Source: BackToFrankBlack.com
Lance Henriksen, the man who played the character “Frank Black” on the 1990s TV show Millennium, had some very interesting news to share with BackToFrankBlack.com about the possibility of a feature film based on the short-lived TV show. Read on for details!
Basically, they say that Henriksen contacted them telling them that he has been approached by independent investors interested in financing a Millennium movie. These unnamed investors will approach Ten Thirteen Productions (the production company behind Millennium and The X-Files) and 20th Century Fox to discuss the matter.
For those of you who don’t know was the TV series was about, here is a summary from Wikipedia:
The story arc is set during the years leading up to the year 2000. The plot line followed the investigations of an ex-FBI Special agent Frank Black, into serial murderers, which were often involved with both the supernatural and a sub-governmental authority known as the Millennium Group and their prophecies for an oncoming apocalypse. Many of the unsolved questions of the series were answered on The X-Files seventh season episode, “Millennium“.
As someone who knows a little bit about the show, this actually surprises me. I have only seen the first season all the way through (just started the second) as well as The X-Files “Millennium” episode, set on New Years Eve 1999, that was used to conclude the Millennium storyline since the series was cancelled prematurely after its third season. I seem to remember Henriksen saying that he was not quite happy with the way the series ended. It is unclear if it was The X-Files episode itself that he was not happy with, or that the Millennium series got canceled and played out unnaturally. Either way, I was under the impression that the plotline was concluded. So is this a feature film better designed to end the series’ plotline, giving it a new ending and negating The X-Files episode that originally concluded Millennium? Or could the story go on beyond the series and The X-Files “Millennium” episode?
The Wikipedia summary does say that The X-Files episode answered “many” of Millennium’s unsolved questions, but not all. So perhaps there is more to learn about Frank Black’s journey. As someone who enjoyed the show, I would very much like to see where they go with this if they end up actually making this movie. Perhaps they will just condense the series’ plot and remake it into one two-hour movie.
Lee Sherman said
September 17 2009
The “X-Files” episode tied up one of the biggest plot threads in the show “Millennium,” but there was a lot left unresolved. A “Millennium” movie seems like a valid idea to me.
Chuck Saunders said
October 12 2009
The “X-Files” episode didn’t tie anything up. And besides that, that particular episode of the “X-Files” was a terrible one. I felt that they (Chris Carter) did a great injustice to Millenium by attempting to get “closure” through the X-Files. That show ended with too much in the air for one side story of one episode of a TV show to do it any justice, or to really wrap anything up.
Dan Geer said
October 12 2009
Yes, but like Lee Sherman said, it tied up one plot thread while leaving everything else unresolved. I myself enjoyed the X-Files “Millennium” episode as an individual stand-alone X-Files episode, but like you said it wasn’t enough to tie up everything for the Millennium TV series.
Chris Carter was put in quite a predicament when he had a successful show on his hands, only to find it canceled at the end of its third season with many plot threads left unresolved. I guess it just wasn’t successful enough.
I can see how, at the time, the creative team behind X-Files would make this attempt to tie up at least one main plot thread of Millennium by spinning it off into The X-Files. The X-Files sort of fit in the Millennium world, and it was Carter’s only successful show. What other choice would there have been at the time? While I would go see a Millennium movie, I’m not sure they would have thought to make a movie (or even a TV movie) out of a canceled TV show. That, and they were probably so preoccupied with The X-Files, with filming Season 5 AND the first movie as well as the whole ordeal of moving to LA from Vancouver for Season 6 and beyond. All that was going on around the time Millennium was canceled.
It will be interesting to see if a movie for Millennium moves forward now. How much will it cater to mainstream audiences and how much to the fans? Will it even make a profit so long after the series was canceled? I will certainly be finishing the last two seasons of the show, and will definitely be in line for the movie if it happens.
Richard Geer said
December 14 2009
Maybe they cvan tie it in withi the Mayan end of the world stuff–oh sorry I guess that has been done already called “2012″ Pehaps they could bring a different and better take on that aspect and the idea that the year 2000 after all was a human construct even if the times and seasons might be approximately correct. Just a couple of thoughts.
julien said
January 21 2010
more and more news about the millennium movie…and if the movie will have public sicces, there are rumers about the follow up to the TV series…
Homer B Petty said
April 17 2010
The so called tie up in the crass x-files episode was an insult to
Millennium cast and crew so was Chris Carter complaining that meson
2 was hijacked and went in directions he never intended.
Well Chris , where the heck were you? Oh,you were on your pretty
baby the X-files when the network told Morgan and wing to alter
the feel of x-files. You can’t have it both ways although you tried
through that insulting x-files episode. Just make the Millennium movie dammit!!
James McLean said
April 28 2010
Lance again mentioned doing a Millennium movie at the BIFFF festival in Belgium this month where he was awarded for his role within the industry. He’s doing all he can to make that movie happen and we’ve recently heard back from Glen Morgan and James Wong who both support what we do (Glen is a charming man) – so things are looking pretty good. Interest is there from cast and crew, many in the industry are very interested in what’s going down. We’ll keep on pushing!
sts said
August 3 2010
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