Si è tenuta poche ore fa a Vancouver, una conferenza stampa a cui hanno preso parte David Duchovny, Chris Carter e Frank Spotnitz, riguardo al nuovo film di X-Files. Pare che le riprese del film siano terminate, o almeno, che David Duchovny abbia finito di girare
Dal primo articolo apparso in rete veniamo a sapere che la città di Pemberton, dove la troupe ha girato per circa tre settimane, nel film rappresenterà una città nord orientale degli Stati Uniti, ma la cosa che adoro letteralmente è sapere che il nome sotto il quale veniva indicato il personaggio di Mulder nei famosi callsheets (i fogli di lavoro giornalieri del set), è il nome del cane di Chris Carter! Vancouver criticisms a ‘non-existent controversy,' X-files star says

VANCOUVER — David Duchovny says the controversy over remarks he made about Vancouver was a “newspaper-generated false non-existent controversy” – and that the idea for criticizing the city on Late Night with Conan O'Brien came from the talk show, not him.
Mr. Duchovny addressed the controversy – now more than a decade old – at a news conference held in Vancouver Wednesday afternoon. It was called so producers of the coming X-Files movie could “express their gratitude” to the city, where production on the film is just wrapping, and where the series was shot for five years in the 1990s – before Mr. Duchovny famously lobbied to have the production moved to Los Angeles.
“It was really a tempest in a teapot,” Mr. Duchovny, dressed in a blue sweatshirt and ripped tan jeans, told reporters.
“I love this city. I love coming back here. I always loved this city. That was the unfortunate part; [it] was kind of a misrepresentation of my feelings about the city.”
Mr. Duchovny says in fact he considers Vancouver “a home away from home” – and that he has fantasized at times about what his life would have been like had he stayed here permanently.
“I've always thought it would be a great place to raise the kids.”
In 1997, Mr. Duchovny made headlines locally after going on Mr. O'Brien's show and criticizing Vancouver's weather.
"Vancouver is a very nice place if you like 400 inches of rainfall a day,” he said.
But Wednesday, Mr. Duchovny said Mr. O'Brien's producers approached him with the idea of poking fun at Canada. They suggested that after he made his comments about Vancouver, they would cut to the audience and show a Mountie, a hockey player and a bear dabbing at their eyes with handkerchiefs.
“To me, a bear crying is funny,” he said Wednesday.

Mr. Duchovny finished shooting the X-Files film Wednesday morning and stopped by the news conference on his way to the airport to return home. Co-star Gillian Anderson, who was supposed to be there, cancelled due to illness.

Producers have been trying to keep details of the second X-Files film (title TBA) hush-hush, using a false name for the production in an attempt to fool the paparazzi (it didn't always work) and referring to Agent Fox Mulder in the script and call sheets as “Larry” – the name of a producer's dog.
Still, some minor plot points were revealed Wednesday: the film will not centre around the alien conspiracy that the series (and the first movie) were focused on and instead will be more of a stand-alone story. The characters will be six years on from when the series ended (as in reality). And Pemberton, B.C., the city north of Whistler where the film shot for three weeks, will stand in for a city in the north-eastern U.S.

When asked about photos of the shoot circulating online that show Mulder and Scully kissing, Mr. Duchovny said the writers have always described the film – and the whole series – as a love story, whether chaste or sexual. “That's half the show.”
X-Files creator Chris Carter and screenplay co-writer Frank Spotnitz said they owe a lot to Vancouver - to the crews who grew up with the show, and to the city's physical beauty.

“Vancouver gave the show its original look, which I would call moody,” said Mr. Carter, who still maintains a home here. “I think that was one of the secrets to our success - not so secret, as it turns out.”

FONTE: Globeandmail.com X-Files team including Chris Carter and David Duchovny thank Vancouver as principal photography completed

At a press conference held this afternoon at the Sutton Place Hotel for the X-Files movie currently in production, creator Chris Carter, writer Frank Spotnitz, and a sleepy-looking David Duchovny (they finished shooting at 8 a.m. this morning) assembled themselves before Vancouver media in a hotel conference room to announce the completion of their principal photography here for the upcoming X-Files movie, and to thank the city.

