Fox eyeing reboot of 'X-Files,' 'Prison Break'

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[BenLurkin]

“It’s been reported and it’s true that we’ve had some conversations on the ‘The X-Files,’” Newman said about the Chris Carter-created sci-fi drama that capped off a nine-season run in 2002.

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“We are hopeful of being able to bring that back at some point,” Newman added.

[BenLurkin]

They will never find a new Scully.

Gillian Anderson made vertically-challenged sexy like nobody else can.

[molson209]

I liked The Lone Gunmen ,did they kill them off because their show was bad ?

[Morpheus2009]

Star Trek, TNG was a sequel, but around that time , Star Trek started turning into a transgender propaganda feat with DS9, then there was the other series that were so far into Bizarro World, or so far down the blender , that I couldn’t really watch them through.

I felt similarly with the Stargate SG-1. I didn’t feel like he other Stargates were worth much.

[V K Lee]

Didn’t the ‘smoking man’ die? (reality blurred)After viewing David D. in the awful movie “Evolution” today, his career is about dead as well. And to think he was ‘the cat’s meow back in the day. When premiered, the X Files was seldom missed. After TV and the X Files movies seen.....it was never thought of again. Go out in Grace, please.

[Morpheus2009]

The show Of The Lone Gunmen had such poor ratings that they cancelled it.

[Morpheus2009]

He is presumed dead shortly after the end of the series because he had lung cancer by the last episode, and he was on life support, so unless he had some miracle, he died a short time later. But he was perhaps my favorite character, especially with his effectiveness and ability to cover up the facts about who he was for so long.

[montag813]

I would watch “24” until Jack Bauer is stealing bed pans in a nursing home. Love that show.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’ve always had a crush on Gillian Anderson.

[Secret Agent Man]

no thank yew.

[wally_bert]

Same here, dedicated Friday night viewing when on the network run. The DVD’s get played every so often.

[Oatka]

The best TV villain in a long time.

I wear this T-shirt and get mixed reactions - some won't make eye contact and others watch me as if expecting to see me change shape. Some of the younger ones will say something like "Right On, Man!". Love it.

[Kit cat]

Prison Break was a great show also, but I can’t see them redoing it!!!!

[tang-soo]

I suppose that after 12 years, spoiler alerts shouldn't be needed, but on the last episode, it's revealed the death of the Lone Gunman was faked - Mulder met them in the desert in the middle of the night. And The Cig Smoking died in a violent fireball on an Indian reservation - also in the final episode.

Though the last movie was horrible (it had nothing to do with the conspiracy, rather a peddy priest and a scientist transplanting heads), I look forward to a revival of the series. I just hope it's quality in the same tradition that STNG followed the original.

[OneWingedShark]

The X-Files? No!!! Because they went through so much conspiracy theory and sci-do material in the original X-Files that there is hardly anything new to do with it. Maybe if they could make a movie set in 2012 about the alien wars with the original cast that would be cool, but I wouldn’t see a need to watch a reboot. Plus, I fear that they wouldn’t capture the scare factor as well.

A better idea would be to take the conspiracy-side of things in X-files, add in the creepy big-brother technology/overtones of Person of Interest, extract out the meat of the real-life conspiracies of the IRS's political targeting, the NSA and DEA's domestic spying, the FDA and EPA's agenda-/money-based regulatory systems, the big business interests (prison-industrial, military-industrial, and medical-/agricultural-industrial complexes), and Agenda 21… all together as your setting… that could make for some damn scary psychological shit.

[Viking2002]

I'm tired of the use of the word 'reboot'. A reboot is what they did with The Night Stalker a few years back. They thought they could CGI in Darren McGavin in the premiere to get people hooked, but the show was a shell of the original, and it tanked. There's no way they could 'reboot' The X Files. The competent thing to do (and I'm fully aware that we're talking about Hollywood types here) is to bring it back as a follow-on to the original series, and cast some good, solid character actors in there, not a bunch of multi-culti, flavor-of-the-week 20-somethings. Create a good back-story for where Mulder, Scully, Skinner, et al., all moved on to, and get a stable of creative writers who can think outside the box and put some damn good sci-fi and Spooksville stuff down on paper.

[RJS1950]

The actual follow-up to X-Files was Fringe. In one episode the head of Fringe Division testified in secret before a secret Senate committee and the reference was made as to the Fringe Division’s origin being in the X-Files group.

[EveningStar]

Doesn’t the Smoking Guy teach acting ?

Yes. Bill Davis is very talented.

[Pontiac]

I would like them to reboot Caprica picking up where the original series ended.

[Charles Martel]

They will never find a new Scully.

Gillian Anderson made vertically-challenged sexy like nobody else can.

I saw an article yesterday that linked her with the campaign to bring the show back. If it was accurately reported, it sounds like she's on board. Though it's being termed a "reboot", the intent seems to be to crank it back up with Anderson and Duchovny. Works for me, their characters needn't be thirty-ish for the show to work. Gillian is a hottie for age 46.

[UB355]

The Post-Modern Prometheus. Possibly the best tv episode of all time