"It's here!"

The teaser trailer from the forthcoming X-Files movie, that is.

Fans at WonderCon were treated to the edgy clip Saturday afternoon which included scenes of dozens of FBI agents walking a line in the snow, poking the ground in search of something, led by the wild-haired Scottish comedian Billy Connolly (is there any other kind of Billy Connolly?). The trailer also includes glimpses of Agents Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) running, looking serious and pensive, leading to a crescendo with Connolly's character screaming "It's here!" and a glimpse of something vaguely human beneath the ice.

The riotous applause was a warm welcome for X-Files TV show and film director Frank Spotnitz, series creator Chris Carter and the stars Anderson and Duchovny who had flown down from the shoot in Canada to San Francisco earlier this morning to appear on the panel at the convention. According to Carter, he had only had 15 minutes of sleep in the last 24 hours.

Looking a little weary and disoriented, the quartet were at first slow to warm to the conventioneers' big welcome, but the four soon got into an easy, if sometimes laconic rapport with each other and the audience. When asked what to expect from the new film, Chris Carter didn't mince words: "It will scare the pants off you," he said. "You will get to see Scully and Mulder together in a whole new way."

When asked what it was like to resume their roles, both Anderson and Duchovny admitted it was a lot more difficult than they expected.

"I had a really bad first couple of days," Anderson said with a resigned laugh. "I thought it would be easy. I came to work very confident, but I just sucked, I sucked for a good 48 hours."

"Maybe you should tell them what scenes you sucked at?" Duchovny suggested, in a way that seemed to hint at the off-screen tension that allegedly existed between the two actors during the show's halcyon days. After the laughter subsided, Duchovny was quick to agree with his co-star.

"I feel the same way, I was woefully unprepared," he said "It was odd because time has passed for these two people. We want to honor the changes but remain true to these two people. I think it's harder to do a role that you haven't done in a long time [because] you have an entire history and visual images [to pull from]."

When asked if it was difficult to write the script for the new film, Chris Carter said that "it was like no time passed at all. Writing the names Mulder and Scully – that I had not written in more than six years – was like the most natural thing."

Carter also said that he believed the X-Files was always about the search for God. "As far as a particular religion, there was no particular religion."

Referring to one of the show's iconic props, the "I want to believe" poster, Carter said "I think that poster on Mulder's wall says it all."

When asked what the most difficult scenes for the film were, both Duchovny and Anderson agreed that it was the scenes that they play together. "Only because we want them to work so well," Duchovny said.

While Carter and the crew refrained from giving too much away about the movie, he did say that actress Amanda Peet plays an FBI agent named Dakota Whitney and Billy Connolly "plays a man with very long hair."

Carter did hint that someone from the rich cast of characters of the show would make an appearance in the movie. When asked if Mulder's foil Alex Krycek would appear – last seen taking a bullet between the eyes on the show – Carter grew cryptic: "We're keeping a secret," said the show's creator. "Nobody's ever really dead on the X-Files."

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=147903



Here's one of the 'Frankie & Larry' TShirts (created by Maru) worn
by some of the Philes in the first row at WonderCon:
(DD is pointing them out to GA in one of the pix 8-)  )

Frankie = Scully
Larry = Mulder
(we're not sure if they're just for the Call Sheet secrecy, or if M&S are undercover and going by those names??)



You can see all of Maru's XF TShirts Here:
http://178931.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/

You can see all of Damien's XF TShirts here:
http://xfilesultimate.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/

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From I09: (Minor SPOILERS)

We just got treated to a very brief clip from the new X-Files movie trailer, featuring a group of mysterious FBI types marching across the icy antarctic snows, with Ringo from the Lone Gunman in the lead, crying out, "We've found it!"

Cut to lightning fast clips of a body being dragged over ice, Scully looking hotter than hell, Mulder looking not so bad himself, and lots of zoomy blurred stuff.

No shots of Exhibit or Billy Connely, though Chris Carter did confirm for the millionth time that they would be in the film along with Amanda Peet as a federal agent.

No word about that giant werewolf we keep hearing about. But director Chris Carter, writer Frank Spotnitz, and stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny were in attendance.
Here's what they had to say about X-Files and 9/11, as well as what it's been like to return to the story after all these years.

Carter kicked things off by saying the film was worth the wait,"Because it will scare the pants off you. You'll see Mulder and Scully again in a whole new way."

