This is an older article, but there is still no news about whether or not Ryan Coogler's X-Files will go to series.
https://screenrant.com/ryan-coogler-x-f … esh-patel/

Interestingly enough chris recently met with David and was going to be speaking to Gillian soon

He has his continuation idea.  I think he is well aware coogler now gets first dibs to steer the universe. 

It would be interesting if coogler elevated the franchise, but didn't have his own mulder/scully storylines and coogler ended up helping get Chris another shot to continue the franchise..  Disney would likely be weary if Carter could do anything that would make commercial sense since the property has become niche and its mythology but one never knows. Coogler could  make X files ip so big again that Disney just wants more and carter benefits.

Gillian of course has been weary of Chris at this point but I think she recognizes that there are a lot of fans, including female fans, and would be thinking of them too, if Carter was the only route to continue.

She obviously would jump at a coogler project. But it might not make sense for him creatively to merge his storylinss with mully/Scudder and I doubt he would do it for the sake of it.

Bill walks into the woods. A light flies out of the trees and into the sky and is gone.

The CSM glares at Scully and especially at Mulder. They stare back at him, stupefied. The CSM turns away and stalks off into the night, deflatedly miserable. Mulder and Scully watch him go, too dazed and shell-shocked to act.

MULDER: "Scully?"

SCULLY: "Mulder."

MULDER: "You know when I said there wasn't much point in making 2013 dinner reservations for our anniversary next year?"

SCULLY: "You said the restaurant probably wouldn't be in business during an alien invasion of Earth."

MULDER: "I may have been selling our planet short."

SCULLY: "Well. Whaddaya gonna do."

haha

The CSM glares at Scully and especially at Mulder. They stare back at him, stupefied. The CSM turns away and stalks off into the night, deflatedly miserable. Mulder and Scully watch him go, too dazed and shell-shocked to act.

MULDER: "Scully?"

SCULLY: "Mulder."

MULDER: "You know when I said there wasn't much point in making 2013 dinner reservations for our anniversary next year?"

SCULLY: "You said the restaurant probably wouldn't be in business during an alien invasion of Earth."

MULDER: "I may have been selling our planet short."

SCULLY: "Well. Whaddaya gonna do."

The X-Files: Reborn

Instead of "My Struggle," we start in 2016 with "Reborn." We have Mulder and Scully just as they were in the Revival: Mulder living alone, Scully a doctor, both of them amicably broken up. Earth doesn't seem to have been Colonized. In my version, Mulder and Scully meet up once a month for lunch. We join them for their latest meetup and they have a weird conversation where Scully talks about how she's so distant from the world of investigating aliens now that she forgets that she believes in them.

Mulder says that believing or disbelieving in them makes no difference anymore. We hint that SOMETHING happened on December 22, 2012 -- and this uninvaded Earth is the outcome.

Skinner calls. He needs help. There's been a series of brutal murders. The killer painted on the walls in the victims' blood, writing ALIEN CONSPIRATOR, HUMAN COLLABORATOR and TRAITOR. Mulder, an 'expert' in alien conspiracies, is rehired by the FBI to look into it and Mulder makes it a condition that Scully's rehired too. They begin investigating.

The victims are FEMA employees, bureaucrats at the Mount Weather military complex, people who worked in the Strughold Mining Company, the Galpex Corporation -- and Mulder realizes: all these people were part of the Syndicate's plan to pave the way for Colonization in 2012. The killer is targeting conspirators whom he hates for selling out the human race.

The killer takes a Strughold Mining office hostage and threatens to blow himself and the employees up unless the conspirators show themselves. Mulder is sent in to negotiate. He tells the killer: the lead conspirators are all dead now. The killer's been pointlessly targeting their support staff. The killer insists that Colonization must have started in 2012, covertly and secretly.

Mulder says the aliens are not coming. The killer asks why. Mulder says its' because of the X-Files.

