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.
It worked for its time but doing it with a fresh cast is a challenge.
I mean its not going to be the original and to make it like the original is a setup for a guaranteed flop.
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.
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.
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.