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Disney to reboot X-Files (Disney owns an insane amount of Fantasy/Sci Fi IP)
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<blockquote data-quote="Homicidal_Squirrel" data-source="post: 9227222" data-attributes="member: 6750031"><p>I mean, sure, it would be great to have the old cast, but that's the problem... they're old. David Duchovny is 63 and Gillian Anderson is 55. Sure, the X-files was never a show which was big on stunts and the actors weren't running and jumping through Michael Bay deathplosion dream sequences, but at their curtrent age, I think they'd come off better as department heads, if they are even in th show. Seeing two old people still doing the conspiracy thing would just make them look like 2 crazy old people who probably have a side-hustle podcast and get interviewed by Joe Rogan.</p><p></p><p>I think the theme of the X-files show was good enough that you can set up a whole new and younger cast and it can succeed. Now, it's goign to require that they do a bit more than just have the same old alien conspiracies as the original. They'll need to branch out. Maybe use some of those conspiracies, and even some of the current real-world conspiracies (space is fake) as a joke that can be tied to some other actually interesting conspiracy. </p><p></p><p>Or, they can just stop trying to bring back these shows that rely on nostalgia, and a ever decreasing viewer group (they just keep getting older and dying), and create a new show that is interesting. We've already seen what happens when you try to bring back old movies and characters that young viewers have no connection with. They don't get what made them cool. Sure, we might, but we're old (get off my lawn!!!).</p><p></p><p>I'd like to see the X-files come back. I'm just not interested in Mulder and Scully being in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Homicidal_Squirrel, post: 9227222, member: 6750031"] I mean, sure, it would be great to have the old cast, but that's the problem... they're old. David Duchovny is 63 and Gillian Anderson is 55. Sure, the X-files was never a show which was big on stunts and the actors weren't running and jumping through Michael Bay deathplosion dream sequences, but at their curtrent age, I think they'd come off better as department heads, if they are even in th show. Seeing two old people still doing the conspiracy thing would just make them look like 2 crazy old people who probably have a side-hustle podcast and get interviewed by Joe Rogan. I think the theme of the X-files show was good enough that you can set up a whole new and younger cast and it can succeed. Now, it's goign to require that they do a bit more than just have the same old alien conspiracies as the original. They'll need to branch out. Maybe use some of those conspiracies, and even some of the current real-world conspiracies (space is fake) as a joke that can be tied to some other actually interesting conspiracy. Or, they can just stop trying to bring back these shows that rely on nostalgia, and a ever decreasing viewer group (they just keep getting older and dying), and create a new show that is interesting. We've already seen what happens when you try to bring back old movies and characters that young viewers have no connection with. They don't get what made them cool. Sure, we might, but we're old (get off my lawn!!!). I'd like to see the X-files come back. I'm just not interested in Mulder and Scully being in it. [/QUOTE]
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