GHOSTWOOD 086: "Sanguinarium" Is Up!

 
"Looks like she took a pretty good shot at you."
"Yes, apparently."
"Nothing that a little plastic surgery won’t patch up though, hunh?"
-- Fox Mulder and Dr. Jack Franklin, The X-Files: "Sanguinarium"

It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast!  In this episode, we conclude our retrospective of Twin Peaks actors appearing on The X-Files as we discuss "Sanguinarium", the sixth episode of The X-Files Season Four from 1996, featuring David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, Richard Beymer as Dr. Jack Franklin, and O-Lan Jones as Nurse Rebecca Waite!

LET'S ROCK!

In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan being a bad influence regarding doughnuts, laying out a Twin Peaks doughnut spread, my insides trying to kill me, skipping "Excelsius Dei" in our retrospective, Ben Horne not having sex with Emory Battis, wondering if Ben Horne knew Ike the Spike, watching Vincent Price die in Edward Scissorhands, Rodney Dangerfield in Natural Born Killers, Jessica Alba in Sin City, the backwards "Vanitas Vanitatum" written in blood, the one Twin Peaks actor who appeared on The Simpsons, wiccans complaining about "Sanguinarium", "Home" being the vilest episode of The X-Files ever, Nurse Waite placing pentagrams everywhere, Mulder and Scully using a pentagram on the door of Nurse Waite's house as probable cause to enter, Nurse Waite lying in wait for Dr. Franklin inside a bathtub full of blood, wondering how the Aesthetic Surgery Unit stayed open for business after three murders by three of their doctors, Carrie Fisher in The Blues Brothers, the Moonlighting episode "Atomic Shakespeare", crappy '90s internet, Richard Beymer's big Face-Off peel, Mulder and Scully's completely failing to arrest Clifford Cox, Tipper Gore and the PMRC, Lady Cassandra on Doctor Who, Ghostwood Mail from Holly Mac, Jesse Jackson and DJ Nik, Robert Patrick not reprising John Doggett in The X-Files revival, everybody being sad that we're leaving The X-Files behind, the attack of the CyberJesses, The Elephant Man being a bit of a downer, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 087, as Xan and I discuss the new Criterion Collection blu-ray release of The Elephant Man, the 1980 historical drama film by director David Lynch, featuring Sir John Hurt as John Merrick, Sir Anthony Hopkins as Frederick Treves, Anne Bancroft as Madge Kendal, and Sir John Gielgud as Francis Carr Gomm!

GHOSTWOOD 085: "Revelations" Is Up!

 
"Stop!  Federal Agent!  I'm armed!  Let him go.  Let him go and we'll talk about it."
"There's nothing to talk about.  I was called upon."
-- Dana Scully and Simon Gates, The X-Files: "Revelations"

It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast!  In this episode, we continue our retrospective of Twin Peaks actors appearing on The X-Files as we pay tribute to the late Clark Middleton and discuss "Revelations", the eleventh episode of The X-Files Season Three from 1995, featuring David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, Kenneth Welsh as Simon Gates, Michael Berryman as Owen Jarvis, and R. Lee Ermey as Reverend Patrick Findley!

LET'S ROCK!

In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan making alcoholism her new hobby, our tribute to Clark Middleton, Kenneth Welsh's TV and movie credits, Xan's Jonathan Harris anecdote, wondering why Fox made an Americanized version of Broadchurch, R. Lee Ermey as Col. Leslie Hapablap on The Simpsons, the faith-based concept of stigmata, "Revelations" being the first deep-dive into Scully's Catholic faith, wondering why David Lynch never worked with Michael Berryman, "Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies, Scully's dog Queequeg, Mulder's hypocrisy of telling Scully not to allow her faith to cloud her judgment, women not meeting Chris Hansen on To Catch a Predator, the various Jerusalem references, wondering what the deal is with Kevin's bi-location and Simon's heat hands, Xan's little kid story descriptions of The Wizard of Oz and Twin Peaks, Gavin from Kids in the Hall, Ghostwood Mail from Holly Mac, Jesse Jackson and DJ Nik, Ben Horne on The X-Files, Xan going on Jesse's Set Lusting Bruce, Mulder and the Doctor licking stuff they shouldn't, Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 086, as Xan and I discuss "Sanguinarium", the sixth episode of The X-Files Season Four, featuring Twin Peaks actor Richard Beymer as Dr. Jack Franklin, Arlene Mazerolle as Dr. Theresa Shannon, and O-Lan Jones as Nurse Rebecca Waite!

