“Mulder?” “SCULLY!”

November 1, 2007 By Tom

Well, it’s about frakkin’ time. According to Variety, “The long-awaited second ‘X-Files’ film is finally a go, with 20th Century Fox setting a July 25, 2008 release date. . . . Studio is keeping the film’s logline under wraps, but stressed the pic is a stand-alone story and supernatural thriller that takes the complicated relationship between Mulder and Scully in new directions.”

Hmm. A two-hour “creature feature.” I’d forgotten that’s what Chris Carter had in mind for The X-Files 2, it’s been so many years since he first started talking about it. I was hoping for a little space-alien conspiracy mythos action. But then, I guess said mythos kinda devolved into chaotic Replicant silliness in the last three seasons of the beloved TV series, so I’m not sure if a movie based on it would have much going for it anyway. In any case, as any good X-Phile knows, the aliens are due to colonize the earth on December 22, 2012, so hopefully their mass invasion on that date will snap Mr. Carter awake and remind him what made his series great (and provide some good storyline fuel for The X-Files 3).

Speaking of space aliens, for those who missed the latest Democratic debates the other night, Dennis Kucinich admitted to having seen a UFO, as recounted in Shirley MacLaine’s latest book, Sage-Ing While Age-Ing:

Kucinich, she writes on pages 143-144 of the book, “had a close sighting over my home in Graham, Washington, when I lived there. Dennis found his encounter extremely moving. The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered, soundless, for ten minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn’t comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.”

That’s cool. The aliens can’t seem to get enough of Washington state (my old stomping grounds), having first widely announced their presence on June 24, 1947, while cruising in formation over the Cascades. But even if the ufonauts decided to use their noospheric ray guns to hypnotize a majority of the American population into voting for Kucinich, I doubt he’d have any better success than past presidents (at least since Kennedy…or maybe Nixon) at finding out what the Cigarette Smoking Man knew…


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