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Merged 'Second X-Files Movie' and 'Next Movie' threads.

Bowman Has X-Files 2 Ideas

Longtime X-Files director Rob Bowman told SCI FI Wire that he would helm a second X-Files feature film if the same crew could be assembled, but added that he has not yet been asked to sit in the director's chair. Bowman helmed the first X-Files movie, which was subtitled Fight the Future. "I only hope to be [involved] if [X-Files creator] Chris [Carter] wants me to do it," Bowman said in an interview. "If Chris calls me and says, 'We're going to put the crew back together, and we just can't see it without you,' and if the timing is right and the availability is right, then I would say yes."

After the series finale left so many questions unanswered for fans, Bowman could not guarantee that a film would answer any more. "What are the questions? What are the answers you want? I directed many of the conspiracy episodes, the mythology stories, and a lot of it was prove and disprove. So it's one step forward, two steps back, and it became a very complicated knot to untie. I think the next one will be just a stand-alone [story]." Bowman most recently directed Reign of Fire, which opens July 12.