Flashback to 2012. Mulder and Scully are running around the woods, hunted by Billy Miles and Knowle Rohrer. Confronted by the Smoking Man (probably a supersoldier with his face) declaring the end has come, it could not have ended any other way. A light in the sky is descending upon them. The CSM says it is the first to herald the rest and Mulder will accept his place now as nothing and Scully can watch as the human race dies.

The light descends to ground level behind some trees and then someone emerges from the woods. 

It is Bill Nighy in a business suit.

Mulder, Scully, the supersoldiers and the CSM gape. 

"Errrm. Hello, all," says Bill. "So sorry to disappoint, I know you expected a bigger to-do, but it's just me. Yes, yes. Ah, if the ground staff would disperse, there's no need for any of this, thanks." 

The CSM looks on in dismay as the supersoldiers walk off without a word.

"And Agents Mulder and Scully," says Bill. "Thank you for your diligence and care in assembling these records, these summaries, these 'X-Files.'" Bill holds up a thick file folder. "I apologize that... well, Purity is a very busy operation, we don't get around to reading every transmission beamed into space, but this has certainly been in the queue, yes."

Scully looks at Mulder and Mulder awkwardly explains that, for posterity, he transmits the X-Files digital records into space.

"Yes, good work, both of you. Very detailed, very thorough, and upon reviewing everything you've documented, we've decided, well, this Colonization business -- it's just not our business after all."

"What!?" the CSM sputters. "You can't call it off!"

"Look here!" Bill snaps. "We didn't resurrect you as a supersoldier just to take your guff! And let me tell you: this entire planet seems to us to be a veritable bill of goods! We're a biotechnology focused species. We do genetic colonization on a cellular level and we operate on procedures and protocols that adapt to meet biological challenges. We do not engage with the brand of peculiarity we're seeing on your planet in these casefiles. What even is a Tooms or a Flukeman? What is El Chubacabra and why would we colonize that? What is this Cops TV show? The demon Azazel? What would Ronnie Strickland do to our biology? We're scientists and engineers! We don't play around with super intelligent water or Bermuda Triangles or the anthropomorphic representation of death or anything involving this absurdity you call 'God.' We don't even have a coherent sense of how your species resurrects across eight separate cases and two of those are ours! Thanks but no thanks. This soul eater of yours? You can keep it. No, so sorry. This was all a mistake. We'll find another planet that doesn't operate on bizarre metaphorical 'rules' that seem to shift or be replaced with each casefile, all of which defy any system of information management. We apologize for the quality of this translation. We had difficulty finding the appropriate avatar for a message of this nature. We've also sent this same message to the other world manipulating conspiracy group, the Millennium people, we get you two confused. Agent Mulder, fondest regards for warning us off. Be well."

Bill walks into the woods. A light flies out of the trees and into the sky and is gone.

We cut back to the present. The killer doesn't believe Mulder and triggers the countdown on his bomb vest; Mulder successfully overpowers him and pulls him away from the hostages and locks the killer in a steel vault filled with Syndicate artifacts. Mulder dives out of the vault and lets the door shut as the explosion consumes the killer and all that is left of Colonization on Earth, sparing Mulder and the hostages.

Mulder and Scully prepare to leave the FBI and return to their post-X-Files lives only to discover that in the 14 years since they left, there've been a sizable number of new cases with potential monsters of the week.

They realize that even without aliens, the X-Files still remain with many cases left to investigate...

funny.  so this is a way to revive and reboot.

chris carter might be offended but it's quirky alright.

The movie still seems to be missing some key points of characterization like a final and on-camera farewell to Father Joe (his last scene was scripted and shot but cut from the theatrical version and still absent in this one). The new edit has has even less characterization for the already personality-starved Dakota Whitney, and it still ends with Mulder and Scully discussing an administrative matter of whether Father Joe should be exonerated of one of the 38 crimes of which he is accused.

It's interesting: while the leaden pace of the original film is removed, removing flaws doesn't seem to make the movie better, just less tedious. "Not as boring as the original" is, I suppose, high praise for Chris Carter these days.