GHOSTWOOD 084: "Humbug" Is Up!

"You took one quick look at me, and decided that you could deduce my entire life.  Never would it have occurred to you that a person of my height could have possibly obtained a degree in hotel management."
"I’m sorry. I meant no offense."
"Well then, why should I take offense?  Just because it’s human nature to make instant judgments of others based solely on their physical appearances?  Why, I have done the same thing to you, for example.  I have taken in your all-American features, your dour demeanor, your unimaginative necktie design and concluded that you work for the government.  An FBI agent.  But do you see the tragedy here?  I have mistakenly reduced you to a stereotype, a caricature, instead of regarding you as a specific, unique individual."
"But I am an FBI agent."
-- Mr. Nutt and Fox Mulder, The X-Files: "Humbug"

It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast!  In this episode, we continue our retrospective of Twin Peaks actors appearing on The X-Files by discussing "Humbug", the twentieth episode of The X-Files Season Two from 1995, featuring David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, Michael J. Anderson as Mr. Nutt, and Vincent Schiavelli as Lanny!

LET'S ROCK!

In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like our parents not knowing how to hook up their streaming TV and internet, Columbus TV weatherman Mike Davis getting busted for child porn, writer Darin Morgan's offbeat X-Files scripts, profilic X-Files director Kim Manners, Maximum Overdrive and bad Stephen King movies, Vincent Schiavelli in Tomorrow Never Dies and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The X-Files casting real-life sideshow performers Jim Rose and The Enigma as Dr. Blockhead and The Conundrum, Darin Morgan playing the Flukeman in "The Host" and Eddie Van Blundht in "Small Potatoes", Gillian Anderson chewing an insect, the Tod Browning film Freaks, "The Elephant Man" Joseph Merrick's diagnosis of Proteus Syndrome, needing to be vigilant of genetic manipulation, Lobster Boy being boiled and dipped in butter, the Alligator Man's heated backyard swimming pool, Mulder being the annoying know-it-all sideshow tourist, Scully's sleight-of-hand skills, P.T. Barnum's "This Way to the Egress" con, Mr. Nutt calling out Mulder for judging him based solely on his physical appearance, Mulder assuming Mr. Nutt is creeping on Scully in her trailer, Darin Morgan embracing the comedic potential of The X-Files, Lanny's conjoined twin Leonard, the Conundrum eating Leonard, Xan seeing Jim Rose and The Enigma at Lollapalooza, Dr. Blockhead calling out Mulder's for his good looks, Ghostwood Mail from Holly Mac, Jesse Jackson and DJ Nik, Windom Earle on The X-Files, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 085, as Xan and I discuss "Revelations", the twentieth episode of The X-Files Season Two, featuring Twin Peaks actor Kenneth Welsh as Simon Gates, Kevin Zegers as Kevin Kryder, and R. Lee Ermey as Reverend Patrick Findley!

GHOSTWOOD 083: "Shapes" Is Up!

"You even have an Indian name, 'Fox.'  You should be Running Fox.  Or Stinky Fox."

"Just as long as it’s not Spooky Fox."

-- Ish and Fox Mulder, The X-Files: "Shapes"

It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast!  In this episode, we continue our retrospective of Twin Peaks actors appearing on The X-Files by discussing "Shapes", the nineteenth episode of The X-Files Season One from 1994, featuring David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, Michael Horse as Sheriff Charles Tskany, and Donnelly Rhodes as Jim Parker!

LET'S ROCK!

