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.