Anyway. I myself have been writing a director's cut of an X-Files story I conceived in 2016.

The X-Files: Reborn

Instead of "My Struggle," we start in 2016 with "Reborn." We have Mulder and Scully just as they were in the Revival: Mulder living alone, Scully a doctor, both of them amicably broken up. Earth doesn't seem to have been Colonized. In my version, Mulder and Scully meet up once a month for lunch. We join them for their latest meetup and they have a weird conversation where Scully talks about how she's so distant from the world of investigating aliens now that she forgets that she believes in them.

Mulder says that believing or disbelieving in them makes no difference anymore. We hint that SOMETHING happened on December 22, 2012 -- and this uninvaded Earth is the outcome.

Skinner calls. He needs help. There's been a series of brutal murders. The killer painted on the walls in the victims' blood, writing ALIEN CONSPIRATOR, HUMAN COLLABORATOR and TRAITOR. Mulder, an 'expert' in alien conspiracies, is rehired by the FBI to look into it and Mulder makes it a condition that Scully's rehired too. They begin investigating.

The victims are FEMA employees, bureaucrats at the Mount Weather military complex, people who worked in the Strughold Mining Company, the Galpex Corporation -- and Mulder realizes: all these people were part of the Syndicate's plan to pave the way for Colonization in 2012. The killer is targeting conspirators whom he hates for selling out the human race.

The killer takes a Strughold Mining office hostage and threatens to blow himself and the employees up unless the conspirators show themselves. Mulder is sent in to negotiate. He tells the killer: the lead conspirators are all dead now. The killer's been pointlessly targeting their support staff. The killer insists that Colonization must have started in 2012, covertly and secretly.

Mulder says the aliens are not coming. The killer asks why. Mulder says its' because of the X-Files.

Flashback to 2012. Mulder and Scully are running around the woods, hunted by Billy Miles and Knowle Rohrer. Confronted by the Smoking Man (probably a supersoldier with his face) declaring the end has come, it could not have ended any other way. A light in the sky is descending upon them. The CSM says it is the first to herald the rest and Mulder will accept his place now as nothing and Scully can watch as the human race dies.

The light descends to ground level behind some trees and then someone emerges from the woods. 

It is Bill Nighy in a business suit.

Mulder, Scully, the supersoldiers and the CSM gape. 

"Errrm. Hello, all," says Bill. "So sorry to disappoint, I know you expected a bigger to-do, but it's just me. Yes, yes. Ah, if the ground staff would disperse, there's no need for any of this, thanks." 

The CSM looks on in dismay as the supersoldiers walk off without a word.

"And Agents Mulder and Scully," says Bill. "Thank you for your diligence and care in assembling these records, these summaries, these 'X-Files.'" Bill holds up a thick file folder. "I apologize that... well, Purity is a very busy operation, we don't get around to reading every transmission beamed into space, but this has certainly been in the queue, yes."

Scully looks at Mulder and Mulder awkwardly explains that, for posterity, he transmits the X-Files digital records into space.

"Yes, good work, both of you. Very detailed, very thorough, and upon reviewing everything you've documented, we've decided, well, this Colonization business -- it's just not our business after all."

"What!?" the CSM sputters. "You can't call it off!"

"Look here!" Bill snaps. "We didn't resurrect you as a supersoldier just to take your guff! And let me tell you: this entire planet seems to us to be a veritable bill of goods! We're a biotechnology focused species. We do genetic colonization on a cellular level and we operate on procedures and protocols that adapt to meet biological challenges. We do not engage with the brand of peculiarity we're seeing on your planet in these casefiles. What even is a Tooms or a Flukeman? What is El Chubacabra and why would we colonize that? What is this Cops TV show? The demon Azazel? What would Ronnie Strickland do to our biology? We're scientists and engineers! We don't play around with super intelligent water or Bermuda Triangles or the anthropomorphic representation of death or anything involving this absurdity you call 'God.' We don't even have a coherent sense of how your species resurrects across eight separate cases and two of those are ours! Thanks but no thanks. This soul eater of yours? You can keep it. No, so sorry. This was all a mistake. We'll find another planet that doesn't operate on bizarre metaphorical 'rules' that seem to shift or be replaced with each casefile, all of which defy any system of information management. We apologize for the quality of this translation. We had difficulty finding the appropriate avatar for a message of this nature. We've also sent this same message to the other world manipulating conspiracy group, the Millennium people, we get you two confused. Agent Mulder, fondest regards for warning us off. Be well."