Chris said that this is “our home now”.
“This was the place where we succeeded," he said. "I think that if there are 10 people things to credit with the success of the X-Files, then Vancouver ranks as one of those.”

There is no title decided upon yet for the forthcoming movie.
The content of the movie is being kept secret, and it was listed as Done One Productions on film production lists when they were filming. Duchovny, looking laid back and comfortable in a blue hoodie, scruffy jeans, and runners, said his character was listed as Larry (which was named after the dog, who also attended the conference and sat quietly at the front of the room).

While they were tight lipped about many details, Carter and Spotnitz revealed Pemberton will be passed off as an Eastern American location. All three talked about how the characters will carry on as if six years time have passed, as it has in real life since their last onscreen appearances.
When asked if romance would be continue, Duchovny said it will be a part of the it as it always has been. “It’s a love story, in a sometimes chaste and sometimes really driven way. So that continues, that’s an elemental part of the X-Files…that’s half of the show.”
He added that the nature of the show allowed it to envelope diverse elements. ”One of the great things about the X-Files was its expansive tone. That it could enfold in itself comedy and horror and a love story.”

When asked about how he felt about the local anti-Duchovny backlash when the media latched on to his negative remarks about Vancouver, he said he felt mispresented and that it became a tempest in a teapot generated by the media.
He had plenty of thoughtful praise to give about Vancouver. “Vancouver was the perfect city to film this particular film in…When we came here, we barely knew what we were doing, and as we got better, they grew with us, and coming back here, you’ve got a film community here that is equal to the one in Los Angeles in terms of the craft, in terms of the people that work the nuts and bolts that make the show. So anybody who comes here is gonna get as good as anywhere in the world.
"Plus," he went on, "you get amazing locations and the people are friendly and not jaded to have us filming in their neighbourhood. Even now when we shoot here, more than any other city than I’ve ever worked in, you get less flack from the people who live in the neighbourhoods you’re filming in...which kind of amazing, considering how much filming gets done in this city.”
Duchonvy now considers Vancouver his “home away from home”.

FONTE: Straight.com Filming of The X-Files sequel wraps

Goodbye, and thanks for all the aliens.
The cast and crew of the still-untitled X-Files feature film sequel wrapped up work in Vancouver with a news conference Wednesday, a brief lifting of a curtain of secrecy that the production has maintained through three months of filming.
"We've had lots of paparazzi," said writer-director Chris Carter. "In Langley a couple of days ago a black SUV pulled up on the side of the road and there was a long lens pointed at us."
The next day, pictures of stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, locked in a full-on kiss as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, appeared on Internet fansites alongside breathless speculation about the characters' are-they-or-aren't-they romance.
"We staged that," Mr. Duchovny told reporters at the Sutton Place Hotel, where media were informed Anderson would not attend due to illness.
"It's been a two-way street," says Mr. Carter of the prying eyes. "To tell you the truth, I would like to make the movie secretly and put it out there on July 25, have everybody get a gift they could open."
Mr. Duchovny finished work late the night before and was catching a plane to Los Angeles yesterday. The rest of the crew were to finish by week's end. The movie is a stand-alone story unconnected to the series' ongoing conspiracy thread, but beyond that they're not saying much.
"We're not doing an exercise in nostalgia to appeal to the fans of the show," said co-writer and producer Frank Spotnitz. "We saw this as an opportunity to introduce the characters to people who may have been too young . . . It has a reason for being, even if there'd never been a television show before."
Mr. Carter said their secrecy extended to the fluorescent-pink signs film productions use to direct crew to locations. Their signs read "Done One Productions."
The original series filmed for five years in Vancouver starting in 1993 and became a big hit for the Fox network, in turn boosting Vancouver's filmmaking profile.
"It would please me to no end to think that we were helpful to Vancouver, because this was the perfect city to film this particular show in," Mr. Duchovny said. "When we came here, we barely knew what we were doing, and as we got better, the crews grew with us."
The show moved production to Los Angeles after the fifth season and continued there for four more years. A 1998 feature film also shot in L.A.
But cast and crew kept their ties to Vancouver -- Mr. Carter still has a home in the city and Mr. Duchovny has filmed two movies here since The X-Files headed south.
Co-writer mr. Spotnitz said the new script was written specifically for locations in Vancouver and Pemberton, where they filmed for three weeks. As with the series, the B.C. locations stand in for places in the U.S. The producers showed reporters a trailer for the new movie with Ms. Anderson, Mr. Duchovny and shaggy co-star Billy Connolly searching a snowy field with dogs and sticks for some unspecified monster.
The new story picks up with the main characters in real time, six years after the events of the series. Mr. Duchovny, who left the series the year before it wrapped, said he always wanted The X-Files to become a feature franchise.
"This is a great, flawed, questing hero -- there's always more stories for that person to be involved in," said the actor, who now stars in another TV series, the dysfunctional-sex comedy Californication.
He brought his children with actress wife Tea Leoni to stay in Whistler during this latest working trip. "I do consider Vancouver one of the three cities I've lived in in my my life," Mr. Duchovny said. "It is a home away from home."

