“No government agency has jurisdiction over the truth” -Mulder, Fallen Angel
Jan 30, 2021 11:35
For no particular reason, this garage rock song is called José Chung’s “From Outer Space”! Love-torn teenagers? #TheXFiles
The band is Radiator Hospital, here’s their bandcamp: https://radiatorhospital.bandcamp.com/album/can-you-feel-my-heart-beating
R.I.P. Harry Bring! This is a big loss. He was a producer for the Los Angeles seasons of #TheXFiles (seasons 6-9). When he was not fully a producer, he was production manager and assistant director. He also played a mortician in GA’s episode “all things”!
One of the best and complete interviews with Frank Spotnitz out there! Lots of behind the scenes I never heard before, and details on specific episodes and ideas behind the mythology and stand-alones. Don’t miss it!
All-new conversation with Chris Carter, with @[1618472925051059:69:The X-Files Preservation Collection]!
Mar 30, 2021 13:12
#TheXFiles tribute in this @[1440590182869450:274:Japanese Breakfast] music video! Season 1 callbacks!
Mar 31, 2021 12:14
#TheXFiles crew interviews by @[1618472925051059:69:The X-Files Preservation Collection] continue, it’s great to hear from the little-known players that contributed to our favourite show! Here’s Mark Kudra, set dresser in seasons 6-8.
The history of the Cigarette-Smoking Man’s favourite brand, Morleys – a prop with a long history!
Oct 13, 2020 9:09
Happy Ten Thirteen Day, happy birthday Chris Carter! In an all-new interview for @[195561691234370:274:Sammensværgelsen – en dansk X-Files podcast], Carter discusses #TheXFiles at length! He even touches upon the future of the franchise, which right now cannot be the Mulder & Scully format due to Anderson’s departure; the future as of now is the comedic animated series (his own involvement is to be determined), which was put in quick development due to Covid-19.
Flashback to right before #TheXFiles revival – everybody is eagerly awaiting the return. Power-rock band @[113750902278:274:Sunspot] releases “Don’t Mess This Up”, with some hilarious lyrics like “They’re using my nostalgia and they’re trying to make money on my youth” or “I’m looking at you, Chris Carter”! Ah, those innocent years…
Recorded off a cassette tape! Dean Haglund (Langly) narrates an early #TheXFiles convention, with interviews of Chris Carter, Gillian Anderson and Haglund! It’s 1996 and War of the Coprophages just aired. William Gibson was writing an episode and Carter had talked with Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison about the show. A movie is in preparation. Carter talks for the first time about his next series, tentatively titled Millennium!
* Warning: contains a gross sexist joke by CC, that was just the norm in the 1990s *
Flashback to the year 2000! “Well, just remember, boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn’t mean you win.” – Mulder, #TheXFiles 8X18: Three Words, commenting on the win of G.W.Bush vs Al Gore despite Gore winning the popular vote. Thankfully history didn’t repeat itself.
While doing press for #TheCrown, #GillianAnderson is also replying to #TheXFiles questions. Here it is revealed for the first time as far as I can remember what other actors were being considered for the role of Scully: can you imagine Jill Hennessy (Crossing Jordan, Law & Order) or Cynthia Nixon (Sex & the City) for the role?!…
Soundtrack alert! There is a *high probability* that @[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow]’s #TheXFiles Volume 4 will be out for Black Friday this year! But it’s not a certainty yet – @[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records] might be releasing a different 4 CD set altogether. Stay tuned…
Nov 23, 2020 16:55
#TheXFiles revival mentions in the #Animaniacs revival!
The famous Arecibo radio telescope observatory will be shutting down. I didn’t want to believe it at first… The observatory was, of course, visited by Mulder in the very first #TheXFiles episode I saw 2X01: Little Green Men – and in Carl Sagan’s Contact!
YES! The 4th and final (?) volume of #TheXFiles soundtrack by @[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow] by La-La Land Records – some 9 years after Volume 1 was released! 4 CDs of lyrical mood and spookiness! To be available for purchase from Dec. 1.
Ice! Darkness Falls! Duane Barry/Ascension! Apocrypha! Never Again! Memento Mori! En Ami! And more music from already released episodes, like Deep Throat, Anasazi, Talitha Cumi!
#TheXFiles Volume 4 soundtrack can now be purchased, and audio samples are up. LAMP from Talitha Cumi!!! Base Camp from Firewalker! Scully’s Tattoo from Never Again! And more to discover…
Happy Winter Solstice, the true Earthly event of significance of the holiday season!
