The X Files Movie Press Conference @The Sutton Place Hotel on Burrard... March 12th 2008 08:50pm | Posted by: Michael Stevens, HNR Senior Editor Producers of the BC-filmed X Files Movie held a press conference today @ The Sutton Place Hotel on Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver. After three months of filming in BC under the working title Done One, X-Files creator/director Chris Carter explained all the secrecy. "We've had lots of paparazzi," he said. The movie is a stand-alone feature unconnected to the 'conspiracy thread' of the popular Emmy Award-winning TV series. "We're not doing an exercise in nostalgia to appeal to the fans of the show," said co-writer, producer Frank Spotnitz. "We saw this as an opportunity to re-introduce the characters..." The Night Stalker-inspired genre TV series, filmed in Vancouver for 5 years, debuting in 1993 as a big ratings hit for the Fox network and making iconic stars out of actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. "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," said actor/producer Duchovny. The show moved production to Los Angeles after the fifth season and stayed for four more years. A 1998 feature film spin-off was also shot in Los Angeles, but not directed by series creator Carter. Carter directed the new feature, and still has a home in Vancouver. Duchovny has since appeared in two additional features shot in BC. Premise of the new film picks up with the main characters in real time, six years after events of the TV series. "This is a great, flawed, questing hero," Duchovny said about his character 'Mulder'. "There's always more stories for that person to be involved in..." Source: SneakPeek.Ca In: Features |Visit the HNR Forums

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