• People must have X Files Three!Totally forget negative talk.Realize X Files is the greatest sci-fi show of all time bar none.Prove to the world that you can do it,Chris and Frank.My God Cyhris Carter X Files & Millineum both were major hits.This can be made into a great movie.If only you knew the following X Files has. So Do It!! SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES! Gil Pearson

• It should come out in January of 2013 and have them wondering what the hell they're going to do now that nothing has happened.

• hopefully this movie will only be about the smoking guy. I have no idea what his name is as I've only seen enough bits and pieces of the show to fill 1 episode. I also don't follow heroes, battlestar galactica, lost, terminator, and the a-team. I understand that these shows are very serious dramas and require a lot of attention but I just don't have the attention span that you do. Another problem is I cannot be trusted with commercials. If I buy another slap chop I'm totally not going to be able to eat this week.

• Huh. Guess I'm the only one who'd only watch this if it DIDN'T involve aliens. Every damn time an alien thing popped up in X-Files I got instantly bored. I much prefered the supernatural/weird humans side of the programme.

• The only part of the second movie I did not like was that Scully and Mulder hooked up officially. The story itself felt more like classic X-Files in an extended episode format. The ending wrapped up much like episodes did, which was usually the only lead or suspects died or were captured but the origin of the story or events could not be backtraced further. In all X-File episodes you had one of three outcomes, Mulder was right, Scully was right, or both were wrong. I think the second movie did very well in that fashion of not revealing too much and keeping all the explanations murky but that outlook gets lost on everyone except the most devoted of fans. It's hard to retool a stylistic television series to appeal to broader audience.

• The X-Files is one of my favorite tv shows, although it should have ended after the sixth season. I thought the first move was great, and never saw the second one after hearing how utterly terrible it was and deciding not to put myeslf through the emotional turmoil. I guess I'm opposed to a third movie, unless Chris Carter wants to resurrect the tv series theres no need for one. It hard for me to admit it, but it's just to late to continue on with the mythology. I really want to believe but...(sob)

• OMG THERE WAS A SECOND!!!!!!

• Aren't Scully n Mulder to old to be chasing aliens? Didn't the last movie send them out to enjoy their retirement on some island... I hope David Duchovny is smart enough to know he's got a good gig in Californication, I hate to see him drop something good for something that is going to bomb. Maybe Gillian Anderson can joing Californication to bring back that relationship everyone seems to be missing.

• No attachment to The X-Files, but I'd hate for the fans to go through a similar scenario to 'I Want to Believe' again...

• Honestly, X-Files should just be left to die with all the series that should never be touched again in Hollywood. It's well and good hoping for something good coming out of it but...seriously. I'm sorry but hoping does you no good. We all see the same stuff coming out of Hollywood lately. One can hope all they want, it doesn't change the fact that there will never (ever) be that creative spark returning to those old and creative shows like X-Files. They will hire random people and they will make it suck simply because it appears that most writers in Hollywood don't seem to understand the concept of using the source material with any degree of effectiveness. It would be a show about Mulder with a thousand yard stare that tells you he's been through Hollywood's ringer and is on the edge of the actor equivalent of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. He'll be thrilled for the paycheck. Gillian Anderson would be chewing so much scenery because of, finally, another starring (visible) role that they would need to replace the sets halfway through. And the big reveal would be such a joke that the greatest of fans would just notice the last ten minutes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind were lifted and spliced into their movie. And yet, somehow, Scully would claim that she didn't see anything and that Mulder was indeed a loon. Even though he wasn't actually there, because he was taken by the aliens, because by the end it just seemed like Scully could rationalize just about ANYTHING. "Dear god, it's an alien!" "That's just...uh...a midget in a rubber suit. Yeah..." Yeah, I know, I sound a little bitter. But get burned enough, you stop being optimistic.

• @ ManWIthPez: Walter is great in Fringe, isn't he? But isn't it funny how he played a lunatic in "LOTR: The Return of the King' as well? He's just a nutty guy I guess. Kinda like John Malkovich plays the swearing and downright nasty parts in movies so well. Fringe finally worked it's magic on me, although it took a bit of time for me not to look at this show and point out out every place that they had ripped off some other movie or series.

• I Want To Believe that a third movie to tie it all up will be good... but I can't.

• Not for nothing, but do we really need an X-files reboot now that Fringe is here? Granted, Fringe isn't as creepy cool as X-files was in the beginning, because there's usually some evidence of what happened at the end of the episodes, unlike the X-files, and almost a decade of that can become tired. But, if this is true, they might be trying to fill a slot that's already filled. And, filled better than they could do it, at this point. Long live Mulder and Scully, but Mulder and Scully are dead (speaking media-wise). Long live Olivia and Peter and Walter (and Astrid). They filled the void left in me when X-files started to suck.

• I meant "write", not "right". I'm an idiot at typing.

• @ FuryOfFirestorm: I was with ya all the way, right up to the "hot, passionate sex on top of the alien corpses" part. I'm not gonna get that out of my head for a while. You sure you don't right some of that FFF?

• The way the show ended pissed me off.It should have ended like this... 1) Mulder breaks into Area 51, steals a UFO and dead aliens, then goes on live TV screaming, "I TOLD YOU SO, MOTHERFUCKERS!" 2) The Lone Gunmen find Cigarette Smoking Man's diaries and photos, revealing the truth behind JFK's assassination. They go public with it and make millions from book and movie deals. 3) While exposing aliens on live TV, Fox tells Dana he loves her, and they have hot, passionate sex on top of the alien corpses. The ratings are higher than the last episode of M*A*S*H, Seinfeld and Friends COMBINED.