Here is “The Voyagers” – a beautiful video essay by Penny Lane (@[547043178665729:274:NUTS The Film]) about space exploration, the Voyagers’ Golden Record, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, and the chance of contact and of love in he face of eternity. Plenty of “Little Green Men” and Mulder-Scully #MSR vibes #TheXFiles
Dec 31, 2020 17:56
Happy 2021, with more hope than 2020 for a fairer and spookier world! Official Archives and more Mark Snow related content coming on the website early next year, stay tuned!
Interesting link: a review of the 1998 #TheXFiles game that even includes a mention of “eat the corn”, the graffiti and the website! For me, it was nothing more than a play on words with corn being so important in the movie and the mythology…
#TheXFiles revival: “This is the darkest timeline?” A “fanon” attempt to put coherence in the mythology by connecting the revival to 4D and the IDW comics (Esp + Eng subs). Whatever puts more credence to the canon status of the Joe Harris comics vs the revival’s mismanaged twists is good for me!
Jul 13, 2020 20:22
More from the archives, coming September 15. Arcadia!
Lyrics to #TheXFiles theme, the whole thing organized by Frank Spotnitz! Better than “The X-Files is a show / With music by Mark Snow”?
Some faces here in the video I haven’t seen in a while, and many people having fun with the whole concept — were Nick Lea Rob Bowman going for a whole 1990s music video?
Aug 21, 2020 17:41
Rob Bowman did his own thing with the lyrics to #TheXFiles! This is really like a music video or something you would find as a hidden bonus in the DVD of “Fight the Future”!
Aug 25, 2020 7:57
Interview with the writer of the upcoming book, #TheXFiles “The Official Archives – Cryptids, Biological Anomalies, and Parapsychic Phenomena”, Paul Terry, out September 15 + sneak peeks into “El Mundo Gira”, “Tithonus” & “Agua Mala”! Nice to read that this involved taking photos of actual props created for the series and stored in the (mythical) FOX vaults, and includes feedback from Carter, Spotnitz and Gilligan.
#TheXFiles gets the “Star Trek: Lower Decks” treatment with an animated comedy spin off, “Albuquerque”, essentially on cases even Mulder and Scully considered unwanted! Carter-approved but he won’t be writing. I don’t know if this is the best or worst idea ever.
Clip from a previous adult animation show from “#TheXFiles: Albuquerque” project’s creators, Russo & Sosenko, and same animation studio (Fox’s Bento Box): “Brickleberry”… I’m not a fan. But weirder things have happened, quality-wise (see: Todd Phillips, The Hangover followed by Joker).
Sep 02, 2020 00:33
IDW Publishing still holds the license for #TheXFiles comics – there are plans for future comics, but no plans for when these would be published. As a reminder, sales were decreasing as IDW moved from Joe Harris’ excellent Season 10/11 in 2013-2016 to revival-set comics to one-offs, ending in 2018.
En su exposición en el marco del Salón Internacional de la Historieta del Bío Bío, Justin Eisinger, editor de IDW, explicó que la editorial no ha abandonado la idea de seguir editando los cómics de The X-Files, y que ahora la producción solo está en pausa. Las ventas no fueron las esperadas, y por eso decidieron darle un respiro a la franquicia, aunque aún conservan la licencia, y tienen planes para el futuro.
Sep 13, 2020 9:30
“The X-Files Lexicon” launches “The Lone Gunmen Chronicles”, promising deep information on the short lived series (2001)! The website is styled after the magazine that appeared in the show! I always thought the series had potential, but was better suited as a half-hour format instead of a full hour.
PSA: Of course the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved naturally on Earth! Do not spread fake news. But the wink to #TheXFiles (and @[100140296694563:274:Ancient Aliens], with that “””History””” Channel logo) was too good to pass. Environmentalist food for thought. #sixthextinction
Anxious to get @[114444205294473:274:Mark Snow]’s #TheXFiles soundtrack Volume 4? Apparently, it’s “in the very final stages in production and will be released this year, hopefully by late summer”! Fingers crossed! And if you don’t have it yet, now is a good time to get Volume 2 from @[56031953754:274:La-La Land Records], now only 100 units left before it goes out of print… Support small record companies! https://lalalandrecords.com/low-stock-alert/
May 19, 2020 15:17
#TheXFiles Preservation Collection’s website is live, showcasing the items they have (partial?): wardrobe, props and more used in the making of the series! http://xfilespreservationcollection.com/ and @[1618472925051059:69:The X-Files Preservation Collection]
Today May 21 marks the *20th anniversary* of the airing of #TheXFiles season 7 finale, “Requiem”. After all these years, given what followed, I still see this as the most apt point to call it a *series* finale, even if nothing had followed — no season 8, no movies, nothing. There is value to ending something instead of having eternal sequels and revivals and reboots, in any work of art. Would you rather have more and more of something with some good in increasingly less dense proportions, or a short compact run that shines for the ages? Fade out from overexploitation or be remembered as short and sharp?