Suddenly a bunch of adolescent girls behind us started yelling at Duchovny, "Can you give us your pants?"
Sadly he did not oblige.  ;-) LOL! :-D

A fan asked about the X-Files and 9/11 controversy. (For those who don't know, the pilot episode of X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen is about a plot to crash a hijacked plane into the WTC.) Carter passed the question to Spotnitz, who said:

"We were really upset, and worried that somehow we had inspired the plot. But we were relieved to discover that the plot pre-dated The Lone Gunmen, and that 9/11 had nothing to do with our work. And then once we realized that, my next thought was how the government hadn't known about this plot. There have been a lot of conspiracy theories about the connection between 9/11 and The Lone Gunman, but none of them are true."

Explaining the end of the X-Files series, Carter said:

"There was lots more we could have done but we ended at the right time. Things had changed after 9/11... and now the mood is right once more.
He added that the movie is standalone, though it incorporates elements of the mythology (including the 2012 apocalypse date)."

Anderson said it was hard to get back into character. "I had a really bad couple of days. I thought it would be really easy to step into it and I actually sucked for 48 hours."

Carter said, "I've always thought the series was a search for God."

Anderson said:

"One of my favorite episodes is Bad Blood. Probably because it's one of the only episodes I remember. It was each of our ideas of what took place in an event, and we both got to play the other person's perception of ourselves. So I was moody and bitchy and David was going on and on and on [with the talking]."

Carter's favorite episodes are "Postmodern Prometheus" and "Beyond the Sea" .

http://io9.com/360044/chris-carter-says-911-killed-x+files-but-america-is-ready-for-it-again

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XF2 Teaser Trailer posted by StaticSplitScreen (taken down by FOX) and reposted again here:
(StaticSplitScreen is the Phile who recorded this Teaser though, others have just reposted it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is7F0IgRj4g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO-tbxQv5rg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb6_CNU4GkE


From Agent Extremis:

I'm gonna do my best to describe the Trailer if I can get my hands to stop shaking enough  ;-)

--First we see a fairly close shot of Billy Connolly(Father Joe?) outside in the daytime looking down at something....

---The Screen widens to a large snowy field with FBI agents spread out behind Billy

-- Then we hear Amanda Peet/Agent in Charge Whitney yell out: "Give Him Room!" And then we see her in her FBI Gear walking with the bunch of Agents as she turns around and repeats: "Give Him Room!"

--Cut back to Billy who says: "it's here...."

--Then another scene with the FBI agents as a helicopter flies in
the background.

--Billy shouts out: "It's here!" "

--Then a shot of a person (in a nightgown or a dress??) being dragged over the ground/thru some water/snow

--Then we see the back of Scully's head, with another person standing
across from her. Scully turns around and looks at this person with a look of fear on her face!

--Another wide screen shot of the snowy field , with a line of horses and
riders behind a fence. The FBI agents are approaching them.

--Then a shot inside of a helcopter flying over the field, as someone inside it points down to an area on the field

--Another shot of the snowy field full of agents, with Billy still in the lead.
(also someone has a dog tracking too)

--Close up of Billy.

--Then a shot of something I can't tell what it is??
(Possibly someone/something lying on a hospital table?)

--Then a shot of a dark-haired man (possibly Bad guy) along with two people wearing doctor's scrub uniforms and masks.

--Next someone in dark clothing is dragging what looks to be someone inside a black body bag.
(or something else pretty huge in a large black bag)

--Then we see Billy approach something, surrounded on all sides by
the agents, he appears to bend down towards what he's found.

--Mulder is inside a car which gets broadsided by another vehicle!

--Back to Billy and the agents, where Billy falls down to his knees in
the snow, looking defeated/overwrought.

--Then a full shot of the snowy field with the agents

--Then we see Mulder in a different scene, he's standing up.

--Then what appears to be Mulder and another person ( possibly Whitney) come running like mad into a building towards Scully and other Agents who have flashlights, and they are looking across at something, while shining their lights in that direction.

--Cut to a scene which looks to be a very ill Billy being helped by
Scully.

--Then a quick shot of a scary looking guy in black.

--Then two people come running towards the screen.
(Mulder & Scully??)

--Then a hand is over someone's own face....another scary looking
dude!

--Then what looks like Mulder standing in front of a heavy snowfall/sleet, and it appears he is falling to his knees.

