Fox confirms its in talks with Chris Carter to reboot The X Files!!!

I hope it comes back too.

I was a fan of the movie tbh though. I've seen far worse.

If this is true it totally explains why CC didn't want to go on with the After for Amazon - it was a crap show his heart obviously wasn't in. But where did you hear this news about the reboot talks???

Well, this tells us a few things:

1)The existing movie 'franchise' is 100% dead.

2)The Area 51 thing for AMC is not going to happen.

The one thing Carter, Duchovny and Anderson all said couldn't happen was another series. They wanted movies. But they're not going to get them. Carter has no other options, but Duchovny and Anderson do--they still remember the endless grind of making the show. They are not young anymore. They both have TV jobs already. So it comes down to finding a window the two of them are both available, and Anderson sounded VERY reluctant. This could still fail to come off, but since it's a limited-run series, they might work it out.

Carter would not wrap it all up. Hate to tell you. It would end on a cllffhanger. He will not finish the story. He'd try to set things up so they could do more later on. Only the ratings would be pretty poor--even the 24 limited-run didn't do that well.

I think the negotiations will hinge on whether Carter is willing to take this in exchange for giving up his exclusive hold on the franchise. HIs veto power, you might say. He is not in a great bargaining position here. 20th would like to do a movie reboot franchise someday, with new actors, new writers, new producers, real movie director. Carter has been in the way.

I'd say this is a relatively low-risk maneuver by FOX--their ratings have been terrible--their development has been for *beep* They also want to do a Prison Break limited-run. This is where their heads are at now--revisit old hits.

Please understand, when they say "We'd never do this without Chris", they mean they can't. They're contractually obligated to have him involved in some way.

So it comes down to whether he's willing to be reasonable--at a time when his career has been in limbo for 15 years--and whether the actors, Anderson in particular, are willing to commit to the kind of intensive long-term production schedule they hated so much. Duchovny clearly is, but he's already got a series. Anderson has a recurring role on a series, which is much less time-consumptive.

This may happen. If it does, it will suck, and it will tank.

But XF3 is now definitively conclusively dead. DFowley was lying. I was right all along. If this happens, I'll see you at the post-mortem for the crap miniseries.

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Carter is a talented guy and Hollywood knows it - and they know how golden X Files is and they want more of it and so do fans. How many other 90s shows have such a huge active fanbase as X Files? Not so many.

Adam Nixon · The title is misleading, because they're not talking about a true "reboot" of the series, but rather a continuation.. There really needs to be a rule... if it's a continuation of the original series, and the plan is to try and have the original stars back reprising their role, then it shouldn't be called a "reboot." It should be called a "revival", "continuation" or "follow-up series" or something along those lines. Because it doesn't fit into the context of what the term "reboot" suggests, and is needlessly misleading for readers.

Richard Tweedell · Nonsense. Reboot is techno-speak for restart--to start again. When you restart your car after it's died, you're just turning it on again. When you restart anything that has stopped, you're typically picking up wherever you left off. It doesn't inherently imply starting over, starting from scratch, beginning anew.

Adam Nixon · Richard Tweedell The term "reboot" has come to gain a new meaning within the realm of fiction, and a quick google search will yield the following definition: "In serial fiction, to reboot means to discard all continuity in an established series in order to recreate its characters, timeline and backstory from the beginning." (Various sources confirm that when it comes to fictional content, this is the accepted definition.) So yes, when it comes to fiction, "reboot" inherently and explicitly implies a literal restart of something with a complete wipe of the prior continuity/canon. Hence, this article is improper in using the word "reboot." (In reality, it's only being used for cheap clicks because it's a buzzword people hear thrown around a lot, despite being inaccurate to the situation.)