Disney to reboot X-Files (Disney owns an insane amount of Fantasy/Sci Fi IP)

[Henadic Theologian]

Half of these are things developed by Disney and aren't exactly shocking. Who else should own the IP based on a Disneyland ride?

It's not just Disney's own IPs though, although there is plenty of those, but also what they acquired via Lucas Film, ABC, Marvel (which had itself bought out other comic universes over time, and at times produced alot of none Superhero comics), and Fox and soon Hulu, it all ads up to an absurd level of IP combined.

 

[MGibster]

The X-Files was so good ... because it captured the zeitgeist of its time. It was the '90s, and we were all a little ironic and conspiracy-curious.

That's kind of what I was thinking. Even Delta Green, the Call of Cthulhu spinoff that's basically X-Files meets Cthulhu, has moved on. The X-Files pulled from popular ufo conspiracy theories dating back to the 1940s but concentrated in the 1970s and 80s. Those conspiracies haven't really been in vogue for a while, and if we're looking back at the last 20 years it's going to be QAnon, reptoids, and other seriously unpleasant ideas that do actual real harm. I used to think conspiracy theories were fun, but now they're not so fun.

I won't dismiss it out of hand. On occasion, the original X-Files fired on all cylinders giving us great episodes with Toomes and the best episode ever, "Home." I'll give it a chance at least.

 

[Ryujin]

Man, now that I see the whole list of Disney IP, there are so many great crossovers there:
Alien vs. Pirates
Escape from Witch Mountain to the Planet of the Apes
Raiders of the Love Bug
Star Wars: Attack of the Minions

You need to post some of those to the "Absurd Film Ideas" Facebook group.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

That's kind of what I was thinking. Even Delta Green, the Call of Cthulhu spinoff that's basically X-Files meets Cthulhu, has moved on. The X-Files pulled from popular ufo conspiracy theories dating back to the 1940s but concentrated in the 1970s and 80s. Those conspiracies haven't really been in vogue for a while, and if we're looking back at the last 20 years it's going to be QAnon, reptoids, and other seriously unpleasant ideas that do actual real harm. I used to think conspiracy theories were fun, but now they're not so fun.

I won't dismiss it out of hand. On occasion, the original X-Files fired on all cylinders giving us great episodes with Toomes and the best episode ever, "Home." I'll give it a chance at least.

If you thought folks were curious about conspiracies back in the 90s it's much more mainstream now, especially stuff like UFOs and the paranormal.

 

[Spectral Anomaly]

You need to post some of those to the "Absurd Film Ideas" Facebook group.

No, they need to get themselves a job at a movie studio and make them a reality!

 

[Hex08]

Is it just me or just Disney own an insane amount of IP?

So they are rebooting X-Files. This caught me by surprise.

Oh please, no. X-Files was awesome and should be left alone. The world is currently awash in conspiracy theories so unless Disney is going to make it a serialized documentary I don't see the point.

 

[Hex08]

I remember Chris Carter saying at the time that they were just making it up as they went along.

Wasn't the same true of Lost and just about any TV show up until the streaming era (with a few exceptions like Babylon 5)?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Wasn't the same true of Lost and just about any TV show up until the streaming era (with a few exceptions like Babylon 5)?

Honestly, it was when they stopped making it up as they went and conceded to the fans who wanted it to all hang together that Lost ran into trouble.

 

[MarkB]

That's kind of what I was thinking. Even Delta Green, the Call of Cthulhu spinoff that's basically X-Files meets Cthulhu, has moved on. The X-Files pulled from popular ufo conspiracy theories dating back to the 1940s but concentrated in the 1970s and 80s. Those conspiracies haven't really been in vogue for a while, and if we're looking back at the last 20 years it's going to be QAnon, reptoids, and other seriously unpleasant ideas that do actual real harm. I used to think conspiracy theories were fun, but now they're not so fun.

I won't dismiss it out of hand. On occasion, the original X-Files fired on all cylinders giving us great episodes with Toomes and the best episode ever, "Home." I'll give it a chance at least.

Yeah, the zeitgeist back then was "I want to believe, unlike all you cynical folks who doubt anything out of the ordinary."

These days, it'd be "Okay, can you all please stop believing every single wacky conspiracy theory someone tweets at you? Except this one. This one's completely 100% real."

 

[Umbran]

When you can hear them on the nightly news and are inundated with them online? Absolutely.

When the very thing that makes them fun becomes a danger because Yahoos (in the original sense) actually believe them so that our real world is impacted, yeah.