re: “X-Files” reboot casting thread (Mulder update on page 6)

Mulder…

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Can we make the assumption now that this will go two seasons, be low on ratings and get canceled?

Why can't anyone in entertainment make anything besides reboots anymore? Let's take something that we love, nostalgically, make the characters completely different races and ruin it.

Some stuff is a product of its time and should have stayed that way.

I don’t see how this is going to work out well for anyone involved.

There are all sorts of issues going on and we (as in society) haven't worked through it yet. Remakes/reboots of established IP are somewhat important b/c of how pervasive certain trendsetters were in the culture and how we view certain concepts. We have too much information these days and everything becomes a ripoff, which is less respected than remakes/reboots.

So any show about government coverups of paranormal will be compared to the X-files.

Any show now dealing with possible clandestine, occult organizations who may be pervasive in society will be compared to True Detective.

Mob shows? Sopranos.

Serious police procedurals? The Wire

But the problem is that some of these shows had impact in their contemporary zeitgeist due to being the product of their times, and this won't translate as well. This is why you have show runners trying to use the IPs (To avoid being called uncreative ripoffs) while trying to add contemporary edge and creativity (which causes friction for not honoring the IP that doesn't translate well to today).

It's just a bad cycle that very few things have dealt with well, and most of those are just making parodies of the original IP (like the 21/22 Jump Street movies) or making better versions of prior failed reboots of the IP (like the most recent Robocop movies), which get compared to the failures more than the original IP.

What should be more targeted is using the world building of these IPs to tell separate stories. Star Wars has been the biggest failure in this regard.

Then why piggy back on the X-files name, make you own show and call it what you want.

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Then why piggy back on the X-files name, make you own show and call it what you want.

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Because then you can play off nostalgia, hype and "new directions" all at once!

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I mean. . .that's one way to put it.

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Twisting it from being straight X-Files to being something more like Men In Black, The SCP Foundation, Warehouse 13, etc, is fine because part of the conspiracy is covering up shite the public is not meant to know in all of these.

If they try to make it about the government conspiracy by The Man to keep X Y Z groups down, I see it going over like a lead balloon. And having an ethnic creator and leads immediately lends itself to the perception that this is exactly what they are going to do.

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If they try to make it about the government conspiracy by The Man to keep X Y Z groups down

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Zero chance it won't be exactly this

Will follow standard patterns:

1) You are racist for thinking it will be this

2) You are exaggerating how much of this it is, because you are racist

3) It is good that it is this, and you are racist for not liking it

4) The original was also this, but you are too stupid to know it. . .and somehow also racist


Seeing some of this already developing in this thread

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Because everyone complaining about the show is citing the race of the developer and races of the actors as the problems?

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Race is central to what Coogler does. Race is also central to this reboot, or re-imagining, or whatever you want to call it. When you take the X-Files and replace the white male lead with an Indian man, and replace the white female lead with a black woman, that's what is going to be discussed. You can't pretend there's no reason for the topic of race to come up.