We’re trying to keep our geek under control, because he’s kind of whiney and wears glasses as thick as coke bottles, but he’s jumping up and down inside of us watching this leaked X-Files footage that made it’s way on YouTube from WonderCon.
It looks to be the first trailer, and the fact that it’s stayed online for 24 hours seems to signal that Chris Carter et al are ready to get the buzz rolling on this thing before it hits in July.
Perhaps the most exciting thing is that the trailer just looks like a preview for the show on a grand scale, and we miss the show something bad. The first film kind of killed the series, but this one doesn’t have any external weight to hold, no plot lines that we all want answers to.
AICN has some tidbits about the Wondercon panel featuring Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, Gillian Anderson and Why-Won’t-You-Love-Me-David Duchovney, that will be viewable after the jump!
Until then, we know the truth is back out there, under the ice.
- It’s been 10 years… why will the movie be worth the wait? “Because it’ll scare the pants off you,” says Carter. “Because you’ll get to see Mulder and Scully again in a whole new way.” The whole place cheers again. “That’s why.”
- More X-FILES movies? Chris Carter: “Right away.”
- Gillian had a bad first couple of days at the beginning of the movie. She thought it was going to be easy to step back into the role, but she said she just sucked for the first 48 hours. She said it was only two scenes and she hopes that it’ll all kind of dissolve into the rest of the movie. Duchovny added, “Maybe you should tell them which scenes you sucked in.” Throughout the whole panel their back and forth was pure Mulder and Scully… he was light-hearted and there was a kind of flirt to it. It was pretty sweet.
- Getting back to it. Gillian had trouble (she had trained herself not to act like Scully in other performances for nearly 10 years and so her brain resisted going back) and so did Duchovny (he said the instinct for any actor is to improvise and roll with a character, but you can’t do that so much with one with such a huge back history already). What about Carter? Surprisingly easy. “Writing the names Mulder and Scully, which I hadn’t written for 6 years, was the most natural keyboard stroke you could imagine.”
- Mark Snow WILL score the film.
- What about the pre-9/11 Lone Gunmen episode about the plane flying into the WTC? Carter: “I’m not going to touch that one.” And hand it off to Frank. “We were just looking for the most awful crime we could imagine.” He also said that he was stricken when it happened, thinking some crackpot had taken inspiration from the show, but was let off the hook when it was revealed that the 9/11 plan had existed long before the show aired.
- Chris Carter: “I always saw THE X-FILES as a search for God.” No particular religion, but Mulder’s poster “I Want To Believe” says it all.
- They’re still shooting the film… in fact, they flew from shooting all night and stayed awake to come talk to the group.
- Duchovny puts a lot of emotional weight into the Mulder/Scully scenes because he views them as the heart of the movie.
- Amanda Peet plays an FBI special agent named Dakota Whitney and Billy Connolly “plays a man with very long hair.” – Chris Carter
- What subject would you like to have explored in the series. Gillian: “ I always thought that Mulder should… I don’t think we ever did this… but auto-erotic asphyxiation.” “That was the way I was going to die, that was the way Mulder was going to die… Chris?”
- Why not continue the story arc? “When we did the first movie we had an ongoing TV series, so we had to be true to the series and the mythology arc. So, that movie functioned as sort of a big version of the television series. We didn’t have that problem this time. So, we have a chance to do what I would consider to be a really big screen stand-alone movie.”
- Gillian’s favorite episode is BAD BLOOD, which was brought up many times by Duchovny. “She loves Bad Blood… every day it’s ‘Bad Blood-Bad Blood- Bad Blood!’”
