Whereabouts:
May have long left the screen, but its players still make their presence very much felt on tv and at the movies.
Californication,
(Agent Dana Scully):
Plays senior police officer Stella Gibson on The Fall, a British TV show in which she investigates a series of murders in Belfast. BBC has renewed the show for a second season, most like to be aired next year. Plus, her years as long-suffering partner to Mulder must have prepared her for her other current recurring role – that of Bedelia Du Maurier, psychotherapist to Hannibal.
creator):
(series
After X-Files: I Want To Believe divided fans in 2008, series creator Carter went on to write and direct a film entitled Fencewalker which is still listed on IMDb as being in postproduction (for three years?). It stars Katie Cassidy ( Supernatural’s Ruby), DB Sweeney (who appeared in the short-lived Carter series Harsh Realm) and Game Of Thrones hottie Natalie Dormer. While fan speculation has been intense that this could be the third X-Files film being made under tight secrecy, some film news sites say it is just a semiautobiographical coming-of-age story with no supernatural elements. Still ... where the heck is it?
Smoking Man):
(Cancer Man / The
Davis has been showing up in some really ... uneven SyFy original monster flicks like Behemoth which was about a giant creature sleeping under the Earth’s surface. And there’s Stonados which is due this month. Hint: if Sharknado was about a tornado that dropped sharks on people, you can figure out this one is about a tornado that drops ... stones (very large ones) on people. Genre respectability restored: Davis is quite cleverly cast as the older Alec Sadler on the quite good Canadian sci-fi action series Continuum. The younger Sadler is played by Erik Knudsen, who does look like someone who’ll age into William B. Davis.
(Byers, Frohike and Langley – The Lone Gunmen):
It’s almost conspiracy theory fodder the way these guys haven’t been seen all that much since. Harwood has done numerous guest shots on shows like Smallville, Supernatural and Emily Owens, MD. Braidwood keeps busy with behind-the-scenes work as second unit director and assistant director (he worked on I Want To Believe in that capacity). Haglund still does some genre work, was in the 2010 Bones episode The X In The File, and hosted the 2011 documentary The Truth Is Out There about, what else, conspiracy theories.
(FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner):
The most high-profile genre TV appearance he’s made in the last couple of years has got to be as Sam and Dean Winchester’s maternal grandfather on Supernatural Season Six; in the “mundane” world he has had a recurring role on Grey’s Anatomy and, most recently, as Harris Ryland on the Dallas revival. Pileggi was also in a really heartrending fourth-season episode of Criminal Minds in which he played a serial killer known as the Road Warrior.
The creepy Syndicate agent last seen on the show as a ghost. Lea had regular roles on series like Men In Trees, Kyle XY and V, and lately he’s released in 1998, it DID turn out to be slightly more than just another episode of the TV show, but only just. The most memorable part of the movie turned out to be the much-hyped kiss between Mulder and Scully, which turned out to be yet another anti-climax when it was interrupted by a bee sting.
As for the second movie, X-Files: I Want To Believe, at the time, I wanted to believe that it would be good. But as I wrote in my review back in 2008, the screenplay would probably have ended up in one of Mulder’s file cabinets in that basement office of his, filed away as an X-File in
(Alex Krycek):
John Doggett):
been seen on The Killing and also Continuum as “Agent Gardiner”.
(Agent
He “replaced” Mulder in Season Eight after the latter went missing. Patrick was most recently seen as Master Chief on the short-lived TV series Last Resort, as the gunslinging G-man Max Kennard in Gangster Squad and as former werewolf packmaster Jackson Herveaux on True BloodBlood.
ers/producers):
(writ-
This dynamite writing team departed The X-Files partway through to work on Space: Above And Beyond (which didn’t last very long), . They found greater success co-creating the Final Destination franchise, and their involvement lasted until the third film in the series. Morgan was also executive producer on the short-lived genre shows Bionic Woman and last year’s The River. Wong is exec producer on American Horror Story, now about to go into its third season. He also directed Dragonball Evolution, but let’s not judge; it was Jamie Chung’s big movie break after all.