In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan and I trying to be the responsible ones during the Coronavirus pandemic, waiting for Lex Luthor to strike the San Andreas Fault with a nuclear missile in 2020, Michael Horse as Tonto in The Legend of the Lone Ranger, Donnelly Rhodes as Dutch Leitner on Soap, the very first X-File case being initiated by J. Edgar Hoover in 1946, episode writer Marilyn Osborn taking creative liberties with the Manitou legend, the portrayal of Native Americans on '90s television shows, Xan's husband Chris hating the movie Titanic, Michael Horse looking an awful lot like his Twin Peaks character Deputy Hawk as Sheriff Charles Tskany, The X-Files attempting to appeal to Twin Peaks fans, Xan's Alan Ruck impression, Xan and I having to learn about the Tulsa Massacre by watching Watchmen, how Sheriff Charles Tskany and Deputy Hawk could be the same fictional character, the transformation homage to An American Werewolf in London, the current debate of whether actors should be allowed to play certain characters, Donnelly Rhodes as Doc Cottle on Battlestar Galactica, Ghostwood Mail from Holly Mac, DJ Nik and Jesse Jackson, Marty Feldman as Igor in Young Frankenstein, Xan returning to Next Stop Everywhere for our 200th episode, the first trailer for Denis Villeneuve's film adaptation of Dune looking a lot like David Lynch's Dune from 1984, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 084, as Xan and I discuss "Humbug", the twentieth episode of The X-Files Season Two, featuring Twin Peaks actor Michael J. Anderson as Mr. Nutt, Jim Rose as Dr. Blockhead, and Vincent Schiavelli as Lanny!

GHOSTWOOD 082: "Beyond the Sea" Is Up!

"Did Boggs confess?"
"No.  No, it was five hours of Boggs’ channeling.  After three hours I asked him to summon up the soul of Jimi Hendrix and requested 'All Along the Watchtower.'  You know, guy’s been dead twenty years, but he still hasn’t lost his edge."
-- Special Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, The X-Files: "Beyond the Sea"

It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast!  In this episode, we continue our retrospective of Twin Peaks actors appearing on The X-Files by discussing "Beyond the Sea:, the thirteenth episode of The X-Files Season One from 1994, featuring David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, Don Davis as Captain William Scully, and Brad Dourif as Luther Lee Boggs!

LET'S ROCK!

In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like more on the various Twin Peaks home video releases and re-releases, expanding the orbit of Twin Peaks discussions, neither of us knowing anything about Stargate SG-1, more of my argument that Major Briggs on Twin Peaks and Captain William Scully on The X-Files are the same fictional character, going down the Richard D. Anderson Wormhole, Don Davis in A League of Their Own, Nicholas Lea pre-Alex Krycek, Brad Dourif in Alien Resurrection, the Incredible Hulk TV series, Scully's small rebellions against her parents, "Beyond the Sea" being written in response to criticisms about Scully's limited characterization, the reversal of Scully being the believer and Mulder being the skeptic, Chris Carter convincing the president of 20th Century Fox to let him cast Brad Dourif, Don Davis sitting in another Twin Peaks-esque chair, why you should never get out of your car until you see a police officer's ID, Scott Glenn as Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, Boggs telling Scully he has a final message from her father but won't tell her what it is unless she's there for his execution, X-Files writers Glen Morgan and James Wong, Ghostwood Mail from Holly Mac, DJ Nik and Jesse Jackson, Xan never getting into Babylon 5, various covers of  the song "Beyond the Sea", Xan watching Doom Patrol, Jerry Springer's tagline, and more!

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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 083, as Xan and I discuss "Shapes", the nineteenth episode of The X-Files Season One, featuring Twin Peaks actor Michael Horse as Sheriff Charles Tskany, Ty Miller as Lyle Parker, and Donnelly Rhodes as Jim Parker!

GHOSTWOOD 081: "The X-Files: Pilot" Is Up!

"The answers are there.  You just have to know where to look."
"That’s why they put the 'I' in FBI."
-- Special Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, The X-Files: "Pilot"

It is happening again...My co-host with the most Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Ghostwood: The Twin Peaks Podcast!  In this episode, we begin exploring Twin Peaks actors appearing on The X-Files, starting with the pilot episode of The X-Files from 1993, introducing David Duchovny as Fox Mulder, Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully, William B. Davis as Cigarette Smoking Man, and Zachary Ansley as Billy Miles!

LET'S ROCK!

