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EXCLUSIVE: The X-Files creator Chris Carter has signed with CAA. Carter had been a longtime client of Bob Broder, first at BWCS and most recently at ICM following the agencies’ 2006 merger. After a decade away from TV, Carter last fall teamed with MRC to shop female-driven mystery thriller spec Unique, which ultimately didn’t sell. He is attached as an executive producer to another spec, written by feature scribe Jon Bokenkamp, which is being shopped to cable networks by Sony TV. In addition to The X-Files, which ran on Fox for 9 seasons, Carter developed Harsh Realm, created Millennium and co-created the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen. Since The X-Files ended its run in 2002, Carter has stayed largely out of the spotlight, only resurfacing to do the 2008 X-Files movie sequel and the upcoming thriller Fencewalker. There has been talk recently about a potential third X-Files movie.
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Wait! I thought TV was going to save ICM?
Chris hasn’t been a meaningful client for them for a decade. More importantly, Bob Broder is the smartest person, let alone agent, in our industry. Anyone who thinks this is about Bob or icm is clueless.
So Fencewalker is coming sometime this century, then?
Great news! Can FOX greenlight XF3 already???
I’m sure he got a lot of surfing in.
How does a Chris Carter tv spec not sell?
I blame MRC — not ICM. Would be curious to hear the details on this.
Really hope there’s gonna be another xfiles movie,it was by far the best show ever
If he can no longer sell a spec, there’s one obvious thing he should do – reboot the X-Files with young actors as Mulder and Scully. I’d watch it and a whole new generation will get hooked if it’s done right.
Uh, Chris who? X-Files movies besides what else has he done in the last years?
Millennium was his gemstone; its three seasons were nothing short of excellance – Lost; Grim; Fringe … owe much to that show.
Lance Henriksen was the best actor on that show.
He should re-boot that, maybe with his-character’s daughter Jordan, handling the heavy lifting.
Great show … which Fox lost!
Hasn’t Fencewalker been sitting on the shelf for 4 years now? I really hope we get a 3rd X-Files film to bring it back to the greatness of the series and have it go out on a better note than the last film.
isn’t chris carter out of the biz?
It’s a real shame that “Unique” didn’t sell, as the TV landscape is a little poorer for not having Carter’s vision represented on it with new material. Personally I’d hate to see a reboot of “The X-Files” – I’d just like to see one last screen adventure for Duchovny & Anderson in the roles, as well as a final return for “Millennium”‘s Frank Black.
The X-Files without Gillian and David? Nooo way.
Good for them. They signed a guy who can’t even sell a spec pilot.
David Lynch, Richard Kelly, and George Martin have also written spec pilots that didn’t sell, so what’s your point?
When a X-Files guy’s fanfic is discarded unread by 1013 Productions (makers of The X-Files) back in the 1990s, he goes on to devote his life to posting crap about Chris Carter everywhere he can.
Say hello to Christopher Joseph Lyons, aka clyons, tvprod, Malibu, and too many other sockpuppet attack-handles to mention.
Nope, wasn’t me.
I read over your comment again, and I’m kind of confused–never posted as ‘tvprod’, or ‘Malibu’. I mainly post about Carter’s sad decline under my own name, which is why you know it, and yet you think I’m disguising my identity?
If you see somebody named ‘pisher’ going after Carter, that’s probably me. But honestly, you’ve gotten me confused with a bunch of other people who have likewise recognized that his career is in the toilet. And this article makes that point better than any of us, so why don’t you accuse its author of being me?
Gosh, you still did not get over that Carter negative fascination?
Incredible…
The only credible reason to do another X-Files movie, IMO, is to tie up the loose ends that still exist in conjunction with the 12-21-2012 Mayan Calendar Prophecy that the series popularized back in the 90′s as a critical destination for its storyline. The window has already closed for a big screen movie to be filmed in time to hit theaters in December — unless Carter wrote one already. But IMO, missing a theatrical movie’s development cycle is a *great* thing for the concept.
