[FRENCH] Podcast sur The X-Files 2e film qui ne s’appelle pas “Régénérations”. Incroyable mais vrai : à divers moments du podcast je me suis retrouvé à vouloir en dire des bonnes choses. Mais rassurez-vous, il s’agit surtout de choses qui relèverait le film à un projet défectueux avec certains points intéressants au lieu d’une catastrophe sur tous les fronts. J’aime réélement la musique de Mark Snow pour ce film, il y a une certaine ambiance, il y a certains plans, il y a une volonté de propos — et voilà. Sans grève de scénaristes on aurait peut-être eu droit à un scénario qui aurait passé le stade du premier draft. Dans un monde alternatif on aurait eu un film qui aurait lancé une franchise cinématographique quand même.
RIP Tony Todd, an excellent actor that made memorable anything he was in, known in #TheXFiles as Augustus “Preacher” Cole in “Sleepless”. But surely you have seen him in loads of other things: Candyman, Platoon, Final Destination, Babylon 5, Star Trek TNG (Worf’s brother), Star Trek DS9 (The Visitor!)…
It’s Halloween! Another #Millennium-related update, this time on the series’ *other* #Halloween-themed episode: “The Curse of Frank Black”. Millennium is available only on DVD, and it’s getting difficult to find them for new fans (if new fans have a DVD player to begin with). Now, a fan is upscaling it into HD. Is this legal? Well, considering how difficult it is to find MM legally these days…let’s say this is a one-off. Disney/Fox should rescue this show from oblivion.
In the link below you will find a link to download “Curse” in HD — it’s just A Click To Save the file… Warning: it’s a 2.5 Gb file! Here are some HD/SD comparisons. It’s not the best upscale quality work but it is still an improvement. The photography of that show was sumptuous and the DVDs rendered that quite well already.
HARSH REALM in HD! Chris Carter’s short-lived show (aired during season 7 of #TheXFiles) is only available in a standard definition DVD, and that is unlikely to change. However, ironically, thanks to AI algorithms, a fan remastered it entirely in HD (upscale, colour balances, cleaning). The result is impressive. Treat yourself to some of the best things Ten Thirteen did — in particular the first three episodes are like an extended pilot. 25 years later, #HarshRealm proves to be very prescient and I think it would become a huge success would it be made today.
It’s #Tenthirteen! Chris Carter is 68 years old (and Fox Mulder 63). Time to celebrate: here is the script for the unproduced #TheXFiles seventh episode of season 10! Kindly uploaded for everyone to see by the fans who acquired it from an auction for charity. The cover page is missing, so the episode remains untitled. Apparently the episode was ready to be shot, and it was not budget but only a scheduling issue (main cast availability?) that prevented it from being made. It was written by Gabe Rotter (Carter’s assistant during season 9 and IWTB, who would eventually write “Kitten” in season 11) and Brad Follmer (Carter’s assistant over s7-9).
Some impressions (very mildly spoilery) when reading this: This is a monster-of-the-week episode focusing on killer ants. Impossible not to think of several previous episodes: War of the Coprophages (for the panic settling in among the local population), Zero Sum (for “foreign” bugs introduced in the USA being the killers, and for a scene with bugs attacking children) or Schizogeny and the episode Millennium (for weird things taking place in basements in the climax). Perhaps unexpectedly, the overall tone is lighthearted and with many references to popular culture (especially The Walking Dead and fears of the zombie apocalypse) and some Mulder-Scully flirting. At other times it’s like a very straightforward action movie. It is weirdly structured, with short acts in the beginning and the final act lasting for half the script; and the whole episode takes place over one day or two; this gives it the feeling that there’s less story here than would warrant an entire hour-long episode. And it ends, in classic TXF fashion, with a promise that not everything is over.
I found the script not particularly strong — could this be the reason why it was not picked up again when season 11 was greenlit? It’s an entertaining, if not memorable, read.
(Image from the “Season X” behind the scenes documentary)
