Today, a short video from Canada, with a surprise appearance at the end!
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May
04
2024
Carter at TXF documentary screening
I’ll just leave this here. At The X-Files documentary screening at New York City yesterday, Chris Carter had the time of his life ending the panel with a bang! He sure likes controversy.
“She [Scully] admits or tells Mulder about her pregnancy in the final episode and that became very controversial. I mean a lot of people, I mean Avi Quijada, she closed her website down [XFilesNews], her blog, and Gillian got very angry at me and it’s like I wasn’t sure why that was but I actually sort of welcomed the controversy and I thought it was a good thing. But if you follow Scully’s maternity if you will, with Emily and with William, and — why does anyone think that this pregnancy is anything other than science fiction? This is a science fiction show, that pregnancy is… It’s spelled out actually at the beginning of the episode, where ‘The Truth Is Out There’ is something else [‘Salvator Mundi’, saviour of the world, for Jesus Christ] and it is what I had in mind. So I just want to go on record to say: it’s not necessarily Mulder and Scully’s child.”
So, the story is not over, the mystery continues, and the third child of Scully is still not quite her own. I understand his punk attitude with wanting controversy, after all here we are still raging about this, but don’t know why he persists so much with this long-dead horse. Good stories end, most would have been happy with M&S just continuing their lives, still investigating or not, with child or not.
https://twitter.com/alimen_222/status/1786585883627425933
https://www.fangoria.com/the-x-files-30th-anniversary-with-chris-carter/
Apr
26
2024
Spanish book updated
[Spanish] En 2006 se publicó en España un libro enteramente dedicado a Expediente X escrito por la academica Sara Martín Alegre, “En honor a la verdad“, que leí en la época con gran interés, y que hoy está agotado. Descubro ahora que para marcar el 30o aniversario de la serie y para cubrir lo que pasó desde entonces, el año pasado se publicó una actualización, “La verdad sin fin“. Aquí está la autora presentando el libro en Barcelona, abordando cosas muy interesantes y con las cuales estoy de acuerdo — como el hecho que la serie pertenece a su época y es difícil imaginar un remake hoy, o que la serie original acercaba las conspiraciones con un punto de vista crítico del gobierno en la tradición del lado político de izquierdas mientras que el revival fue mucho más confuso y más cercano del lado de derechas.
Ver también:
- Artículo de la autora
- Presentación de la editorial (con enlaces con entrevistas adicionales)
Apr
20
2024
“The Truth and the Light” video
How many times have you listened to The X-Files: “The Truth and the Light”? I remember all the music and dialogue by heart. This fan dug up the episodes they were taken from and mixed with music from other episodes and gathered everything in a video — a video version of my page from years ago on Eat the Corn.
It’s apparent that some dialogue was taken from the episodes recordings while some other dialogue was re-recorded for the album, often by the same actors but not always (Duchovny standing in for Billy Miles). I know it’s weird but I’ll never tire of listening to this album.
Apr
07
2024
French podcast: The Lone Gunmen
[French] Autant pour The X-Files saison 8 j’avais des choses positives à dire par rapport aux intervenants de ce podcast, autant là j’ai du mal à défendre la série The Lone Gunmen. Il n’en est pas moins que Vince Gilligan, encensé partout ailleurs, est toujours aujourd’hui fier de son travail ici, et que c’est avec cette série qu’il a rencontré son futur collaborateur de Breaking Bad et co-créateur de Better Call Saul Thomas Schnauz. Tout le monde qui a travaillé sur le tournage de cette série à Vancouver semble avoir de bons souvenirs. C’est au moins ça !
https://www.facebook.com/LeCoinPopPodcast/videos/416762491052850/
Apr
04
2024
TXF reboot rumors update
A summary of recent The X-Files events:
Chris Carter and wife Dori Pierson have some TV mini-series project, completely unrelated to sci-fi/genre; whatever Carter does next, he wants it to be different from TXF. I hope he does manage to do *something*!
Carter went as far as to say that he took the decision to pull the plug on season 12 and end with season 11 (“I needed some time off”), not mentioning the falling ratings or Gillian Anderson’s dissatisfaction (this is rewriting history somewhat, but from another point of view it’s a professional executive producer taking responsibility for his product, keeping the business information only to insiders).
Inevitably, people ask Carter about the rumored TXF reboot to be handled by Ryan Coogler. Contrary to his systematic involvement for the past 30 years, Carter now seems to have distanced himself from TXF, whatever happens now will not be under his supervision. This is an important change compared to even one year ago.
Gillian Anderson has said she would be open to making an appearance on a reboot/sequel/rewhateverthisis, going as far as saying that Coogler is “a bit of a genius” — which in line with what she said she would think about continuing the role of Scully if “a whole new set of writers and the baton would need to be handed on”, making it clear that for her Carter was the issue. Incredible that this feud has become so public.
Meanwhile, Dean Haglund (Langly) appears to have insider information, that the reboot would tackle the topical issue of AI instead of the alien invasion conspiracy. Given that no other information exists out there and that thanks to the AI angle this would allow Langly specifically to have a role, take this with a grain of salt.
For over a year, the only source for the reboot’s existence has been Carter, and now hopeful actors. Zero word from Coogler or Disney or anybody else, which by now is weird — but then most projects never materialize and it’s only media obsessiveness of recent years that has resulted in us hearing of so many details. Coogler’s current plate seems to be very full, with plenty of film and TV projects officially announced left and right. Whatever happens, it doesn’t look as if it will happen any time soon (and I’m not in a hurry).
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