• Yeah, I don't see a third movie as beating a dead horse; rather, it's a chance to give a proper conclusion to the entire story, which I think X-Files desperately needs. I thought the second movie was okay. It was cool to see the characters again and see where they are now, but I don't think it added a lot to X-Files as a whole. It really did seem like a typical Monster-of-the-Week episode, only in the present time. If another movie is made that ties the mythology up, this movie won't have been so bad in retrospect, as just another Mulder & Scully adventure.

• The show relied on that hard-to-pin down early 90's government conspiracy zeitgeist we had going on. Pop culture has moved on, and the show is an artifact of a decade long gone.

• I own every episode of The X-Files on DVD. I watched them all in a marathon, three or four years ago. Truly one of the best TV shows of all time, and a very important one. I don't think television would be the same today without it. While I haven't seen "I Want To Believe" yet, I very much like the idea of a third movie. The finale of the TV show set the date of the final alien invasion of Earth as 2012. Never mind how relevant it is to today's attention-deficit audiences; it'd be a shame if they never got a chance to finish things off. It wouldn't have to be confusing to anybody: aliens are going to invade, and Mulder and Scully have to stop them. It's the same basic premise as any other sci-fi blockbuster.

• I rather enjoyed the first movie, but it wasn't long after that I became sick of the alien invasion plot going absolutely nowhere, and the stand-alone episodes weren't very compelling. The only way I'd want to see a third X-Files movie is if it properly and conclusively finished off the alien invasion story and tied into the 2012 deadline. Although how you finish off a story that spanned 7 seasons 7 years ago and that only the most hardcore fans would remember I don't know!

• Used to be a huge X-Files fan. And then David Duchovny left and I just lost complete interest in the show. The show was already taking the proverbial spiral down the toilet before David left. First motion picture came out. I was excited. It stunk. Poor people who didn't follow the series must have been pretty lost and scratching their heads at the theaters. Second movie comes out and I said to myself, "OK, give it a second chance." It stunk. Now a third? Please leave the dead horse buried and stop digging it back up. I won't be ponying up anything for this movie.

• I just watched "IWTB" X-Crap this past Sat. nite. As a former fan since its beginning, I'd like to quote In Lving Color's "Men on Film": HATED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• For the record, TXF was on Fridays until the middle of the fourth season, then switched to Sunday nights. And the first movie didn't tank THAT hard, it just didn't do spectacularly well. Personally, I believe this *could* work if they brought more of the old creative team back to work on a GOOD story and if they promised no more tries after this. But IWTB was bad. Horrible. Wretched. I lived and breathed for this series, even the God-awful last 2 seasons, and THAT was my payoff? It's been almost a year later, and I'm only now beginning to admit to myself how BAD the second movie was. But I don't think it's the fault of the franchise falling into obscurity--just look how successful Iron Man was!--but the result of an insanely bad script and a rushed production. Because the writer's strike was looming, Chris Carter and crew were told that they needed to make the movie right then or it wouldn't be made at all. In retrospect, the latter would've been smarter, but they went ahead anyway and shot the whole and edited thing in maybe 6 months. Not good when you have a shoddy-at-best script.

• this just proves if the rumor is true that holly wood refuses to let franchises like xfiles die in peace they would rather run them into the ground.

• Considering all the comments above I'm pretty stoked for a thrid movie for 2012. But after that, no. (Just a side note I heard the second movie was not a tank it just didn't do well in the states.)

• Carter, or the top producers, have said that they would like to do a third movie focusing on the alien invasion in 2012. Carter himself said that if they get the greenlight from the studio and get the actors in and a script and all that shit, he would like to release it around christmas 2012, which fits with the whole mythology of the show. The first movie was pretty good because it had to do with the mythology of the show, plus we got to see what these crazy aliens looked like finally. I thought the second movie was okay but only in the sense that it could have been a 40 minute MOW episode. It didn't hack it as a feature film. If they do intend to go ahead with a third movie, I think it will definitely be better than the other 2 because it is an ending to the mythology/story and everyone loves some aliens.

• @Kevin I don't think any amount of explaining can tie up "WAAAAAAAAAAALT!"

• I think X-Files was on Sunday nights? Not Fridays?

• JOE, Lost is better than most series, in that the writers do seem to have a general plan they're following and purposely set up a timeframe in which to do it. It's not perfect, but I think when the series is over, it will have told a complete story with no major loose ends.

• Uhhhhh, no. Bad idea. I was the most fanatic X-Files fan back in the day... I stuck around for all of the seasons, even up until the weird, convoluted, "let''s pull everything out of our asses and once and throw it on the screen" finale and I am 100% against this idea. Let it die with as much (or little) dignity as it has left, Chris Carter. PLEASE

• a couple of reasons why i think this wont work...1, Gillian Anderson is saying this on some really random Serbian interview. Id figure, if some celebrity want to leak a story about a movie you would think it would be on some BBC, French, German news show. 2, I think David Duchovny is having too much fun doing Californication

• From what I heard when the second movie came out is that they intended to make the third to finish off the series for good, but he made the second to renew interest since it had been done for so long. Not a very smart move, but I don't buy this reboot rumor. He's dumb, but he's not that dumb.

• This is why I refuse to get into shows like Lost. I've seen this thing with the X-Files, I saw it with Twin Peaks. They start out good by hooking you, but then after episode after episode of yanking your chain, you slowly come to the realization that the writers never had a clevery intricate master plot set up. Instead, they were just making up shit as they went along until they finally run right out of steam.

• Totally disagree. I want a third X-Files movie badly, just so they can finally wrap up the alien invasion storyline. As it's supposed to happen in 2012, the timing would be perfect. A reboot, though? Horrible idea.

• I would only be down if there were aliens in it. I was 100% disappointed with I Want to Believe. No aliens, who wants to watch that.

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