In this episode, Xan and I discuss things like not having a problem if people wanted to punch Georgia's governor in the stomach, The X-Files filling the Twin Peaks void, character actor William B. Davis, Don Davis appearing in Look Who's Talking, Xan being a fan of The Vanilla Ice Project, Chris Carter going against stereotypes and making Mulder the believer and Scully the skeptic, deleted and cut scenes from the pilot, David Duchovny having great legs, wondering how Mulder found out Scully was being assigned as his partner in time to do research on her before they met, wondering where Mulder got his can of red spray paint, our disappointment that David Patrick Kelly never appeared on The X-Files, Mulder initially being very reckless and eating his sunflower seeds, wondering why Billy Miles wasn't under video surveillance at the psychiatric hospital, the introduction of the nasal cavity implants and the concept of human/alien hybrids, Mulder still being the kid who witnessed his sister Samantha being abducted and his comparison to Bruce Wayne, Xan's love of the Flukeman, Ghostwood Mail from DJ Nik and Jesse Jackson, '90s syndicated horror TV shows, Mulder and Scully having a working relationship, Nicholas Lea being so good at being horrible as Krycek, Xan and I being X-perienced, and more!

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Be sure to come back next week for Episode 082, as Xan and I discuss "Beyond the Sea", the thirteenth episode of The X-Files Season One, featuring Twin Peaks actor Don S. Davis as Captain William Scully, Brad Dourif as Luther Lee Boggs, and introducing Sheila Larken as Margaret Scully!

THE X-FILES' Chris Carter Struggles to Explain "My Struggle III" Revelation

The truth is (hopefully) still out there.

Last night's premiere of The X-Files Season 11, "My Struggle III," delivered one of the series' most shocking and controversial revelations to date, dividing the fanbase of X-Philes into those either blown away or downright disgusted by the latest plot twist in the series' alien mythology arc.

The very moment "My Struggle III" ended at 9:00 p.m. EST, Entertainment Weekly posted an interview with X-Files creator Chris Carter, who wrote and directed the episode, and attempted to explain the revelation was 18 years in the making.

Needless to say, SPOILER WARNINGS are in play here, so consider yourselves warned...

Okay, so the episode's final scene features FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) having a conversation with Carl Gerhard Busch Spender (William B. Davis), better known as the Cigarette Smoking Man (CSM), who reveals his very skeevy connection to William Scully, the son of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson).

The connection, as we learn, dates back to the Season 7 episode "En Ami" (French for "as a friend" and written by Davis), where CSM manipulates Scully into taking a road trip with him using a false promise of a cure for cancer.  We flash back to the footage of CSM creepily telling Scully "I confess I’ve always had a particular affection for you.  I assure you my intentions are honorable…My affection for you is special…"  CSM eventually pulls up to a house, with Scully asleep in the passenger seat, and puts on a pair of leather gloves.  Scully wakes up the next morning in pajamas that weren’t hers and accuses CSM of drugging her, which he scoffs at and denies.  And later, in the Season 7 finale "Requiem," Scully learns she's pregnant and believes the father to be Fox Mulder (David Duchovny).

Well, CSM tells Skinner he impregnated Scully with alien-assisted science to create "the first superhuman child."  Skinner demands to know who William’s father is, if it's not Mulder, and CSM replies, "I am.  William is my son."  At this point, everyone watching the episode officially freaks the hell out.  But let's keep in mind that CSM is a lying liar who lies, so is he just manipulating Skinner here?  More importantly, is Carter just manipulating fan expectations, only to reveal something else later on in Season 11?  For those who paid attention, the tag at the end of the opening credits said "I WANT TO BELIEVE", only to fade into the words "I WANT TO LIE", so maybe there's still more to CSM's story.  

And here's Entertainment Weekly's Q&A with Chris Carter, which includes some rather awkward comments that probably won't improve fans' opinion of Carter...

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First, the premiere reveals what we saw in the finale was all a vision Scully was having. Did you know that two years ago?

CHRIS CARTER: Yes. If you look at how I staged the scene in Mulder’s office, the way I staged the scenes on the bridge with the spacecraft hovering above Scully, you can see that was part of a plan. The camera pushes right into her eye at both ends of the show, and it was all of a piece.