--Then a close up of Billy, and his eyes look like they're bleeding!

--Then a dark night shot,snowy & bare ground, a couple of red flares, and what looks to be Scully with her hair pulled back is approaching.

--Then back to the daylight snowy field... Billy is with an FBI Agent and
they appear to be digging together.

--Then a dark (interior?) shot of what looks like Xantha Radley's character screaming and lunging towards something/away from something.

--Then a shot of Mulder in the daytime, snowy background, he is looking around.

--Then we see Callum Keith Rennie's character's head, submersing himself in water.

--Then Whitney's face is seen as she appears to find something where they were looking in the snowy field, and she jumps back.

--Then the screen goes black, and July 25th/2008 appears in
white lettering.

(And everyone Screams their heads off!!   8-) )
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The X-Files Return
Posted by Steve Duin February 23, 2008 20:24PM

For my money, the big film news out of WonderCon Saturday was the report that the Coen Brothers' follow-up to No Country For Old Men -- the favorite to win Oscar Sunday -- will be Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union.

But the event that drew a crowd easily topping 5,000 to Hall A at the Moscone Center was the appearance of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson to promote The X-Files 2, which will hit theaters on July 25.

Six years after the first movie and 10 years after the television series wrapped up, Duchovny and Anderson flew into San Francisco Saturday with writer/director Chris Carter and writer/producer Frank Spotnitz. Responding to a curious opening question from the 20th Century Fox moderator as to why the film was worth the wait, Carter said, "Because it will scare the pants off you. Because you'll get to see Muldur and Scully again in a whole new way. That's why."

Both Anderson and Duchovny -- who were filming in Vancouver as late as Friday night -- admitted they had a tough time regaining their balance in their famous roles as FBI agents investigating the paranormal. "I thought it would be easy to step back into it," Anderson said, admitting she was much too cavalier when she arrived on set. "But I just sucked. I sucked for 48 hours."

"It was odd," Duchovny added. "Time has passed for these two people and we wanted to honor the changes they've gone through as well as what keeps them the same people."

Part of her problem, Anderson said, is that she has always had an intuitive grasp of Scully's character, but that since the TV series ended in May 2002, she has purposefully sought acting jobs that won't remind viewers of the character. Thus, when she got on set, Anderson said, "My brain kept saying, 'Stop, stop, you're sounding like Scully.' That's something I didn't anticipate."

The X-Files 2 will also star Amanda Peet and Billy Connolly.

Carter and Spotnitz were also asked about The Lone Gunmen, the X-Files spin-off that premiered on March 4, 2001 and featured a terrorist plot to fly a hijacked airplane into the World Trade Center. "I was disturbed," Spotnitz said, "that if we could imagine it that our government ... didn't."

Carter later talked about imagination and horror in the post-9-11 world: "I can't think of anything off-hand that we didn't do that we wanted to do (in the series). We ended X-Files at the right time. There was a big change in the country after 9-11. I hope it's coming back at the right time. I hope the mood is right."

And when he asked about the recurring spiritual themes in the series, Carter noted, "I always thought of X-Files as a search for God. That's a big part of the inspiration. I want to believe the poster on Muldur and Scully's wall really says it all."

You do remember the poster, don't you?

To warm the crowd up for Duchovny and Anderson, 20th Century Fox also brought out Rachael Taylor (Transformers) and James Kyson Lee ("Heroes"), the stars of the upcoming horror/thriller Shutter, which is due out in March (click here for the trailer). Taylor and Joshua Jackson are newlyweds vacationing in Japan who stumble into the realm of "spirit photography," in which images of the dead are caught on film.

WonderCon Video Clips courtesy of StaticSplit Screen, rhoboat77 and nerualcm  8-)

1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_ObTRaY7I

2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_9ontKuQL4

3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvNr51cRZd8

4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoy7tvV4BXU

5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kkWDa-KotA

6.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ApZgtHyXM


Still MORE WonderCon Vids from nerualcm  8-)

1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNhvzYj9UvY

2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBgvRObvBI8

3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHMnHL6V1PI

4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J5kO7MUpjI


More Vids from rhoboat77

1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vKwBT6FItU

2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUVasWIyFKQ

3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8g8pm_CJNg

4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Ugzy-tmFY

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check out the longer version of DD teasing Gilly  here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHMnHL6V1PI

Another from nerualcm  8-)

1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiRAjJVv2g0

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