No matter how much I liked the second movie — and I liked its melancholy, mournful tone a *lot* — it seems to me (and, oh, a lot of fans) that the show’s serial nature clearly made *both* movies an uncomfortable fit with the big screen and therefore, there’s no real demand, no reason for it to be up on the big screen again. But the series itself is a perennial seller on DVD and IMO that is more than enough reason for Fox Studios to greenlight what would likely prove to be the optimal thing: a four-to-six-hour miniseries for Fox/FX (or even direct-to-Blu-Ray).
No. The main reason to do another X-files movie or any movie is to entertain those who loves the X-files, and think that there are room for one more spectacular movie! The tying up would be pointless without the entertaining factor.
But not even that is true. That is why I want another movie. The reason for making another movie is something that only Carter and his crew can answer.
The first X-files movie was an excellent fit with the big screen! The second one was a decent film on it’s own terms, but not what I wanted for a big screen movie after all these years.
The second XF was great- it was just the wrong movie at the wrong time. It was too dark and grim for the summer crowd and too political and adult for the fandorks who think the XFiles was only about aliens.
Another out of the business writer for caa. While WME and UTA continue to dominate in tv lit this is a typical caa sign. There tv writers list is horrible. They have joe Cohen and that is it. Chris was great a decade ago no one cares anymore. Also, if he had any chance to resurrect his career there is no better agent than bob broder.
I’m sorry but, the second X-Files movie was “dark and grim”, “political and adult”, you serious? The movie was a mess, and not because it was not about aliens. Mulder and Scully were supposed to be on the lam from the (idiotic) super-soldier conspiracy, and yet the movie makes it look like with minimum effort anyone could have found where Scully worked, follow her home and find Mulder. The “case” itself was poorly written, I can easily name 45-50 MOTW episodes that were better than “I Want to Believe”. The script was, at best, a first draft that needed a lot of work to make it work. I can understand the shippers liking the movie because it finally showed Mulder and Scully living together, but even that was portrayed in a stilted way. Actually, after six years of wait we got more X-Files and our favorite characters spend much of the movie apart from each other. That’s not to mention casting XZibit and Amanda Peet as FBI agents.
@ venkman: I agree with you on the whole… it was easy to find M & S, that was just a cop out there. The case and some of the dialogue needed more work and polish (but by comparison to the novelization, it was good – that thing is a pile of crap). As for M & S living together, that wasn’t stilted in the slightest. Heck that was one of the better parts of the film.
Both David and Gillian did the best with what Chris gave them. And the chemistry was still there along with the interaction. Didn’t get one iota of stilted-ness from either one. Sure there were a few things here and there that weren’t perfect… but after 6 years (at the time) away, what is?
The best example of stilted-ness from those two was during the episode, ‘Dreamlands’ — the writing was good, but the acting was not. It was an embarrassment. Felt sorry for the writers and the characters. There was no chemistry there at all, let alone a sense of connection to the characters themselves. Felt that in IWTB. I was grateful for that, along with seeing a movie that didn’t shove (as in really fast chase scenes and the like) stuff in your face.
Fake tan much?
The guy’s a year-round surfer, you’ll have to try a different way to demean him.
It’s sad if “Unique” has been given up on; I wanted to see it. The major networks just aren’t willing to take risks anymore; Michael Taylor and Ron Moore’s amazing “Virtuality” pilot wasn’t picked up by Fox. I’m so sick of Abrams’ commercial, soulless garbage polluting the airwaves and the cinemas. I just want a series of X-Files films that delve deeply into the mythology and don’t worry about casual fans, which is what marred the first film.
Yes, please do another X Files movie because that’s what the kids are screaming for and the last one did soooo well. What a dumb-ass.
I believe Elliot Webb actually represented him all those years.
I think it’s safe to say that whatever is left in The X-Files franchise is dead and buried and X-Files fans can thank Chris Carter for that.
Great! Now, get Vince Gilligan on the phone and have him pen the next X-Files movie.
I understand why Carter’s projects are not easy to sell. But this is for the same reason why they are so great. He really has his own character and the ability to challenge the viewers. I’d love to get a new film or a new show.