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Lone Gunmen: The Movie

posted 18 years ago by philsternwise
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This script scenario was secretly copied from a certain unnamed studio:

Movie Prologue:

Opening Narration: (Jimmy Bond/Tom Sneddon)

"Do you ever wonder about like how you got to where you are today? And how if you hadn't taken a certain road, or turned a certain corner, you never would have gotten there? Like if you hadn't dropped that penny, you might have been decapitated by that falling window pane? [reference to an X-Files episode] But...also, do you ever wish things were different? Sometimes what seems to be a failure isnt' always a failure, its just meant to be...Now, Agent Mulder would have talked about other dimensions and parallel universes, or something...and even Agent Scully in her term-paper at Quantico suggested that there may be possible other realities, only that if there were they'd probably never existed because one would push the other out of the way...but I'm getting ahead of myself...whew...so when you look back...and you see how things could have been, how they could have turned out, do you ever wonder sometimes if maybe...and I don't know which...life could have been better...or worse...?"

During this narration the following montage begins to apear, fading in and out...of what appears to be flashbacks of the Lone Gunmen...

...Kenneth Soona/Thinker goes into a store to buy a bag of Doritos...but doesn't come out...the man waiting ouside gets suspicious, a car rolls up with two men in it in the allley, the man looks over, shrugs and goes into the store, the store is empty....[reference to Anasazi]

...Kimmy walks out to the corner as a bus approaches and just as he's about to walk in front of it, Morris Fletcher stops him and says "Hey did you have a light?"...the bus passes and Kimmy survives...[reference to Three of a Kind]

...Frohike and Langly wearing his baseball hat, show up at Mulder's hospital bed, "Where's Byers?" "He's got the flu..." Skinner comes in...Mulder changes clothes with Langly...walks out with Ramones shirt on....[Reference to Fight the Future]

...Frohike is lowered into ECon-Com's computer room, and grabs the Octium chip...and Byers meets him at the top...they get the chip and run...[reference to Pilot Episode]

Background music intensifies...

...a man enters Byer's Dad's house...he notices the floor is wet...he doesn't slip...he shoots Byers' Dad...and kills him.

...The lone Gunmen attend the funeral of Byer's Dad...rocketing ashes and all...camera overhead crane of Byers...

...Music intensifies...

...Real footage from 9-11...two planes crash into the World Trade Center...

The Lone Gunmen watch the disaster on TV...Frohike lights up a Morley...

...Yves Adele Harlow approaches a man in a hotel suite with what looks like a pistol...the Lone Gunmen hit the wrong button on the elevator...after Yves Kills the man she discovers that he's the wrong guy...we next see Yves enter the Hotel conference room where the real killer is and she injects him with something and removes him...[reference to Jump the Shark]

Lone Gunmen Headline reads: "Conspiracy to Spread Deadly Virus Stopped by Mystery Woman"

[–] dragons_flame_6 18 years ago

Are you for real?

[–] RebeccaOTool 18 years ago

Oh, I wish...

May 25th 2007, Captain Jack will be back...Again.

[–] lizard_king837 18 years ago

Whem was this supposed to be shown?

If we clone people soon they'll want to be called "Replicated Americans"

[–] nonicknames 18 years ago

The problem is this - the Lone Gunmen characters died in an X-Files episode after their own series was cancelled.

[–] scream44 18 years ago

That was the point of the reference to the episode Jump the Shark. If they had accidently got the wrong floor they would have lived.

[–] Sarah_kk 18 years ago

Oh how wish this could be true! I really really hate that the Gunmen died. :(
It was a great way to go but still...

"I changed it to trust everyone - I didn't tell you?" - Fox Mulder
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[–] DropLogic5000 18 years ago

You all forget though, this is after all the X-Files world. Things aren't always how they appear. They could easily bring The Lone Gunmen back somehow. Or this could be some sort of preguel.

[–] katfairy 18 years ago

In my own little world, the last season of X-Files never happened. Actually, that's true of a depressing number of shows.

[–] glossamir 18 years ago

Aaaahhh! That would be great if they resurrected the characters for a movie, but I wasn't aware there was a ground swell of support for this show fter 6 years. Fox cancels shows without giving them much of a chance A LOT, mostly and probably because of the bottom line. Remember, they're # 4. We've seen shows like Firefly and Family Guy get a second life, after being pronounced d.o.a., so maybe it's not too far out of an idea that a script was written to bring Langley, Byers, and Frohike back before the cameras.

If this is a serious attempt, more power to them. I can't see how they're going to explain a 7 year gap from the last time we saw them, and I'm sure their VW microbus has thrown a rod by now.

Haglund seems to be comfortable in fostering his former tv persona. I wonder if the other players would return as well? Anyone know how much support there is for this show beyond the core group of supportive fans?

I just hope that this script isn't someone blowing smoke.

[–] DropLogic5000 18 years ago

But Firefly was never given a second chance. It was bought by a studio so they could make a movie of it. And Family Guy was only brought back because of the good ratings the reruns on Adult Swim.

I think if this is ever going to happen, the only person that can get it going is Chris Carter. If they made a movie I wouldn't expect it to get a theater release.

[–] glossamir 18 years ago

True, Firefly came back as "Serenity"(a movie), but Family Guy was given a second chance after seeing how well it did in syndication and in DVD sales. The point was that THEY DID RETURN. This makes anything possible, but 6 years is an awfully big gap in the production of any series.

I think it wouldn't matter to fans if it came back as a theatre release, made-for-tv movie, or went direct to DVD, just so long as we could see new adventures and episodes. It probably won't happen though -- Damn!

[–] kimberdenise 18 years ago

Hi,
I like the idea of a Lone Gunmen movie, but some of what you wrote is incorrect.

First, it was Jimmy Belmont, not Kimmy, who got killed in "Three of a Kind".
Also, if Mulder walked out of the hospital, dressed like Langly, he wouldn't have been able to pull it off so well as opposed to being dressed like Byers.

And, the scene where you have Yves inject the plague-carrying terrorist, she wouldn't have been able to do that in front of all those people, including the security.

But, other then that, your ideas are very good.
Unfortunetly, it would never happen because the Gunmen were killed off :(.
And if they did decide to make one, the actors don't look the same as they did back when they were in the series, namely Dean's hair isn't long anymore.

Well, this is my opinion.

But, I think if they made a movie with just Jimmy, Yves, and Kimmy, that would probably work better.