“Requiem” was not perfect and the mythology of season 7 as a whole was lacklustre, partly due to many behind the scenes issues. But there is a poetic quality to ending things here: coming full circle at the site of the Pilot (the kind of thing you do for a finale, not a middle chapter). Mulder “discovering his Truth/God” with that abduction, Scully getting the unexpected pregnancy (which is less problematic if the show had stopped there and we didn’t play the games of season 8 and beyond), the negative counter-balancing the positive. A tragic end where the heroes are separated worthy of a theatre play or a classic novel. An ending which leaves the door open to the imagination like classic X-Files (will Mulder return? is Scully’s pregnancy a miracle?), which is more satisfying than the developments writers came up with afterwards in order to continue the story endlessly. Ending with a “bang” instead of in season 8 ending with the heroes together but with the mythology in shambles.
20 years since the 1990s ended, since The X-Files ended with no “to be continued”.
May 27, 2020 15:37
Finally saw the Breaking Bad movie #ElCamino! Memory refresher: in Vince Gilligan’s #ΤheXFiles episode “Paper Hearts”, child serial killer John Lee Roche’s car was also a 1970s El Camino; Mulder finds clues hidden in the car’s camper shell (Alice in Wonderland book and cloth hearts). The car and the camper shell are also featured in Gilligan’s movie! (and, no spoilers, but I half-expected Jesse to find what he was looking for in the camper shell)
Bonus trivia: in “Paper Hearts” the car is in Hollyville; in “El Camino” it’s at the address Holly & Arroz (Rice). Gilligan inserts many references to his girlfriend Holly Rice in his works!
Jun 03, 2020 13:53
For the @[102308879819687:274:London Screenwriters Festival], @[324099084726810:274:Frank Spotnitz] analyzes the script and episode of #TheXFiles “Memento Mori”, which was nominated for an Emmy Award for best writing!
Sneak peak into #TheXFiles: The Official Archives, coming September 15. 50 case files examined, from 1993 to 2018. It looks like a modern-looking FBI Agent discovered Mulder & Scully’s files and reads them through and takes handwritten notes. The sample pages are on the Wanshang dhole, from 6X16: Alpha! 50 cases and about 300 pages for about 150 stand alone episodes, that’s about 6 pages per case and 1/3 of the cases covered – a best of!
4 pages from the upcoming #TheXFiles : The Official Archives, coming September 15, from Nerdist.com. Featuring the Flukeman from “The Host” and the Stupendous Yappi from “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”!
Wow, we have crossed 1121 “likes”! Thank you for your trust, X-philes! Like 1013, 1121 is one of those significant reoccurring numbers in #TheXFiles, corresponding to Chris Carter’s wife Dori Pierson’s birthday. It is Samantha Mulder’s birthday too. See a list of 1013 and 1121 mentions, beginning from the very pilot, here:
Some great @[120589331375035:274:Brittania Mining Museum] photos with comparisons for where 3X02: Paper Clip was filmed #TheXFiles. Also, the diner scene with Skinner was filmed in the area opposite the mine and so was #Millennium 2×02: Beware of the Dog! #Vancouver
If Fox won’t do a #TheXFiles remake, it looks like NBC will! After “””History””” Channel’s Project Blue Book, here comes Debris:
“This new series follows two agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets. They must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft begins to have mysterious effects on humankind.”
February 23, night. Laura Palmer dies. February 24, 11.30 am. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper enters the town of Twin Peaks. Also: happy birthday Dana Scully! #TheXFiles #TwinPeaks
Feb 26, 2020 19:59
Sometimes good things come from unexpected places! “Conspiracy”, the Danish #TheXFiles podcast, has several interviews with cast and crew (in English!), notably with Bruce Harwood (Byers), Howard Gordon (s1-4 writer), Kim Newton (s3 writer), Larry Musser (guest, s2-5), and more! Check them out!
