David Duchovny looks a bit ragged but Gillian Anderson...sigh. Anyway, here's what Entertainment Weekly has to say.
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/10/mulder-scully-x-files-first-look
It’s been a roller coaster few days since filming began on the X-Files revival. Day one was mostly a pair of empty chairs, both literally and metaphorically.
But day two. Oh, day two. The cast and crew ventured out into the open to film on location in Vancouver. And now Fox’s X-Files Twitter account has released our first official look at David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson back in character as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Check them out—for the first time in seven years.
It’s an image calculated to tell us almost nothing, aside from the fact that Mulder and Scully are physically in the same place—but it’s sure to spark questions anyway. Where are they going? Why is Mulder dressed so casually? Who is Scully going to take out with a single glance this time?
In any case, it’s confirmed that this show will not let us live our lives in peace for as long as the revival is in production. Good.
While I am looking forward to seeing the new X-Files ( at some point in the distant future ) I'm more interested - in the much nearer future - of looking over some of the old X-Files - DVD rental !. Some of those stories - as you pointed out in a blog some weeks (?) back - were really well done - especially considering the first series was made on a shoe-string budget. I'm really looking forward to re-watching 'Jose Chung's From Outer Space' ( I think that's the right title ) about Season 7. Not everyones cup of tea perhaps, but it made me laugh a couple of times when I watched it years ago; enough, at least, to remember the title. Anyways. Other info; just dropped a very slim package into the mail for you; hope you like it.
ReplyDeleteBasically, I think by Series 7 and that Chung episode Carter and co. had reached the point where they realised a great deal of the UFO conspiracy stuff and crap around Ufology was just that -crap. You find all the stuff from that episode in books by people like John Keel. Men in Black, demonic UFOs, space brothers and I think the fact that Walter Andrus Jr, then head of MUFON that Carter and co kept mentioning ("there's a MUFON report of..."), told me when I asked about 5 cases of UFOs that he deemed "solid" and beyond doubt....he told me there were none he could think of. So people complain but that episode really encapsulated Ufology in one chunk. These days Ufology is mainly fantasy. Aurora 1897 UFO crash -it was a made up newspaper hoax -documented. Roswell UFO crash -never happened:one programme actually looked at the formerly classified wreckage at the US Archive (but everyone ignored that) -they even ignore that the FBO telext that started the fuss stated the "disk" had a rope hanging from it?!! There are solid cases from the early 1950s that have become money-spinning events -even local festivals based around it and the original case histories warped beyond belief. Kelly-Hopkinsville, etc., now just plain surrounded by crap. THAT is what the Chung episode of X-Files was showing. Be interesting to see HOW they treat things on the series now!
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, Charles Nelson Reilly who played Chung also played him in the series starring Lance Henrikson -MILLENIUM. That episode and his X-Files episode are widely acclaimed and seen as classics -and he is brilliant in them!
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