Recent changes Random page
GAMING
Entertainment
 
Star Wars
Star Trek
Transformers
 Muppet Wiki
Digimon Wiki
Marvel Database
See more...

The X-Files Movie

From X-Files Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search
The X-Files Movie poster
Series: The X-Files
Release Date: June 19, 1998
Year: 35,000 B.C.; "Present Day"
Runtime: 121 minutes
Budget: $66,000,000
Written by: Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz
Produced by: Chris Carter & Daniel Sackheim
Directed by: Rob Bowman
A boy called Stevie is possessed by a strange, black substance

"Fight The Future"

Mulder and Scully uncover a government conspiracy attempting to hide the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.

Contents

[edit] Summary

NORTH TEXAS
35,000 B.C.

As the wind howls around them, two cavemen follow a set of strange tracks across a vast snowy plain. Entering a cave, they are attacked by the alien that left the tracks. Although one of the men is killed, the other manages to injure the creature. However, a thick, black substance pours out of the alien as it lies dormant on a rock. The remaining man touches the substance with a primitive torch made from wood and soon discovers that he is covered in it. As the substance begins to move over him, he grunts and roars in intense agony.

NORTH TEXAS
PRESENT DAY

Thousands of years later, a boy called Stevie falls into a large pit in the ground. Three of his friends gather round the top of the pit, gazing down at Stevie with concern. He soon finds many human bones, including a human skull with a hole at the back, and becomes infected with the same black substance that killed the prehistoric cavemen. In an attempt to find help, Stevie's friends run from the top of the pit to a nearby residential area in Blackwood County.

Two firemen search for Stevie.
Two firemen search for Stevie.

Later that day, two fire engines from the County Fire Department arrive at the scene. Fire Captain Miles Cooles exits one of the vehicles and runs towards the cave. He sends two fire fighters, Danny and T.C., into the pit. Using his radio, Cooles reports the location of the rescue situation to officers in Dallas. When he tries to contact T.C., no one responds. Consequently, he advises Danny to check T.C.'s radio before ordering two other officers, Glenn and Sal, to enter the cave.

Later, a helicopter from Dallas arrives at the scene and HAZMAT suited men in white exit the aircraft, carrying a bubble litter. A doctor named Ben Bronschweig also exits the craft and clears the area of several curious civilians, clustered nearby. Cooles informs Doctor Bronschweig of the situation as they walk towards the cave. They watch as the HAZMAT team carry Stevie to the helicopter inside the bubble litter. Bronschweig seems extremely concerned as the boy's paralyzed body passes him. However, Cooles' only concern is for his officers in the pit. As the helicopter takes flight with Stevie aboard, a fleet of unmarked, white Freightliner trucks arrive and surround the fire engines. Cooles is puzzled as Bronschweig walks away. Near one of the trucks, the doctor phones his employer and tells him that an impossible scenario that they have never planned for is imminent.

FEDERAL BUILDING
DALLAS, TEXAS
ONE WEEK LATER

Helicopter N87WC swoops through the air and lands on the roof of the Federal Building, where many FBI agents are positioned. Special Agent in Charge Darius Michaud exits the aircraft and walks towards another FBI agent. The man tells Michaud that the Federal Building has been evacuated and searched. However, the FBI agents have found no trace of an explosive device. Although the agents have sent dogs to search through the building, Michaud tells the man to send the dogs again and walks away. Reluctantly, the wearisome FBI agent tells the other officers to begin again. Michaud walks to the edge of the roof and watches another FBI agent on top of an adjacent building.

COUNTY OF SOMERSET, ENGLAND

When spending time with his family in England, the Well-Manicured Man is called to a meeting of the Syndicate in London. Upon arrival, all of the other members are present, and he has to give his apoloies for being late, owing to his grandson breaking his leg.

[edit] Background Information

  • This was only the second 20th Century Fox Television-produced series to transfer to the big screen; the first was Batman in 1966.
  • A working title of this movie was X-Files: Blackwood.
  • A commonly used tagline of this movie was Fight the Future. However, this line was often written close to the movie's title, leading some people to believe that the tagline was a part of the movie's title.
  • The movie was filmed in the hiatus between Seasons 4 and 5 of The X-Files, and reshoots were done during the filming of Season 5, which meant that some episodes of that season do not revolve around Mulder and/or Scully, because either David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson or both actors were unavailable. Examples of these episodes include "Unusual Suspects" (in which Scully does not appear), "Christmas Carol" (featuring a single scene with Mulder), "Chinga" (which focuses primarily on Scully), and "Travelers" (in which Scully does not appear).
  • The movie plays an integral role in the ongoing storylines of the television series The X-Files, set between Seasons 5 and 6 of the series, but it is also a stand-alone film. Similarly, it can be understood by both fans, and viewers who have never seen The X-Files before. For example, the black alien virus is intended to be the black oil from the television series, but this fact is only implied by the appearance of the black substance and the connection is never outrightly stated. Due to its accessible nature, the movie was responsible for introducing the show to a new group of fans.
  • In one scene, Mulder urinates on a wall that displays a poster for the 1996 20th Century Fox co-produced film Independence Day. Apparently, writer and producer Chris Carter deliberately added the reference as he hated the film. Like The X-Files Movie, however, Independence Day also involved extraterrestrials and UFOs on Earth. It referenced The X-Files in a scene near the start of the movie in which a SETI employee talking during a phone call says, "I love The X-Files, too. I hope you get to see it." The line was not in the script used to film Independence Day and was presumably only added while filming the movie.
  • According to several different May 1998 newspaper articles on the rising costs of film production, 20th Century Fox spent around 60 million dollars promoting the film worldwide[1], and the production budget, originally said to be 60 million dollars as well, was eventually revealed to have been closer to 66 million. With a minimum expenditure of 126 million dollars for production/promotion, the movie had a worldwide gross of slightly over 189 million, of which the studio would have received around about 55%.

[edit] Cast

[edit] References

1998; Blackwood County; Blackwood County Rural/Metro Fire Department; Dallas; Danny; Distant past; Glenn; Sal; T.C.; Texas

[edit] External Links


Previous episode:
"The End"
The X-Files 		Next episode:
"The Beginning"
Previous movie:
None 		Next movie:
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Retrieved from "http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/The_X-Files_Movie"
Rate this article:
Share this article: