On the heals of the recently announced "
X Files" Comic and the rumors surrounding a new "X Files" film, for Throwback Thursday this time around is the DOC on the making of the first X Files movie: "
X Files: Fight the Future", which laid the ground work where the series was going to go.
Taking place between seasons 5 and 6 we find the X Files unit dismantled and Agents Mulder and Scully reassigned. While investigating an Oklahoma City style bomb threat of a federal building in Dallas the agents find a wider conspiracy as Mulder discovers that the real target of the bomb is actually across the street from the Federal building, and that the reason for it is that the FEDS have a secret lab where they are storing the bodies of a young boy and fireman that have been infected by a black oily substance after falling into an uncharted cave system.
As on par for the theme of the "X Files" the black oily ooze is actually an extraterrestrial virus that transforms the host into a new species. And has a large government cover up.
The show came to an end in 2002 and during their 9 year run has spawned a second film (
"I Want to Believe"), several books and the publisher
IDW came out with a tenth season in comic form appropriately titled "
X Files: Season 10". Along with that the X Files franchised has also spun off several stand alones in both book and comic. One of which was a cross over with "30 Days of Night" premise.
On April 20th, 2014, IDW has said that they plan to release a new X Files mini-series in July entitled "X Files: Year Zero" that will set the stage of the origins of the X Files.
According to IDW:
In the 1940s, a shadowy informant known as "Mr. Xero" directed the FBI to a number of paranormal cases that would soon be classified as "X-Files," which were reserved for the improbable and unexplainable. When faced with an eerily similar "Mr. Zero" in the present, Agent Mulder resolves to uncover the truth about who this mystery person is and their connection to these cases.
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"The origins of the X-Files unit of the FBI were only hinted at in the TV show, and we're proud to present the story of how the precursors of our favorite paranormal agents established the division in the late 1940s," says editor Denton J. Tipton. "I think Bing and Millie will become fan-favorites alongside Mulder, Scully, Reyes and Doggett."
"I've always thought the 40s would be a wonderful setting for X-Files, with the Russian red menace, atomic mutations and flying saucers all lurking in the shadows— what I like to think of as 'UFO Noir,'" said [writer Karl] Kesel from an undisclosed location. "Of course, iconic characters like Mulder and Scully are a joy to write, and being given the opportunity to introduce their predecessors— Bing Ellinson and Millie Ohio— well, the truth is it's all a little unbelievable to me. But the unbelievable is what X-Files is all about, isn't it?"
Unfortunately for fans the comic will have be enough for now as Gillian Anderson spoke with IGN recently let it drop that mostly likely the anticipated new movie probably won't start until 2016 do to the fact that Chris Carter and his group is still figuring out the details of the script and Anderson herself probably won't have time to film until then.
What is believed about the new film that it probably won't follow the premise of the Alien conspiracy as it was prophesied at the end of the series that the Aliens' had planned for the colonization of Earth by 2012.
You can currently see Gillian Anderson staring in the NBC show "Crisis" and David Duchovny in the final season of Showtime's "Californication".
In 1987 another (short lived) series of the same name hit airways. Origainally entitled the 13th Hour, producer Frank Mancuso Jr.(Producer of Friday the 13th Part 2) thought that changing the name to Friday the 13th would draw a bigger audience. 