EW: Are you concerned that fans will feel like they were denied real resolution on that scenario?

CC: You know, it’s playing with the story, the characters and the history of the characters I hope in an interesting way that will be satisfying — not necessarily in the immediate future but it will make sense once we get to this season’s finale.

EW: Likewise, back in Season 7, did you know at the time what was really going on when CSM drugged Scully?

CC: Yes.

EW: So William’s parentage reveal has been part of your plan for the show since 1999?

CC: Yes. But, of course, if The X-Files never came back, we would have never gotten to explore it.

EW: When CSM says he’s William’s father, is he literally his father, to some biological extent? Along with alien DNA?

CC: No. He’s the figurative father if he’s not the actual father. He didn’t rape Scully. He impregnated her with science.

EW: I suspect fans are going to have some strong feelings about Mulder not being the father and Scully being impregnated by CSM while she was drugged. What led you to this move?

CC: It adds to the characters in an interesting emotional way. And because the audience is now in on this truth, and Mulder and Scully are not, these revelations are huge for this show because they’re huge for the characters. Mulder and Scully’s life history, both professional and personal, are the heart of the show.

EW: How does this impact the storyline moving forward?

CC: It does impact it in a big way and you’ll see that in the arc of the series… This fact is hovering over them and everything they do and say to each other is kind of loaded as they’re walking in the dark. It makes for interesting storytelling to put the audience in a privileged point of view that could ultimately explode in the end.

EW: Gillian Anderson has said this might be her last season. You’ve hinted it might end on a cliffhanger once again. Are you concerned about the show possibly ending with things still unresolved?

CC: I always end it as if it were the last one. It’s become a thing you come to anticipate with this show with “The Erlenmeyer Flask” in season 1 — we closed The X-Files and killed off a beloved character [Deep Throat played by Jerry Hardin]. Things are often sacrificed in the finale. That’s the interesting thing for me. There’s a vertical corner in the final that I think will get people’s attention…

The X-Files Season 11 continues Wednesday nights on Fox at 8:00 p.m. EST.

Your 2018 Geek Movie and TV Calendar

Once again, the new year brings us closer to The Films and TV Shows You've Been Dying to See for Like Forever.  If you enjoy sci-fi, fantasy and comic book based entertainment as I do, you already have several must-see flicks and television programs in the pipeline for 2018.  With that in mind, I thought I'd go ahead and give a helpful chronological rundown of which geek movie and TV goodness arrives when.  Some of these films will be worth the long wait, others you wouldn't watch even if they were on Netflix, but each have their audiences and key target demographics.  Start planning your work vacation/sick/personal days accordingly.

JANUARY

1 - Lucifer, The Gifted (TV)

3 - The X-Files (TV)

7 - The Simpsons, Star Trek: Discovery (TV)
10 - The Magicians (TV)

12 - Electric Dreams (TV)
15 - Supergirl (TV)
16 - The Flash, Black Lightning (TV)

17 - Riverdale (TV)

18 - Arrow (TV)

FEBRUARY

February 2018? - Last Week Tonight (TV)

2 - Altered Carbon (TV)
12 - Legends of Tomorrow (TV)

16 - Black Panther (Movie)

25 - The Walking Dead (TV)

MARCH

March 2018? - The Americans, Gotham (TV)

8 - Jessica Jones (TV)

9 - A Wrinkle in Time (Movie)

16 - Tomb Raider (Movie)
21 - Krypton (TV)

23 - Pacific Rim Uprising (Movie)

30 - Ready Player One (Movie)

APRIL

April 2018? - Legion (TV)

13 - The New Mutants (Movie)

16 - Supergirl (TV)

MAY

May 2018? - American Gods (TV)

4 - Avengers: Infinity War (Movie)

25 - Solo: A Star Wars Story (Movie)

JUNE

June 2018? - Preacher (TV)

1 - Deadpool 2 (Movie)

15 - The Incredibles 2 (Movie)

22 - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Movie)

JULY

July 2018? - Outcast (TV)

6 - Ant-Man and the Wasp (Movie)

20 - Alita: Battle Angel (Movie)

27 - Mission: Impossible 6 (Movie)

AUGUST

August 2018? - Luke Cage
3 - The Predator (Movie)

SEPTEMBER

September 2018? - Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Star Trek: Discovery (TV)

OCTOBER

October 2018? - The Flash, The Gifted, Stranger Things (TV)

5 - Venom (Movie)

NOVEMBER

November 2018? - The Venture Bros.