I am going to make a reference to #TheXFiles My Struggle II and it is NOT #Coronavirus-related! #Crispr-Cas9 has been used for the first time in a live, adult human! “We literally have the potential to take people who are essentially blind and make them see”
SETI@home shuts down! The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program continues, but the analysis of radio signals distributed to your PC during its idle hours will be discontinued. Who else logged CPU time for this science project? #SETI #Contact #Cosmos #LittleGreenMen #Arecibo
An interesting #thexfiles theme rendition with moody acoustics and saxophone!
Mar 14, 2020 22:39
Mark Snow’s #TheXFiles soundtrack Volume 4 from La La Land will be released “in the coming months”! For a while I thought this project would be in eternal limbo. It’s been a long wait, it will be worth it!
The United Nations begins discussions on a new global ocean treaty today – what happens will have profound consequences for the future of humanity. My piece for The Guardian. #ProtectTheOceans
Greenpeace UK
Sep-10, that’s #TheXFiles anniversary of the pilot airing. Relevant? Coincidence? Launch of Frank Spotnitz’s new website, now that the Big Light social network has been shut down? Or something more?…
#TheXFiles turns 26 today, as the pilot aired this day in 1993!
Here is the oldest entry in our TenThirteen interviews database, dating from…August 1993, before the pilot had even aired and when Fox had not even made a full season order. Young 37-year-old Chris Carter said:
“There is no gunfire in the first six episodes,” he said. “I’m really concerned about violence in our society. There’s too much violence on television. Producers should be responsible, to a point, while telling an exciting story. Like ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ we’ll show the results of violence, not the act.”
Fond memories of ABC’s “The Night Stalker,” a 1974-75 series with Darren McGavin as a reporter tracking vampires and werewolves, gave Carter a “leaping-off point” when he started developing “The X-Files” last year. “That was a good, scary show,” he said. “And it aired on Friday nights, too.”
But “The Night Stalker” vanished after one season. Fox has ordered 13 episodes of “The X-Files.” In its most-unwanted time slot, it could be an ex-series by December.
“I’d rather air right after ‘The Simpsons,’ ” Carter said. “But I know Fox would never put me there.”
Sep 13, 2019 22:04
From #TheXFiles props master and writer of “Trevor” Ken Hawryliw!
Said during an X-Files production meeting, when the topic of technical accuracy of the minutiae of a specific Amazon tribe came up:
“We don’t make doctor shows for doctors, and we don’t make Tucanuan shows for Tucanuans.” Robert W. Goodwin
Sep 19, 2019 16:11
The new #TheXFiles videogame hinted at by Chris Carter last year is upon us! It is developed by @[784484218558997:274:Storyscape] in collaboration with FOX, and consists of an interactive narrative/dialogue together with animation, for Android. The look of it reminds me a lot of last year’s “Deep State” Android game, but with more storytelling and less click-for-points. You play characters who come across Mulder and Scully and Skinner (and Doggett?) — this looks like a “next generation” story where new FBI agents are trained by the older.
–> For now, only people in Canada and New Zealand can play the first 3 parts, “Trial by Ice”, but as with any game on the internet there’s already a gameplay video out there to get a taste:
The Mentor and the Mentee – “Mentor Series” portraits of writers #ChrisCarter and #VinceGilligan by Scott Council for Emmy Magazine #TheXFiles #BreakingBad #BetterCallSaul #ElCamino
Remember remember the 27th of November! #TheXFiles #themagician #stratego #watergate #impeachment #1973
Dec 16, 2019 20:16
“Q-Case”, a #queer #thexfiles parody short film! Canada, 2008. “Evidence leads Agent Mueller and Dina Pendrell to investigate the presence of Extra Queerestrials”…
As 2019 draws to a close and post-revival excitement dies down, the biggest development on #TheXFiles front by far is the growing concern for preservation – in the form of The X-Files Preservation Collection
With promise of big things to come in 2020!
Happy new year!
From Jim and Kelly’s welcome post to their preservation group:
” The X-Files Preservation Collection is now the home to many iconic pieces from the series and movies. We have thousands of screen used items and we are constantly searching for items to add. Once an item is here it remains here and we do all we can to preserve it.
The purpose of the collection is to Preserve the history of the series and to share it with other fans and create new fans. We are currently in the process of registering the collection as a Not for Profit LLC and will be opening a museum in 2020. We cannot wait to share our Preservation Collection with all of you. We have many plans and ideas to make it more of an experience than your usual museum. “
