Era il 10 settembre 1993 quando debuttò negli Stati Uniti la serie televisiva X-Files. Una celebrazione del ventesimo anniversario è già avvenuta al Comic-Con di San Diego e anche il Roma Fiction Fest ha voluto offrire il suo tributo a una serie che ha cambiato il mondo dei telefilm caratterizzando a modo suo gli anni '90. Sono stati proiettati due episodi scritti dallo sceneggiatore naturalizzato italiano Frank Spotnitz che ha incontrato i fan italiani all'Auditorium Parco della musica ai quali ha rivelato che le avventure di Mulder e Scully potrebbero non essere ancora c ... [Continua a leggere]

Cospirazioni, alieni, agenzie governative. Una musica che è diventata leggendaria, frasi come “I want to believe” e “The truth is out there” che rappresentano lo spirito del tempo, di quegli anni Novanta dominati da teorie del complotto e di governi ombra. Sono passati vent’anni dall’esordio di X-Files sul piccolo schermo e il suo peso nelle narrazioni contemporanee è sempre forte. “La serie è nata dall'esigenza di spaventare la gente, di dargli qualcosa su cui riflettere e avere i brividi”, racconta Frank Spotnitz, autore e ... [Continua a leggere]

Al Roma Fiction Fest è arrivato Frank Spotnitz, una delle grandi  menti delle fiction, coproduttore e autore di X Files, serie che per un decennio ha spaventato gli Usa il mondo, uno dei prodotti più innovativi di sempre della tv. Spotnitz, da qualche giorno anche cittadino italiano, al festival della fiction romano ha ricevuto ieri il Premio Excellence Award, prima della cerimonia e dopo la proiezioni di due episodi di X - Files scelti da lui Memento Mori e Milagro, ha incontrato pubblico e stampa in una Masterclass e parlato di X-Files. Del suo passato, delle sue fonti ... [Continua a leggere]

Le domande che sono state rivolte a Spotnitz vertevano sulla serie fantascientifica e sull’evoluzione dello show attraverso le complicate relazioni tra i personaggi, una costante che è andata crescendo nel corso degli anni.Spotnitz ha raccontato dei suoi anni prima di approdare come sceneggiatore a X-Files, “Ho studiato giornalismo all’università e ho fatto il corrispondente in Francia per due anni. Dopo sette anni, iniziai a lavorare per X-Files. Era esattamente quello che volevo fare, e Chris Carte (il creatore della serie) mi ha sostenuto”.X-Files &egra ... [Continua a leggere]

Saturday, October 12, 2013 6:30 pm ETNew York In Person David Duchovny Gillian Anderson Trust us on this: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are coming to the Paley Center to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the premiere of The X-Files, the iconic sci-fi series that largely defined the paranoid thriller for the nineties, and whose influence can still be felt in supernatural dramas airing today. Though running on Fox from 1993 to 2002, The X-Files was clearly rooted in the seventies—the age of Watergate, which creator Chris Carter has cited as a defining moment in the awakening ... [Continua a leggere]

Appuntamento tradizionale del RFF sono le Master Class, gli incontri incentrati sulla scrittura televisiva con protagonisti internazionali. La prima si terrà lunedì 30 settembre a Viterbo (ore 11) nell'Aula Magna del Rettorato dell'Università della Tuscia dove sarà nostro ospite un grande autore di cinema internazionale formatosi in televisione come Atom Egoyan, due volte nominato all'Oscar e vincitore del premio Speciale della Giuria al Festival di Cannes nel 1997 con "Il dolce domani". Nel pomeriggio il FictionFest torna a Roma per incontrare in Auditorium Frank ... [Continua a leggere]

Q. After playing so many serious roles, was it fun doing an animated film? A. I've worked on a couple of animated pieces before, like The Simpsons. It's a whole other world. Lots of fun, but harder than you would imagine. Q. Did you score cool points with your sons, who are 6 and 4, doing Room on the Broom? A. I've read the book to them probably 10,000 times, which is one of the reasons I was interested in the voiceover role. But they don't know I did it. Actually, they don't really know what it is I do. I'd rather keep it from them as long as possible because I'd rather they like me not b ... [Continua a leggere]

