Showing posts with label x-files. Show all posts
Showing posts with label x-files. Show all posts

Monday, December 25, 2023

A bunch Christmas nonsense I saved up





Friday, August 12, 2022

Great script for an unmade episode of The X-Files

Full script. (A little on the history of the script, filled with spoilers, and this is a script worth not spoiling.) Via.

Monday, August 17, 2020

Evelyn Carnahan fan art; Super kick; Comparing the original to reprints

































Friday, January 26, 2018

Darin Morgan answers "How did you decide which old episodes or scenes to include?" in this week's episode of The X-Files

From an interview with EW:
Well, that was the last thing I wrote. My script was due, so at like 3 in the morning, I was going through old episodes. [Laughs] I thought it would be much easier than it turned out to be. Some of the episodes that I thought I was going to use, or certain scenes that I wanted to use that were famous for fans, the problem was those scenes, I remembered them incorrectly.

...

The last thing I wanted to ask you about was that final scene with the alien on the Segway, where you reference the Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man.” That’s where the episode goes into full farce. Walk me through how that scene came together.

The most interesting thing with that was that it was not intended to be on the little scooter. The actor [who played the alien] was in full makeup and costume when we started setting up the lighting and stuff, and that’s his own little scooter. That’s how he gets around. He was riding around on that thing, and it just looked hysterical. I grabbed the DP, Greg, and I go, “Greg, we gotta use this. It just looks too funny.” So that was sort of an unexpected special treat.
And an interview with SyFy:
David and I talked about that too, in that over the 25-year span of the show, the world has achieved peak surreal. As a writer, how do you distill that into this world?

Good question. I don't know. This may not directly answer you, but I found the hardest thing was in terms of Trump, every day he does something that you go, "I can't believe he said that. I want to address that." But a week later, no one remembers that thing.

Thursday, January 25, 2018

The sculpture garden from this week's episode of The X-Files is real



It's in Vancouver. Learned from this interview with Darin Morgan about “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat.”

Monday, January 15, 2018

Atlas Obscura on the mysterious tower featured in last week's episode of The X-Files


Friday, January 12, 2018

"The X-Files script that was too bleak to air"

DD:
The script that he and Trenz concocted, which you can read in full online, concerns the death of an FBI agent from an apparent heart attack, after a man walks into the bureau unchallenged and fires a joke-shop gun in his direction. When some nearby feds tackle the assassin to the ground, they find he has transformed into a mannequin. Enter Mulder and Scully, who follow a trail to the sinister backwoods town of Crampton, where things take a turn for the truly bizarre.

Readers of Ligotti’s fiction will find plenty that’s familiar within the screenplay, from the frequent excursions into the uncanny right down to the name ‘Crampton’, which features in one of his short stories, “The Shadow, The Darkness”. But part of the script’s success is its skilful balancing act between sly X-Files humour and the creeping cosmic dread unique to Ligotti’s fiction

Friday, April 17, 2015

Friday, November 21, 2014



An overview of gameplay from the new X-Files board game (preorder for $40 at Amazon.)