Throwback Thursday: Making Of The X-Files: Fight The Future (Documentary)

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".  

Road Train Horror 2010 [Full Movie] ENG

This fun little morsel comes form the land down under. Not the down under that has given us the Hobbit films, but pretty damn close.

Originally entitled "Road Train" but more commonly known as "Road Kill" we follow the exploits of Marcus (Xavier Samuel), Craig (Bob Morley),  Nina (Sophie Lowe) and Liz (Georgina Haig) as they have to confront a monstrous vehicle that runs their SUV off the road as they travel through the Aussie Outback. The quartet survives the crash, although, Craig is injured. Their nemesis, the TRAIN TRUCK, however  is stopped not far from their wrecked vehicle. Liz and Marcus Investigate  and find  the truck empty of the driver.

As Craig and Nina arrive they are assaulted by the driver who is wielding a gun and has hidden in the brush along the side road forcing the group to take the truck. As they speed away to what they think is safety the four find themselves at just the beginning of an even more sinister experience.





Until next time...

Neill Blomkamp's "Elysium"... First Images and What Not

Class warfare seems to be the theme of the day whether it is real life or that of Hollywood productions, so it should come to no surprise that the Sci-Fi genre is going to follow suit with Matt Damon’s new flick “Elysium”.

The film centers around an orbital space station named -surprisingly, Elysium- where the rich seem to live the life as they always have for centuries, while they orbit around the an apocalyptic 22nd century diseased ridden Earth. Damon plays the central character Max, an ex-con who is trying to get up to the space station because he is dying, and he is given a mission that will, hopefully, not only save his life but equality to the world and people as a whole.

“Elysium” Also stars Jodie Foster as Secretary Rhodes, an evil and twisted government official that will stop at nothing to enforce Elysium’s anti-immigration laws and so in effect keeping the luxurious lifestyles that the rich have come accustom too… oh, yes, the have-nots so want to be part of the haves.

Sound familiar?

It should, also, come to no surprise that “Elysium” was written and directed by “District 9’s” Neill Blomkamp who based a lot of that film on the way the South African government treated blacks and Apartheid. So, I believe, a lot of what “Elysium” rings with is Arizona and their immigration laws (and I believe a lot of Secretary Rhodes’ character can be said comes from Arizona’s governor). After reading the over-all plot synopsis, it seems that we have been down this route of sociopolitical ideas before (Think George Romero’s zombie films, “Escape from New York” (John Carpenter), even that of the “Resident Evil” franchise, to name a few).

Do we need another film like this? One that appears to be -a much better and grittier, but sort of the same premise- “Judge Dredd” meets “Total Recall” retread? I don’t know about you but I for one is getting a little tired of it. But it might be fun to see Matt Damon back to a grittier, tough guy role in the realm of Bourne.

Originally slated for a March release, but it appears that it might get pushed until August.

Update April 10th, 2013

Here is the first trailer for the film. It looks it'll hit theaters on August 9th