![]() ![]() The script was written in ten days.īecause Ten Thirteen Productions was producing forty-odd episodes of television between The X-Files and it’s “spinoff” Millennium in 1996, Chris Carter didn’t have a lot of time he could devote to writing the film, but he wanted to strike when the iron was hot. And if you do, I hope you’ll enjoy rediscovering them again. However, as someone who grew up on a heavy diet of Mulder and Scully and the silly monsters and scary old men in suits that would bring them closer together, it’ll always have a special X shaped spot in my heart.īuy X-Files: Fight The Future/X-Files: I Want To Believe on Blu-ray at WalmartĪfter doing a little bit of research and reading Jody Duncan’s book The Making of The X-Files Movie (available on Amazon) front to back, I’m passing on 25 different truths I’ve learned about the production and legacy of Fight the Future that you might not yet know. True, I’m seeing it through the greasy spectacles of a longtime jaded fan who witnessed the decline that came in its aftermath, so the missed opportunities stick out for me more than anything else when I watch it. Now that I’ve rewatched Fight the Future for the purpose of writing this article, I can’t say that it’s in my list of ride or die movies anymore. I used to have the movie posters on my walls and the soundtrack CD and the trading cards and the….if there were to have been a video game tie-in of some sort for Nintendo 64, I definitely would have eaten it up. I think I’ve seen it about, oh, 142 times. The X-Files: Fight the Future used to be my favorite film. So, naturally, it had to be made into a movie. The show’s formula was simple enough, its delivery mysterious enough, and its cast strong enough to transform a once sleepy cult drama into a nerdy spiritual experience that captivated people all over the planet. Grandmas, babies, dogs, parakeets, Nilla wafers, even inanimate kitchen utensils crowded around the TV every Sunday (or Friday) to see what the the sexiest FBI agents in the world were going to point their flashlights at next. In a far away magical land we call the 1990s, The X-Files used to rule the world.
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