[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.
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.
[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 !
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).
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.
