Aaand we're back. Don't ask where I've been last week. If you need a reason, let's just say the Red Wings Stanley Cup run figured in very prominently. Congrats to the Wings, who won the Stanley Cup for the fourth time in 11 years tonight.

To the point, there's a brand new trailer for X-Files 2 online. It's good. You need to watch it. Here you go:

Fox promised us a new trailer for X-Files: I Want To Believe would appear online Monday the 12th at 12:01 am. Even though the clock counting down to the trailer's release went to zero and 12 midnight in every time zone, it took until midnight PST time for the trailer to finally appear.

Luckily, it is now online, and we've got it for you . Take a look:
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JJ Abrams, the guy responsible for such fine television programming as Alias and Lost, has a new science fiction series coming to television. Oddly enough, it sounds an awful lot like an old series.

Variety says his new show is Fringe, and it's been picked up by the Fox network. The show is about a young, female FBI agent working with an oddball scientist to investigate unexplained medical and scientific phenomenon.

Sound familiar? Yeah.

Former Dawson's Creek star Joshua Jackson will play the male lead in the show's 2-hour pilot, with Anna Torv starring opposite him as FBI Agent Olivia Warren. That's Anna in the picture with this story.

20th Century Fox has announced that the first trailer for the upcoming second X-Files movie will be here first thing next week. The trailer will debut at 12:01 am on Monday the 12th. Unfortunately, it'll only be available on IGN, where the big, faceless corporation which owns them has made a deal with the big, faceless corporation which owns Fox, to scratch each other's backs.

Either way, we'll have direct links to the trailer for you here on Monday, and later in the week the trailer should also become available to everyone... hopefully including places that can deliver it in higher quality formats like Apple.

A new poster for the upcoming X-Files movie has popped up online over at Bad Taste. Yeah, the poster looks kind of fake, but I have it on good authority that thing is the real deal. It's a Polish poster for the film, and apparently this sort of shoddy one sheet work is normal over there. Take a look:
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It's been a big week for X-Files news. First we finally got the movie's official tite, X-Files: I Want To Believe. Now we have the plot of the film.

The somewhat ironic thing here is that Chris Carter and the folks at Fox have gone to almost draconian means to keep the plot of this underwraps, and now it's all been for naught because it's slipped out via the description of the movie's novelization. That's gotta hurt.

Here's the plot description which has been making it's way around the net. We're not exactly sure where it originated, it seems to have at first popped up on ComingSoon.net or JoBlo.com, but now it's been removed from both sites... which by the way seems to lend even more creedence to the notion that it's the real deal. Of course, as always, take this with a grain of salt, but here's the text being circulated as plot synopsis from the back of the X-Files 2 novelization by Max Allan Collins:
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Ready for it? Here it is... The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Yep, that's what they're going with. A slogan off a poster which hung over Mulder's desk in the series. They should have just gone with "The Truth is Out There". At least we can all finally stop referring to it as the Untitled X-Files Sequel.

We still don't know what exactly X-Files 2 is about, or for that matter even what it will be called (X-Files 2 is not the title), but we can now say with some certainty that Mulder and Scully will be cold. Really cold.

It's parka weather in X-Files land, in these three new images just released by Fox for the sequel film. They leaked out online a couple of days ago, but now Fox has followed up and let us have the real deal. Take a look:

I could be finishing up my review of Timothy Zahn's latest Star Wars novel, but instead I'm doing this: Giving you loyal GFR stompers a quick recap of all the sci-fi related stories we missed in the last week or so, probably because I was too busy obsessing over the impending return of Battlestar Galactica. Can you blame me? Ron Moore's show is awesome.

Rapid fire laser blasts:

- Frank Darabont's attempt to turn Fahrenheit 451 into a movie took a hit this week. Tom Hanks, who had been attached to the project, ditched it. From his comments, Darabont seems to think this has all but killed the project.

- Battlestar Galactica producer David Eick is turning Children of Men into a TV series. It's already been an amazing movie done by Alfonso Cuaron, and now Eick is taking another shot adapting it. It's hard to imagine he'll be able to top Cuaron's film, but I'm dying to see what he comes up with.

- Transformers 2 may be stockpiling cars to begin shooting. This site scored pics of trucks loaded with Mustang police cars painted up with Decepticon logos.
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The past few days have been huge for science fiction news, and I'm not just talking about that played out superhero stuff that everyone spends all of their time covering. Is that even sci fi anymore? It's almost it's own thing. But I'm a sucker for guys in capes, so we'll cover it... just not to the exclusion of all else.

Here's a quick update on what's big in science fiction this week:

- Bryan Singer confirmed that a sequel to Superman Returns is happening, and that he's already at work on it.

- X-Files 2 finished filming this week, and the production team rumbled about their disinterested in courting existing fans, and proclaimed their love of people who don't care about their franchise. More on how much Chris Carter hates you here.
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