2 - X-Men: Dark Phoenix (Movie)

16 - Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Movie)

DECEMBER

14 - Mortal Engines, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Movie)

21 - Aquaman, Bumblebee (Movie)

25 - Doctor Who 2018 Christmas Special (TV)

THE X-FILES Season 11 Trailer Debuts at NYCC 2017

The truth is still out there...at least for ten more episodes.

The last day of New York Comic Con 2017 was an eventful one for X-Philes, with the release of the first trailer for The X-Files Season 11, featuring the return of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.  The series will return for ten episodes, once again with executive producer and creator Chris Carter.

The two-minute trailer opens with an ominous voiceover from Scully as she says "Mulder...I've seen it.  I've seen how it begins."

We then see images from the Season 10 finale, "My Struggle II", which ended with Scully traveling to the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. to assist Mulder and FBI Special Agent Kyd Miller (Robbie Amell).  With Mulder too badly ill to survive without a stem cell transplant, Scully mentioned that William, their son, would have to be the donor.  While Scully and Miller discussed Mulder's prognosis, Mulder began to succumb to the virus killing him.  Suddenly, a beam of light shined down onto Miller, Scully, and Mulder, and a triangle-shaped UFO slowly descended and hovered above them.  The episode ended with Scully looking up at the lights of the spacecraft, shining down directly onto her and her partners.

We cut to a voiceover from the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis), as we see Scully walking through a crowded hospital corridor.  "I'm here to offer you a deal," he says as we see Mulder and Scully running through Arlington Cemetery at night.  "Civilization is in its final stages.  I'm asking you to betray the whole human race."

The trailer reveals that CSM is sitting in the passenger seat of a car with FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi).  "Do you mind if I smoke?" he asks.

An older man tells Mulder to "Kill him, before he kills us all" and we glimpse Barbara Hershey as new character Erika Price.  The older man tells Mulder "You're going to save humanity."

Mulder counters, "You want to see blood in the streets, the extermination of seven billion people?"

We then see Scully investigating some sort of facility by herself as her voiceover says "I have to find our son."

Next, we see static-filled cellphone video of Richard Langly (Dean Haglund) from the Lone Gunmen as he warns "Mulder!  They know what we know!"

Mulder and Scully meet with Skinner in a parking garage at night.  Scully tells Skinner, "We need your help...even if we don't trust you."

"How did we get here?" asks Skinner.

We see an interesting action sequence of Scully diving all the way underneath a kitchen table, then overturning it to use as a shield as she fires her weapons against some attackers in black ski masks.

The older man from earlier says to Mulder, "It is the boy, Mr. Mulder."

"My son is none of your business!" replies Mulder angrily.

"He's a very special child."

We then see Scully looking back at a long-haired teenaged male standing behind her, although we can't make out his face.  "William..." gasps Scully.

We cut to Scully clutching her head and gasping in pain inside a hospital.  Weak in her hospital bed, she carresses Mulder's face and whispers to him, "You have to find them, and you have to stop him, before he unleashes hell on Earth.

Fleeting images follow of Mulder and Skinner going at each other in Scully's hospital room, someone trying to strangle Scully, and some sort of strange creature with nasty-looking claws attacking a young girl.

Next, we see Mulder standing beside some statues depicting odd figures apparently laughing as we hear another voiceover from Scully.  "The truth still lies in the X-Files, Mulder."

The last scene is a fleeting image of what appears of be a very young Cigarette Smoking Man smirking as he drags on a cigarette, with a small silvery alien standing off to the side.

If you'd like to check out the new Season 11 trailer, you can view it below thanks to the official TV Guide account on YouTube...



The X-Files will return to Fox for Season 11 sometime in 2018.

THE X-FILES Revival Teaser Trailer Debuts on Fox

The truth is still out there...and I couldn't be happier.