FONTE: National Post Vancouver's 'X factor' made X-Files a success: creator

VANCOUVER - The city has an "X factor" that made The X-Files the success it was, according to the show's creator and producer Chris Carter. "This city has definitely been one of the secrets of our success ... and it's just one of the reasons why we came back," said Carter.
Speaking to a small group of journalists gathered for what was billed as a "thank-you hug" for local media Wednesday, Carter, lead star David Duchovny and co-writer Frank Spotnitz did their best to answer questions about the production of the second X-Files movie without unveiling any plot points, or significant dramatic developments about the latest instalment in the paranoia-fuelled franchise.
What they could say was six years have passed in the lives of FBI agents Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson).
The intrepid investigators are still consumed by a desire for truth -- and maybe even each other -- and a lot of the action takes place in the midst of a snowbound location somewhere in the eastern United States. Anderson missed Wednesday's event due to illness.
The actual shooting locations were in and around Vancouver, including the town of Pemberton just north of Whistler, where cameras started rolling in December under a shroud of secrecy and several false names.
"We've been trying to keep the story a secret," said Carter. "We've been trying to preserve the element of surprise ... until people have a chance to see it in the theatre. One of the ways we've been able to do that was by not saying it's the X-Files movie."
Duchovny said his character's name never appeared on scripts or call-sheets for the same reasons.
"My character's name was Larry [which happens to be the name of Carter's dog]."
The second X-Files movie project is slated for release July 25.

FONTE: Vancouver Sun X-Files stars unveil release date for next film

VANCOUVER -- The truth is out there and it's come to Vancouver. One of the stars of the long-running X-Files television series, David Duchovny, and the shows' two creative minds, Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, officially announced the next motion picture to spin off from the popular science-fiction drama on Wednesday.
The not-yet-named film is expected to make it to the big screen on July 25, said an upbeat Duchovny.
The actor, who starred for nine seasons as detectives Fox Mulder, and his former co-star Gillian Anderson, will take the always-complicated relationship between Mulder and Scully in unexpected directions, Carter said. Neither Carter nor Spotnitz would spill the beans on any plot details, but said the movie would pick up where the series left off.
"The movie will feature some of the series' reoccurring characters, but we cannot reveal which ones yet,'' Carter said.
During its early seasons, the X-Files was filmed in Vancouver, but moved its production to L.A. because Duchovny reportedly didn't like the city's climate. But according to Duchovny, the "weather thing'' was not the reason the cast and crew made the move. "I think it's a great place,'' he said. "I've often fantasized about raising my kids in Vancouver,'' he said.
Carter and Spotnitz echoed each other' sentiments on the significance Vancouver had for the X-Files franchise, and what it meant for the film industry in Vancouver.
"Vancouver gave the show its original look,'' Carter said. "Despite what most people believe, we didn't come up here originally because of the economic benefits. We came up here for the fantastic forests and physical landscape.''
The X-Files' production crew has wrapped shooting the movie, and the actors have returned home.

FONTE: CTV.ca