Although the second X-Files movie, I Want To Believe, wasn’t an all conquering box office titan, its $68 million worldwide gross was good enough that it appears Fox haven’t given up on bringing Mulder & Scully back to the screen for another movie (especially as the second film only cost $30 million to make).
Although at the moment it’s all very much rumour and speculation, Bloody Disgusting (via X-Files News and the Croatian website Dnevnik), is reporting that in an interview at The Sarajevo Film Festival, Gillian Anderson told Dnevnik, “Of course I would accept to play in a new X-Files movie”, adding that a third movie is currently in the works, with plans to film it in 2012.
Bloody Disgusting added to this with rumours that they’ve heard there’s talk of a new film being a franchise reboot (so does that mean Mulder and Scully handing the reins over to a new team of supernatural investigators?). To be honest, making a new film and introducing Mulder and Scully replacements would be a good way to set up a new X-Files TV series, although that’s pure speculation at the moment.
As things stand, all this should be taken as rumour, but as X-Files is still a decent way to make money, expect to hear more from the franchise in the future, whether it’s a new film, TV series or something else.