Last night, viewers of the Fox series Gotham got the first good look at the upcoming revival of The X-Files, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.  In a two-part teaser totaling 45 seconds, we see the return of Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner, and a very familiar hand holding a cigarette.

The trailer opens with Scully answering her spiffy 2015 iPhone, after checking that Mulder is calling.  "I'm here," says Mulder, looking at her from behind the doors of a hospital intensive care unit.

"They police us and spy on us, tell us that makes us safer," Mulder remarks as we see fleeting images of Scully at the Capitol Building, a flying drone, and Mulder in his empty former FBI office (pencils are still stuck in the ceiling tiles after all these years) with a bearded Skinner. "We've never been in more danger."

Scully sees the words "Don't give up" handwritten on the dirty rear winshield of a car as Skinner replies, "Then do something about it, Mulder."

"This is my life.  This is everything I believe in," continues Mulder as we then see soldiers from the past with the dead body of a child.

"You are on dangerous ground here," Scully tells Mulder, who replies, "I know what I'm doing."

We see more of the soldiers on a remote military outpost and Scully drawing her gun on someone wearing a possible hazmat suit.

And then, we hear the voice of William B. Davis, reprising his role as the Cigarette-Smoking Man as his hand is shown with (suprise!) a cigarette.  "We have a small problem," he says, somehow still alive after being supposedly killed by a rocket launched from a helicopter in the final X-Files episode "The Truth."

If you'd like to check out the teaser, you can view it below thanks to Television Promos on YouTube...



The X-Files returns to Fox following the NFC Championship Game on January 24, 2016.

THE X-FILES Revival Casts Joel McHale as Tad O'Malley

Time for a #sixepisodesandamovie hashtag? 

The Hollywood Reporter has word that Fox's upcoming revival of The X-Files has cast Joel McHale as Tad O'Malley, the anchor of a popular conservative Internet news network who becomes an unlikely ally for Fox Mulder.

McHale is the first new actor cast for the six-episode miniseries, joining returning X-Files stars David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Mitch Pileggi.  Series creator Chris Carter is scripting all six episodes and will serve as executive producer, while Mark Snow will return as series composer.

McHale, 43, is best known as Jeff Winger on the NBC/Yahoo Screen series Community, and as the host of The Soup.  In addition, he's appeared in the films Spider-Man 2, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, Ted, and Deliver Us from Evil.  His other television work includes Sons of Anarchy, Pushing Daisies, CSI: Miami, Will & Grace, and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

The X-Files returns to Fox on January 24, 2016.

THE X-FILES Officially Reopened for Six-Episode Series on Fox

The truth is officially out there once again.

The Hollywood Reporter has word that Fox has announced the television classic The X-Files will return for a six-episode revival.  David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will reprise their original roles as Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, with production beginning this summer for a later premiere date.

The series, which ran for nine seasons from 1993 to 2002, had two feature films (The X-Files: Fight the Future and The X-Files: I Want to Believe) and a shortly-lived spinoff series, The Lone Gunmen.  Currently, there is an official continuation in The X-Files: Season 10 comic book series from IDW Publishing.

"I think of it as a 13-year commercial break," said X-Files creator and executive producer Chris Carter, who will also returning.  "The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories."

"We had the privilege of working with Chris on all nine seasons of The X-Files – one of the most rewarding creative experiences of our careers – and we couldn't be more excited to explore that incredible world with him again," Fox Television Group chairmen and CEOs Gary Newman and Dana Walden said in a statement.  "The X-Files was not only a seminal show for both the studio and the network, it was a worldwide phenomenon that shaped pop culture – yet remained a true gem for the legions of fans who embraced it from the beginning.  Few shows on television have drawn such dedicated fans as The X-Files, and we're ecstatic to give them the next thrilling chapter of Mulder and Scully they've been waiting for."

Duchovny and Anderson expressed being open for a third X-Files film in 2013, but formal talks didn't begin until this past January.  Duchovny later commented on the possibility, telling USA Today he expected X-Files would return and that he was "more than happy and excited to bring it back and do it again with Gillian and Chris. ... It will be in some kind of limited form.  We're all old, we don't have the energy for a full season," he remarked with a laugh.