after 3 episodes.

If only.

The studio will keep funding it, even though it's universally panned and mocked relentlessly. They'll somehow get through 4-5 seasons of this schlock while simultaneously cancelling good shows that people actually enjoy. You'll flip through the channels one day, years from now, and see that there's a new episode premiering. You'll think, "damn, how is this show still on the air? It was so bad." And you'd be right, but the studio's got a diversity quota to fill, and creative accounting to perform. We just have to deal with the fallout of those policies and decisions.

 

[Drew1440]

Id rather they bring back The Lone Gunman spinoff, it had potential and one of the best intros.

 

[ANDS]

Jesus Christ the absolute fragility of some of you.

And XFILES may have been a trailblazing genre show, but others - including FRINGE which absolutely was better in the long run than XFILES with that original series ending - have come and shown on what it means to be fun, episodic science fiction.

. . . I'm all for a reboot, but it needs to have more of a hook than "aliens among us."

 

[cormack12]

And XFILES may have been a trailblazing genre show, but others - including FRINGE which absolutely was better in the long run...

 

[RJMacready73]

I am a huge xfiles fan. Rewatch the whole series every 5 years or so.

I'm fine if they try something new like a new show about 2 fbi agents investigating supernatural stuff. But if they try to remake xfiles this is going to fail so hard.

Massive fan here and probably due a 4th rewatch tbf but I'm bating my way through Stargate again.

I'd love to see a new xfiles show where new agents uncover the casefiles and start looking into them, solve some big high profile case and then are assigned to work their way through them by someone/organisation with a hidden agenda e.g. Vape smoking man, giving us a chance to revisit classic episodes through new agents but I am seriously missing some good old monster/alien conspiracy TV show

 

[Badlucktroll]

I want to see a followup to Home where we see what happened to the rest of the Peacock family

 

[PC Gamer]

Diverse cast.

Let me guess... one black woman and one black "woman".

 

[Kacho]

So the key selling point is X-Files with a diverse cast? Ok.

 

[Punished Miku]

I am a huge xfiles fan. Rewatch the whole series every 5 years or so.

I'm fine if they try something new like a new show about 2 fbi agents investigating supernatural stuff. But if they try to remake xfiles this is going to fail so hard.

You should check out The Outsider on HBO sometime. Just a single season. You'll probably be into it. I was.

 

[John Bilbo]

So assuming this erasure of gingers is a real thing will Scully be the next victim?

 

[daffyduck]

Juice Vaping Man will probably be part a cabal, with the goal of maintaining the systemic oppression of minorities and special interest groups.

Wonder what Mulder and Scully would drive, since the Prius isn't an eyesore anymore, and is a unicorn anyway.

 

[DGrayson]

You should check out The Outsider on HBO sometime. Just a single season. You'll probably be into it. I was.

Thanks. We should also use this thread to put forth hte best X-Files vibe TV shows.

I have seen some of Fringe, it was good i need to pick it back up.

I have seen seasons 1 and 2 of Evil, that was pretty good as well.

 

[ANDS]

No way. Look at the ending to FRINGE versus XFILES. Sure they both pulled those out of their arses, but FRINGE felt like it had earned its ending versus just being cobbled together at the end.

. . .the less said about the "later" seasons post original series finale of XFILES the better.

 

[GeekyDad]

Without David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson? Good luck!

Yeah, if they're not in it, I have little to no interest.

Now, if they are at least part of the regular cast, as maybe higher-ups at this point, I'm totally willing to give it a chance. And there is no effin' better time for this kind of storytelling than now. They can start with fast food, and work their way up to Pokemon Go.

 

[22:22:22]

Ask Demi Lovato.
Also I must be in the extreme minority in that I loved the alien saga aspect of the show. I felt like that culminated in the first movie, but fell off pretty hard after that. Chris Carter absolutely fucked the legacy up of the show with the last few seasons. Especially the last season which was awful.

Different times for sure.

Try Millennium from Chris Carter.