X-Files 2 publicity photos released

First publicity photos released from the new X-Files sequel coming out in July. Everything's hush-hush, naturally, but they've gone back to their roots, favoring the "monster of the week" format that made them successful versus the long running X-Files mythology of aliens colonizing the planet in preparation for a hostile take over. They've also gone back to Vancouver to film the sequel, which is where all of the early X-Files were filmed. That's cool, because there's only so much you can do in the desert outside of LA, as the last couple of seasons of the show demonstrated.

Apparently no one ages in Hollywood either. It's been six years since the final episode of the television series and the intrepid paranormal agents look like they've been frozen in alien carbonite and thawed out just to film the sequel. It must be all that hybridation going on.

The film is still untitled, but a production crew is working in Vancouver under the codename "Done One". There's no official statement that Done One is X-Files, but it's not that hard to figure out. Us X-Files fans are trained to look for clues. The director listed on the Done One roster is a Rich Tracers, a clever anagram for Chris Carter.

Done One. That doesn't sound very enthusiastic, does it? Oh well, the real enthusiasm lies in the die-hard X-Philes like myself – who've been waiting six friggin' years for a sequel! All I can say is that it's about time, and I hope everyone stays onboard so that ten years from now, when they're filming X-Files: Infinity, the production will be called "Done Twelve".