Film franchise in question
X-Files creator Chris Carter dishes on the big screen situation
Q Would you consider doing another X-Files movie?
A “I think certainly there is another movie in The X-Files. I think you’d see something, though, that is more in keeping with what we did in the first movie, a big-screen story. We tried to do a very small intimate story about faith in the second movie, and I think that people’s appetite for the big screen requires now a spectacle approach.”
Q What lessons did you learn from fans’ disappointment in the second film?
A “I think what we were asked to do in the second movie was really kind of superhuman and supernatural in its own way. We were asked to do a small movie, a small budget movie, a PG-13 movie, and to come out versus big tentpole, $100 million, $200 million movies in the summertime, so I think we got lost in the shuffle.”
Q How would a new X-Files movie win over fans?
A “I think (the disappointment in the second film) spoke to what X-Files fans really want from the show if they’re going to pay their money at the box office to see something. They want a spectacular. They want something like they got in the first movie, which had scope, which had relevance to the characters’ relationship, and progressed that methodology and that conspiracy in interesting and larger than life ways.”
(Fans) want a spectacular. They want something like they got in the first movie.