Pages tagged “The X-Files”

It's fashionable to lament the state of the TV theme song. Gone are the days when a show's whole premise was summed up in musical verse before every episode. Now we have Lost and it's single chord. And though I actually like Lost's simple spooky chime and have recently highlighted the 12 Best TV Theme Songs From Current Shows, there's no denying we're past the golden age of the TV show theme song. Take a look at the following list, and let me know where I'm wrong. I've included music without words, but I skipped over shows that used already popularized tunes like "The William Tell Overture" from The Lone Ranger and "Stand" from Get a Life.

40. The Rockford Files - Mike Post and Peter Carpeneter
You might not know the names of Post and Carpenter, but between them they composed theme music for a mind-boggling number of shows including CHiPs, Magnum P.I., The A-Team, Hunter, Hill Street Blues, The Greatest American Hero, Doogie Howser M.D., Quantum Leap and Remington Steele. If you're in your 30s, you can claim all you want that Prince provided the soundtrack to your childhood—but it was really Mike Post.

Release Date: July 25
Director: Chris Carter
Writers: Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
Cinematographer: Bill Roe
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly
Studio/Run Time: 20th Century Fox, 104 mins.

Considered in the landscape of current television programming, The X-Files is an intensely interesting TV saga. The series, which followed FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as they investigated paranormal occurrences around the world, made its debut in 1993. For the next nine years, viewers tuned in each week for a glimpse into the increasingly complex X-Files mythos, replete with alien abductions, government conspiracies and gruesome investigations.

I started this blog with a list of the 10 Best Sit-coms since 1980, but in light of last week's season finale of Battlestar Galactica, it's time to unleash my inner geek and look at the best sci-fi TV series of all-time:

Remember The X-Files? It was that show about aliens with the creepy-awesome theme music, where the two main characters had a crazy will-they-or-won't-they vibe that far surpassed the one that Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain had over on ABC.

X-Philes will remember the last X-Files movie that came out in 1998, four years before the television version of the show actually ended. Now, a decade later, those crazy kids known as Mulder and Scully will reunite once again in a nursing home! Aliens with walkers! Fogies from outerspace! Only kidding. It hasn't been that long.

The new movie has, of course, managed to spur rampant rumors across the Internet, the most popular involving a snapshot someone managed to smuggle from the set showing Mulder and Scully making out like teenagers. Oh yeah. It appears that creator Chris Carter might finally give fans what they've been jonesing for for 15 years.

Take a glimpse at the bootleg trailer below to get ready for the upcoming movie:

Update: The trailer (in fact, all trailers of the movie) seems to be no longer functional. Could it be the work of aliens? We'll keep you posted.

Another update: /Film just posted this potentially fake movie poster.

Related links:
IMDb.com: X-Files Sequel
XFilesFanClub.com
YouTube: X-Files 2 Teaser Trailer

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