OTTAWA — Two decades after FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully began investigating the paranormal, X-philes still want to believe. More than 100 diehard X-Files fans braved a fall-like night as cold as the cases their favourite agents were tasked with solving Friday night to celebrate the science fiction show’s 20th anniversary. Veronique Turpin, 25, was only a child when the X-Files started its nine-year run on Sept. 10, 1993. Turpin said her parents wouldn’t let her watch the show because she was too young for the eerie conspiracies Mulder and Scully investigated. &ldq ... [Continua a leggere]

On September 10, 1993, a strange series called The X-Files infiltrated Friday nights on Fox, with brooding story lines involving government conspiracies, sewer-dwelling man-monsters, and little green men. No one knew quite what to make of it at first — including the Fox executives who took a gamble on the project. But series creator and first-time showrunner Chris Carter (pictured above right, with stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson), a former editor of Surfing magazine, continued to carry out his obsessive vision of recapturing the hair-raising urgency and weirdness of Kolchak: T ... [Continua a leggere]

Cast as Special Agent Scully at 24, it is unsurprising that Gillian Anderson left for London at the end of the decade long X-Files series. In the 10 years that followed, Anderson shunned Hollywood and reinvented her career in the UK with low-key roles in film and television costume dramas such as Bleak House, The House of Mirth, The Crimson Petal and the White and Great Expectations. "Every time somebody asks me if I'm interested in doing an iconic literature character, it's really hard to ignore," Anderson explains. Establishing a roster of women as far from Scully as possible – Henrik ... [Continua a leggere]

The X-Files creator Chris Carter is nearing a return to the small screen. Amazon has picked up to pilot The After, a post-apocalyptic drama that Carter is attached to write and direct, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The drama takes place the moment after the apocalypse and hails from Georgeville TV. Georgeville founders Marc Rosen and Reliance's Motion Picture Capital previously worked with Carter on The After in October when the project was shopped to buyers at MIPCOM. Carter spent nearly a decade at the helm of the David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson vehicle, which ran from 19 ... [Continua a leggere]

At this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny joined X-Files creator Chris Carter for a 20th anniversary panel discussion of the show that launched the pair as FBI agents Scully and Mulder. During the panel, one man prefaced his question to Anderson by telling her he found her “delicious” (albeit in one of her latest roles, on Hannibal); another woman fought through tears (“I’m being fucking pathetic!”) as she told the panel of the huge impact the show had on her life.   Leaning into the crowd and tal ... [Continua a leggere]

Twenty years after Mulder, Scully, and Cigarette-Smoking Man entered the world, The X-Files mastermind Chris Carter remains a very busy man. During a recent conversation with Vulture to discuss the show’s anniversary — check back next week for our full Vulture Transcript — Carter surprised us with the news that he’s currently developing a series with AMC. This project is in addition to the long-gestating one-hour sci-fi drama The After, which Amazon Studios has reportedly snatched up. No stranger to divvying up his attention (remember, during the nine-season run of The ... [Continua a leggere]

In the latest issue of Empire - the one with Loki or Thor on the front, out this Thursday, August 28 - you can read our extended interview with the creator of The X-Files, Chris Carter. To whet your appetite, here are a couple of quotes below which should excite any X-philes out there... There are a lot of X-Files references in a British show called Spaced. Have you seen it?"No, but Gillian [Anderson] worked with Simon Pegg on a movie [2008's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People] and told me that he was a big fan. We actually thought about putting him in the second movie, b ... [Continua a leggere]

I make no bones about the fact that “Home,” written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by Kim Manners, is one of my all-time favorite episodes of The X-Files (1993 – 2002). This fourth season installment is ultra-violent, witty, and scary-as-hell. “Home” is so disturbing and disgusting in fact that Fox TV only aired it once, and then banned the episode from prime-time television permanently. Or as Chris Carter told me during a 2009 interview: “We did an episode like "Home," and the day after we did it I was given a very stern lecture about never, ... [Continua a leggere]