X-Files fans (or X-Philes) will probably be rejoicing now that Fox Mulder and Dana Scully will be back with more. The good news about the movie is that it won’t be following that complex alien’s take over the Earth storyline they had going before.

The film, which remains without a formal title, will dump the long-running “mythology” plotline - that aliens live among us and are part of a colonizing effort - that made it one of the most popular television shows in the late 1990s but ultimately drove away some viewers who found it too complex and ambiguous.

“We spent a lot of time on (the mythology) and wrapped up a lot of threads” when the show went off the air in 2002, says Chris Carter, creator of the series and director of the new movie. “We want a stand-alone movie, not a mythology conspiracy one.”

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I think I might actually get into this one. I liked many of the stand-alone episodes, but that huge aliens story kind of lost me when I missed a show or two.

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The release for X-Files 2 is now set for July 25, 2008. From the articles I have read, I can tell you that it will be a standalone movie that won’t delve into the complicated government conspiracy stuff the last film explored. It will however, take the complicated relationship Mulder and Scully have in new directions. Hmmm. I wonder what that means!

In case you’re wondering, one of the articles I found said the first X-Files movie made a cool $187 million world-wide at the box office, $83.9 million at home.

I’m not sure how excited I am to see this movie, although I was a huge fan of it when it was on TV. I’ll wait until I start seeing trailers for it.

For more news, check out countingdown.com. They have a cool counter that will tell you exactly how long it will be until the movie comes out!

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Hmmm, seems they’re finally getting things rolling again.

The “X-Files” film sequel is heating up. Co-star David Duchovny indicated Saturday during the Television Critics Association press tour that the film, which has been the subject of speculation for the past few years, is one step closer to becoming a reality.

“I’m supposed to see a script next week,” Duchovny said at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, adding that creator Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz wrote the screenplay and that Carter is set to direct.

Duchovny also reiterated past remarks that he and “X-Files” co-star Gillian Anderson “are on board” the follow-up to the 1998 film and the series that ran on Fox from 1993 to 2002.

Yahoo!

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