Giant Freakin Robot

It’s been four years since Mulder and Scully returned to the big screen with the thud of a dud that was the second film, The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Sadly, that flick was more in the vein of a forgettable monster-of-the-week episode than the epic last hooray for our favorite FBI agents. While there have been rumblings about a possible third X-Files movie at some point in the future, it’s still remained very much in the “unconfirmed rumors” column. Now Frank Spotnitz, a veteran X-Filer who co-wrote the last movie with creator Chris Carter, has sounded off on the prospect of a third film…as well as the possibility of the show getting a TV reboot.

While Spotnitz doesn’t have any concrete info about when/if a third X-Files movie could happen, he does say that he and Carter already know what the movie would be about. Thankfully for those of us who sat through I Want to Believe, the third film would venture back into the show’s wheelhouse — nasty aliens plotting bad things. Speaking to Den of Geek, Spotnitz said:

I mean I’ve known for many years what I would like the movie to be and I’ve been talking to Chris Carter about it for many years, but there is no script … It’s the climax of the alien colonization story that began the series.

When an alien race lands on Earth, the US government enlists the services of a talented linguist who must figure out how to interpret the visitor’s language in order to determine if they come in peace, or if they showed up just to ruin everyone’s day. That’s the basic premise of author Ted Chiang’s novella, Story of Your Life, soon to be adapted into a big-screen science fiction thriller.

Man, is it just me, or are the Autobots are kind of dicks? At least if you believe this short, stop-motion animated film Hasbro cooked up to help market their Kre-O line of Transformers toys. It’s too hard, too emotional—they ruin lunch! Just watch and then we’ll get together and discuss what total bastards Opitimus Prime and his gang of goons are.

Australian director John Hillcoat’s latest film, the Prohibition-era crime drama Lawless, hits Blu-ray and DVD this week. Best known for his grim western The Proposition, and the post-apocalyptic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Hillcoat wants to bring his bleak sensibilities to the realm of science fiction.