An interview with director David Nutter – who will be given a lifetime achievement award by the Directors Guild of America soon – along with some tough and sad personal news Parkinson’s, wife passed away). Some The X-Files-related bits:
What’s the best pilot you ever made?
[…] I also loved Fox’s Millennium pilot with Chris Carter.
You directed 15 episodes of The X-Files. Which are you most proud of?
“Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose.” That was a funny episode.
What’s an episode you improved the most from what you were given on the page?
Another X-Files episode. The first one I directed, “Ice” [season one, episode eight].
“Ice” was the first one that hooked me as a viewer, it had a lot of atmosphere to it.
[Creator] Chris Carter said it was the first “real” episode of the show and that he wanted to model the rest of the series after it.
Now there’s [Game of Thrones] spin-off ideas in the works. Would you ever want to direct on those?
No. It’s like when Warners president Peter Roth wanted me to direct Fringe and I was like, “This is a copy of X-Files.” It would be difficult to do something in that world unless the same people were involved.
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