Ciao Frank!

Look at this picture, do you recognize them?

I beg you, we want XF3 in 3D!

(… Don’t give up!…)

Vincenzo

Italy

I hate to admit this but this is the first e-mail I have ever sent to you, which is odd really, I’ve been a fan for years but I guess I never took the time to write an e-mail out. I’m not much for kissing ass or anything but I will say that I’m grateful to you, CC and the entire crew for giving us 9 years + 2 movies of the best show ever. It’s been a part of my life for at least 15 years now and still holds a strong place is my heart. Even with some of the strong programming on TV today, X-Files still holds its own against them, which is impressive considering XF first came to us 17 years ago. I think that most fans will agree that next to Kim Manners (R.I.P.) you are one of the most influential persons to this show and how the show evolved, as well as Mulder and Scully’s relationship.

It’s amazing that even after X-Files being off the air for 8 years, there has been 1 movie made (which I loved BTW, screw the critics, they don’t know what the heck they are doing) and even after the poor performance of IWTB there is still a very large chance that another X-Files movie will be made. I think the reason for that is next to you and CC, the fans are what make the show more than just a show and we are what give XF3 a chance to happen. I think we can agree that the Support is out there (:D) for XF3 which was proven evident from the XF3 Army Campaign, Frankenbear, among other campaigns.

And now, to the point of this email, ever since the XF3 Campaign started, it got me interested in video editing. I made one video for the campaign and got hooked from there. I don’t have many vids, and most of them are for comedic purposes anyway but I think there is a lot of humor in XF and I like to show that. I recently finished a new video and I wanted to share it as I think you will really enjoy it.

Thanks for the good times

Jerbs

Hello Frank!

I write this to you as I just got home after 14 hours of shooting and over 2 weeks of heavy stage building of 7 different standing sets at the AFI Soundstage.

We’re just on our first day of filming a 1940s Police Drama and it so happens that me, our screenwriter and the crafty guy, who’s also a screenwriting AFI fellow, are rabid fans of The X-Files and even one of our actors, Bruno Verdoni, was part of the show in the episode “Patient X,” back in the Vancouver days.

So there in our make shift Squad room of the LAPD of 1946, we summoned some creative spirits of some AFI stars and then some other guests, to get the good vibes going… it worked… the first dailies were beautiful.

Hope you enjoy the picture, and hopefully you will be able to see our film some time soon.

Avi

P.S. Our screenwriter is having a baby, if it’s a boy, his middle name will be Fox… cause in his own words, “who would ever mess with him with a name like that???”

Just in case any of you thought we weren’t still on top of things, plans have been in the works for the next phase of the Believe in the Future campaign for the XF3 Army since early January. We aren’t yet ready to divulge specifics but rest assured we haven’t given up and neither should you! It is the ultimate goal of this campaign to convince Fox that a third X-Files feature film is not only necessary, but would be profitable. It’s what XFN’s meeting with Fox in November was all about. We are now 12 months out from the start of the Believe in the Future campaign and since giving up isn’t in our vocabulary, we are asking that it not be in yours.

Our crack team of editors and correspondents have been working diligently over the last 6 weeks in between real life cycle film projects for Ms. Quijada and graduate film school applications for the Devols and the entire XFN Team has come together to push forward towards this next phase. We’ve been asked a few times of late why our fandom should get this green light and our answer is simple. Philes do it better.

The XFN Team

XFilesNews.com

With NASA due to launch its latest space mission, I was just reminiscing on how I still totally want to be an astronaut! Who doesn’t, right? Well anyway, while browsing NASA’s website (I may have been searching “how to become an astronaut”), I came across the Mars Science Laboratory mission. The brilliant scientists at NASA will be building another rover set to launch for Mars in the fall of 2011. It will be exploring “whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life”… aka ALIENS!

Included in the rover will be a microchip with the names of thousands of people who signed up with the Send Your Name to Mars project. Naturally, I signed myself up. But I figured that just wasn’t enough. And personally, I think that Mulder would be thrilled.

Roileigh

My name is Manuel, but I’m best known as xMeNux in the X-Files world. I’m the webmaster of the Spanish fansite called Expedientes X, where we have been working to maintain fandom for two long years. First of all, thanks to all the team for bringing us The X-Files.

This is the first time I’m writing to you, and I’d like to announce to you and all of fandom that we interviewed Erica Fraga, the writer of LAX-Files, the forthcoming book that will serve as legacy for Kim Manners. You can read it here in English, and here in Spanish.

Hope all of this helps support enthusiasm for The X-Files promotes in some way XF3!

Manuel (xMeNux)

Spain

Hi Frank!

First of all, I just wanted to let you know that you’re pretty much the coolest person ever and thank you so much for what you’ve given us fans over the years. And I REALLY, REALLY hope we get an XF3! There are more Philes standing behind it than you could ever imagine! Anywho, I’m in the Air Force and we wear patches on our flight suits. I happened to spot this particular patch in my commanding officer’s office and thought you might get a kick out of it. I’m pretty sure it’s from a fighter squadron. Enjoy!

Very Respectfully,

Jerra

Colorado Springs, CO

Just rewatched the second XF film for the first time in nearly two years, and it struck me how well it works as a melancholy coda to the whole XF saga — indeed, the entire film plays as an expanded version of that final motel scene in the show’s final episode, an extended rumination on faith and doubt, the core of what the entire epic was all about, all along.

I love the movie even more now than I did then, but can also see why such a fragile tale left so many cold, when they perhaps expected a more Morgan and Wong style popcorn thriller (that description is not intended as insult, just shorthand for different and equally appealing story styles) — a fun rollercoaster ride to revive the franchise, the Wrath of Khan approach (Wrath of Tooms?).

Certainly such a take, with jolts and scares and more classic characters, would have been more popular with the general public, though not necessarily more satisfying for the more hard-core fans.

I’m curious — were the two options ever weighed to see which would suit your and the franchise needs better, or was this simply always just the story you wanted to tell?

Best,

David

Dubai

The latter, David.  This story was personal and from the heart.

Dr. Jen

Chicago

Yup.  (Only Vince is even more handsome now than he was then.)

As you know, many of us have been campaigning heavily for a third X-Files film.

I for one am looking for closure of the mythology thread, what happened to William, how closely this will follow with my knowledge of Navajo mythology and religion.

I also know that Fox executives may be playing the money card. What if we fans raised the money for a third flick? You open a Pay Pal account or some such account and tell us where to send the money and it will come. Millions of Fans= millions of dollars, and we’ll even buy tickets to see the movie too!!! As well as by it when it gets released on DVD.

So what do you say, Frank?? Let us sponsor the third film… Make it and we will come.

Fan and mother of second generation of fans,

Elizabeth

I wouldn’t put any goal out of reach of the fans — not even raising the tens of millions it would cost to make a third film — but I think the better scenario is persuading the studio that this movie would be profitable.  Don’t give up!