Current Events > The X-Files is returning!!! In cartoon form...

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/x-files-animated-comedy-in-the-works-at-fox

Fox is looking to reopen The X-Files in animated form.
The network is developing a comedic, animated take on the beloved series that will focus on a new set of characters a B-team of agents working in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The potential series is called The X-Files: Albuquerque and centers on an office of misfit agents who investigate cases too wacky, ridiculous or dopey for Scully and Mulder. The concept is similar to that of CBS All Access' Star Trek: Lower Decks, which focuses on low-level Federation workers.
Fox has ordered a script and presentation for the project. Disney's 20th Television, which produced the original series and its two-season revival, and Fox-owned animation studio Bento Box Entertainment (Bob's Burgers) are producing.
Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko (Paradise PD, Brickleberry) are writing and executive producing. X-Files creator Chris Carter will also exec produce via his Ten Thirteen Productions, along with series veteran Gabe Rotter.
Fox has made a concerted push to develop new animated properties in the past couple of years to join long-running staples The Simpsons, Family Guy and Bob's Burgers. Bless the Harts and Duncanville are set to begin their second seasons in 2020-21, and the network has also given newcomers The Great North which has already been renewed for a second season and Housebroken on deck. Both shows are animated by Bento Box. Fox also made a direct broadcast deal with Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon that includes a series commitment for an animated show.
The X-Files has been animated once before on Fox in a manner of speaking. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny played Dana Scully and Fox Mulder on a 1997 episode of The Simpsons called "The Springfield Files."

Uhhhhhhhhh

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Wow. That sounds aggressively awful. Why try to rip off Lower Decks of all things?

uh how about

don't do that

If you have to animate The X Files, animate the ending to the story?

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they just introduced a pair of new agents. why not just continue the story with them?

(full disclosure, I liked Doggett and Reyes)

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https://giphy.com/gifs/season-12-the-simpsons-12x15-3orifd3BFOkHWkhwGs

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In my restless dreams I see that style: CalArts.

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Did they never finish the story?

They ruined the main series with the revival season and then I didn't see the follow on season.

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Hexenherz posted...

Did they never finish the story?

They ruined the main series with the revival season and then I didn't see the follow on season.

Oh shit I completely forgot about the last season. I just thought everything wrapped up at the 2nd film, which was very meh btw.

Medussa posted...

(full disclosure, I liked Doggett and Reyes)

Can't go wrong with Robert Patrick. Probably his 2nd best and most notable role behind the T-1000.

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I didn't even see the second movie so maybe that's why I was so confused by everything in the revival season.

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I'm sure it'll be just as good as the Star Trek cartoon was
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My problem with the end of the original series is that there was no end. It's nice they wrap up Fox's stuff but did they explain anything else?

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Hexenherz posted...

I didn't even see the second movie so maybe that's why I was so confused by everything in the revival season.

imo it was....well.....more or less on par with Dexter's finale/final episode. Same actors but they're bad versions of themselves and the story was a boring waste of time. Ending wasn't a slap in the face like Dexter but it was incredibly unfulfilling and rushed. Would've worked better as a one-off episode. Haven't seen the 11th season but I assume it rectified that.

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Zangulus posted...

Actually, the second Xfiles movies was a one off episode slated for Season 10. After the show got cancelled, they basically made it double length, which made it even more boring. But the biggest problem was how they half assed around the end of the Season 9.

No wonder it was so strangely "off" in comparison to the first movie, not to mention it wasn't even that long. I had to look it up and even though it felt like a drag, it's a smidge above feature length lol. What a mistake.

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If I'm going to watch animated X-Files, it better star The Lone Gunmen, not randoms.

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