Bill walks into the woods. A light flies out of the trees and into the sky and is gone.

We cut back to the present. The killer doesn't believe Mulder and triggers the countdown on his bomb vest; Mulder successfully overpowers him and pulls him away from the hostages and locks the killer in a steel vault filled with Syndicate artifacts. Mulder dives out of the vault and lets the door shut as the explosion consumes the killer and all that is left of Colonization on Earth, sparing Mulder and the hostages.

Mulder and Scully prepare to leave the FBI and return to their post-X-Files lives only to discover that in the 14 years since they left, there've been a sizable number of new cases with potential monsters of the week.

They realize that even without aliens, the X-Files still remain with many cases left to investigate...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment … r-AA28iAYv

That's hilarious.

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Regarding the I WANT TO BELIEVE director's cut: I've read the shooting script. You can read the shooting script.
https://lvei.net/wp-content/uploads/scr … Script.pdf

I do not see how what they wrote is not what they shot, edited and released. I do not see a completely different movie that failed to make it to screen. I'm sure Carter's re-edit can change pacing, lighting, sound, different takes, etc., but I am truly at a loss as to how the overall film would be any different from what he and Spotnitz wrote which is what they shot.

The problems of the film are in the script, not the direction, which produced a nicely shot, atmospheric and visually compelling movie.  The story was just vacant and dull. The reunion of Mulder and Scully has them apart a lot; nothing significant happens like, I don't know, reopening the X-Files. The movie is resolved by Mulder's investigation nowhere and then running into one of the villains by happenstance. I don't see how re-editing can help any of it.

I'll watch it anyway, of course. And if I'm Wrong, I'll apologize.

I have no doubl it could be more horror oriented with edits (which is what he claimed in the podcast interview he was prevented from being able to do the first time around).  Tone isn't the hardest thing to adjust even if words stay the same.  I always liked the movies but as a "casual-hardcore" X-Files fan who was into the characters and didnt pay close attention to the mythology / cannon, I am easier to please.

**

Regarding the I WANT TO BELIEVE director's cut: I've read the shooting script. You can read the shooting script.
https://lvei.net/wp-content/uploads/scr … Script.pdf

I do not see how what they wrote is not what they shot, edited and released. I do not see a completely different movie that failed to make it to screen. I'm sure Carter's re-edit can change pacing, lighting, sound, different takes, etc., but I am truly at a loss as to how the overall film would be any different from what he and Spotnitz wrote which is what they shot.

The problems of the film are in the script, not the direction, which produced a nicely shot, atmospheric and visually compelling movie.  The story was just vacant and dull. The reunion of Mulder and Scully has them apart a lot; nothing significant happens like, I don't know, reopening the X-Files. The movie is resolved by Mulder's investigation nowhere and then running into one of the villains by happenstance. I don't see how re-editing can help any of it.

I'll watch it anyway, of course. And if I'm Wrong, I'll apologize.

X Files revival pilot theatrical rumor

I talked to Kimon of EatTheCorn.com and Kimon says he's of the impression that the revival is indeed in the same continuity as the original. I mean, he ought to know.

Yea, I don't think Ryan Coogler would destory a universe he loved but like Rocky/Creed, continue it.  Not many people have the pull he does in hollywood to do a contiuation and get it greenlit but he's so respected.

It was just announced that X Files: I Want to Believe (2008) is having its newly edited, more horror-oriented director's cut come to hulu in August.  Chris talked about this in one of the podcast interviews.