This is really just for me to obsess over the new X-Files film now there are little titbits of information and a few stills around.

I so hope that there's still enough interest to make this a success.

I really think it's going to be excellent. They're going to have a sort of post-90s cynicism hanging over everything. People are so used to conspiracy stuff now that I think we just take it for granted, but the focus has shifted, the things we worry about now are things like climate change, like the way that wars and disasters seem to be perpetuated by capitalism - the horrors of this century are even worse than those of the last and I reckon they'll overshadow this film, even though it sounds like the story is more localised this time. Mulder and Scully will be older, more depressed than ever, careworn. I wonder what William will look like now.

They always used to do serial killer/forensic science stories really really well, and I think they had a lot of impact on shows such as Dexter and Bones. And in some of their finest episodes (eg Home, or in a different way, Paper Hearts) I think they did have that that-much-darker edge; but they did also tend towards over-seriousness a bit, and I think they'll have learned in turn from newer sensibilities and there'll be a bit more blood, gore, grim humour.

Also Xzibit is in it, which, you know, is going to be aces.