Despite recent movie versions of Sex and the City and The X-Files, we won't be seeing a film version of Frasier anytime soon, according to its former star Kelsey Grammer.

"I hope not - it's just bound to be a failure," he says.

"I like them on television. I even like Sex and the City on television. I know it had great success. But stylistically, the way it's shot, you could kind of buy that it could be a film. It wasn't such a transition in terms of what the actual camera work was, so it was okay.

"Frasier is rooted in the camera tradition that involves an audience participating. You have to allow that to happen for sitcom for work. And I wouldn't want to see that in film. I think it would be silly and tortured with self awareness and foolishness."

However, Kelsey still keeps in touch with his former co-stars including David Hyde Pierce, who played Niles, Peri Gilpin, John Mahoney and Jane Leeves.

"Oh yes. I talk to David all the time and I talk to John as well cos I can," he says. "And I see Jane around Malibu a lot of the time too."

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that would have been very nice if there was a Frasier Movie.

Kelsey is right; it just wouldn't be the same to have a supposed sitcom turned into a feature film. It works with some films, but I think a Fraiser movie would be a huge flop!

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Maybe they will do a reunion.

Wasn't the recent X Files movie a gigantic flop?

Kelsey's right, it wouldn't work.

I'd luv a Frasier reunion, as it did work for S&TC & X Files. Even if it's on tv.

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I don't think that a "Frasier" movie would work because they could never
recapture on the big screen the intimacy of the small screen. That was
the appeal of the show; it was like letting some good friends visit your
house each week.

Wasn't the recent X Files movie a gigantic flop?

Depends on where you live.
Besides the first one (Fight The Future) from 1998 was a huge success.

Depends on where you live.
Besides the first one (Fight The Future) from 1998 was a huge success.

I liked the first X Files movie. But...

They should have released it in the fall, and not a week after The Dark Knight.

Otherwise the new movie would have made more than 20 million dollars.

At an estimated cost of 30 million dollars to make so it didn't break even here in the U.S.

While it's not a flop like Eddie Murphy's Pluto Nash, it was still a failure.


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