(director):
He directed 15 episodes of The X-Files, including one of the very best, Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose. Nutter has been really busy, mostly with TV work ( The Pacific, Entourage, the pilot for Arrow and the upcoming Flash). Just this year, he gave us The Rains Of Castamere episode of Game Of Thrones. You know, the infamous Red Wedding episode that made fans tear their clothes, rip out their hair and wander sobbing through the streets. Winter has come ....
Monica Reyes):
(Agent
Agent Reyes, who has a professional history with Doggett, was introduced in Season Eight and became a major character in the ninth its own right.
Sure, it was worth it just to hear THAT theme song again, and at the time, it was definitely great to see Mulder and Scully back together again so long after the show ended (six years, to be exact); but there was a sense of anti-climax with this movie, and it played more like a two-hour episode of the show instead of an actual movie, and even then, it would have ranked as one of the weaker episodes.
Comics and books
If you’ve been longing for more XFilesFiles stories beyond the second movie, then the only way you can get your fix is through the new X-Files: Season 10 comic book that was recently released by IDW Publishing. Now into its third issue, the comic continues on from the events of second movie, and sees Mulder and Scully living in hiding together
short-lived but much-loved: and final season. Her most recent roles are as Dr Anne Sullivan on Pretty Little Liars and Charlotte Millwright on The Bridge.
(editor/writer/creature performer):
Story editor on the show in 1995-96 and writer of some of its best episodes (he was also the Flukeman in The Host and the janitor with the tail in Small Potatoes), Morgan has since served as consulting producer on the Night Stalker and Bionic Woman revivals, and Fringe. We really wish he would write more. His handful of X-Files episodes were some of its best: Clyde Bruckman, Jose Chung’s From Outer Space, Humbug and War Of The Coprophages.
One of the show’s longest-serving producers/executive producers, Spotnitz’s most recent producing work is the TV spy thriller series Hunted, starring Melissa George. and Strike Back, the Brit show about British Intelligence’s secretive “Section 20” unit.
(consulting producer, writer of 27 episodes, producer, executive producer):
Gilligan’s output for the series included the Emmy-nominated Memento Mori, Pusher, Soft Light and Leonard Betts. In 2008, he co-wrote the offbeat superhero flick Hancock. His latest output? Two words: Breaking Bad.
(producer/director):
Bowman probably directed the most episodes of the show (33!) and is still busy, these days with a certain writer/“consulting detective” named Castle. As of that show’s fifth season, he’s executive-produced 88 epi
sodessodes and directed 18.
The X-Files just wouldn’t be what it is today without Snow’s instantly recognisable theme. His compositions have been heard on numerous other series since, including Smallville, Ghost Whisperer, Ringers and Blue Bloods. as Mr and Mrs Blake.
Of course, this doesn’t last long, and familiar faces soon start popping up - in the first three issues alone, we see Skinner, the Cigarette Smoking Man, Agent Doggett and a bunch of acolytes out to get Scully.
This isn’t the first comic-book version of The X-Files, of course. From 1995 to 1998, Topps Comics published the first official line of comics for the show, and then in 2010, there was even a Wildstorm/IDW crossover between The X-Files and 30 Days Of Night, in which Mulder and Scully go to Alaska to investigate a series of possible vampire-related murders.
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The X-Files Collectible Card Game (1996) The X-Files Game for PC and Macintosh, and PlayStation (1998) The X-Files: Unrestricted Access, a game-styled database (2000) The X-Files: Resist Or Serve video game for PS2 (2004) The X-Files action figures by McFarlane Toys, released to coincide with Fight The Future (1998) The X-Files PALZ by Palisades, cute caricature toys including M&S, Flukeman and the Conundrum (2005)