The X-Files Fan Retrospective documentary will be screened in the presence of Chris Carter, the documentary film-makers Lauren Krattiger and Carly Reichert Blake, and fan (and actor as Tad O’Malley) Joel McHale — in New York City, on May 3!
Between the strikes in 2023 and the Disney/Fox merger, there have been no official events to celebrate the show’s 30th anniversary: fan initiatives are as close as it gets. The documentary has some 100 cast and crew interviews, the long form of which was graciously put on YouTube from the start, and we have been covering some of the most interesting ones here.
[French] Podcast suite et fin de la saison 8 de The X-Files, à suivre avec intérêt. Alors, je suis loin d’être un grand défenseur de la saison 8, beaucoup des défauts que je lui trouve sont mentionnés ici (notamment le sabotage de la mythologie qu’est DeadAlive). Mais, mais, même moi je trouve certaines remarques bien trop sévères envers cette saison ! Il y a là un effort sincère des producteurs et acteurs de proposer quelque chose de frais et intéressant. Ça fait plus de 20 ans déjà que dure ce débat.
RIP M. Emmet Walsh. We know him of course as (another) Arthur Dales in “The Unnatural” of The X-Files, a last-minute replacement for Darren McGavin — but you might also remember him from Blade Runner. Or even Serpico, or Warren Beatty’s Reds, or more.
Nice interview by Fandom X Archive podcast with plenty of little behind the scenes stories with Chris Waddell, part of the make-up and practical effects team on The X-Files seasons 3-5 (also one of the grey “aliens” in Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’), as well as on Millennium. As part of Toby Lindala’s team, he is not even credited in the end credits — I wonder how many others “unseen hands” worked on the show(s) but are not properly credited…
Images from Corey Kaplan’s website, The X-Files production designer for seasons 6-9 — see earlier post for a recent interview with her. Sketches and photos from various episodes, notably: “The Beginning”, “Triangle”, “Dreamland II”, “How the Ghosts Stole Christmas”, “The Unnatural”, “Field Trip”, “Biogenesis”, “Amor Fati”, “First Person Shooter”, “Without”, “Medusa”, “Vienen”, “4D”, “John Doe”, “Hellbound”, “Providence”, “Audrey Pauley” (?), “Improbable”, “Sunshine Days”, “The Truth”
This is rare! Long interview with Kristen “Ace of Diamonds Shane” Cloke and Glen “Semper Fi!” Morgan exculsively on “Space: Above and Beyond“, the single-season sci-fi series which was made in-between The X-Files seasons 2 & 4 (hence Morgan & Wong’s absence), has many Ten Thirteen people in the crew (importantly, director Thomas J Wright), is where Kristen & Glen met, and which is not talked about enough. Following “Space”, Morgan & Wong had many actors appear in TXF (Home, The Field Where I Died, Musings of a CSM, Never Again) and Millennium (Dead Letters, Goodbye Charlie, and of course Lara Means throughout s2). By Yum Yum Podcast
