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WONDERCon 2008--Part 3
(Spoilers & Minor Spoilers throughout)
Backstage Interviews from IESB, with GA, CC and FS
(cameo by DD in Gilly's interview--
-----SPOILERS in these Videos!!)
Gillian Video Interview: (Cameo by DD)
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=227&task=videodirectlink&id=737
Chris Carter Interview:
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=227&task=videodirectlink&id=738
Frank Spotnitz Interview:
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=227&task=videodirectlink&id=739
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Transcript of the above Gilly interview by Agent Extremis:
(SPOILERS in this!!)
Gillian's is Interviewed by IESB Guy:
IESB: "Nice to meet you"
Gilly replies happily: "Nice to meet you too..." then she points away from him and laughs and says" You're wandering down the line..."
IESB: "We're all over the place...umm, so when you're doing a film like this, how hard is it to get back into character??"
Gilly: "Ummmm....I mean this is the first time that I ahhh..had this eXperience and it was a bit ahhh... harder than I had anticipated...ummmm.... I expected that getting back into Scully was just gonna be....you know...like flipping on a lightswitch and it was actually...ah... took a lot more effort on my behalf" (then she chuckles) "...so... but I think we got there in the end ."
IESB: "Now the series ended in kinda a complicated place..is the movie picking right up from there?? Are you still a mother??"
Gilly: "ummmmmm.....the movie is picking up from...ummm, the time that has passed since the end of the series...so it's real time, so we're..whatever it is...5 or so years beyond the end of the series so that's
where we are. And ummmmm...I can't answer that question" (she says the last part with smile and a laugh)
IESB: "Ummm, we've seen photos on the internet of a Werewolf.."
Gilly interjects: "Oh have you....."
IESB: "..any comment on that?"
Gilly says with a smile: "No....I've got no comment on that... ummmm...what-do-ya-mean there's....Hey David??..Did you know that there's something on..online about a Werewolf??"
David walks into the picture behind her, she smiles and looks at him.
David answers: "A what??"
Gilly: "A Werewolf" (she says it a bit mischievously)
David with a fake shock: "Uh!" and then something like "where's Chris.. or There's/Get Chris"
Gilly: "Ummmm....."
David jokes: "It's all screwed up now."
Gilly laughs as she looks at David and then she says: "Ummmm".
Then David feigns more shock and says quietly: "Sh*t!" as he smiles back at Gilly, then she laughs again and says: "ummmm.....no, I can't talk about that either."
(David is walking back and forth behind her, then looks like he says: "'No" and then says something jokingly in her ear--like he's saying "A WereWolf" in a goofy way like "A WoofWoof" LOL! ....then he goes to leave)
An official looking lady from WonderCon (??) then interjects and says to the IESB guy: "We're done, thank you for coming to WonderCon."
IESB: "Ok, thank you very much"
(Then the WonderCon lady manuevers DD and Gilly over a bit and says to them: "Ok, one photo for ComicCon" )
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Transcript of Frank Spotnitz's Interview by Mighty Dana:
(SPOILERS in this!!)
GUY: Nice to meet u..
FS: Nice to meet u..
GUY: So..this film as of yet untitled…last one called Fight The Future…is there going to be a title for this one?
FS: yes…we actually have a title…we haven’t given the go ahead to release it…
GUY: You can tell us…..
FS: I wish I could *laughs*…shortly I think…
GUY: We’ve been seeing pictures on the internet of a werewolf…there is even rumours that that’s to mislead people completely…
FS: Well, I’m sort of delighted by what I see is going on on the internet…cause there’s shreds of truth and shreds mistruth..and a lot of speculation and you really don’t know what to believe…which suit us just fine, cause we like to reserve the element of surprise and people go and enjoy the movie and not watch by ticking of all the rumours they heard on the internet…so if you are a fan of the show and you are checking out the rumours on the internet I say don’t believe anything because there is much of misinformation as there is good information…
GUY: Is this a beginning of a series of films for the X-Files?
FS: I would like to think it is…it’s a great idea for a movie…I always felt that..early early on the show I felt that…it’s a natural, cause the show itself is a mini-movie every week and it’s gonna depend how this movie does…honestly….and whether the audience is there for it….
GUY: The series ended kind of on a strange place…for fans, sorta casual fans..how the movie is going to deal with the continuity…or is it just going to go back to Mulder and Scully and the FBI?
FS: I think the movie is very true to the continuity of the series…it’s not an alien conspiracy movie…it’s more stand-alone, scary story…(something that I don’t get what FS says…).it’s a luxury of this movie that it can be about the characters…in a way that the series couldn’t..we had so much we had to do…we had 24 hours of television every year..we couldn’t dwell into to their personal lives has much as we have been able with this film…
GUY: Thank you very much for talking to us…
FS: Thank you….
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A bunch more WonderCon Vids from rhoboat77 8-)
1.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LdG4UkEFB8s
2.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fDvc-kHlt5c
3.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VSSagZ8Cgis
4.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rcXYprbKWSM
5.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xPc1YE-Ih-M
6.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=36lN3A1RdS0
7.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=F7PHsUbw9cc
8.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6scjX6agsq8
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A couple more Vids from StaticSplitScreen 8-)
1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIDQX_ekAw4
2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmpauDYi_z4
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WonderCon Video from livingjuliet aka venusflesh, she got to ask the question herself 8-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg6RQtP3Oxs
And lotsa cool pix from venusflesh too 8-)
http://pics.livejournal.com/venusflesh/gallery/00016dqe
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Comment from Moriarty of aintitcoolnews about new XF2 trailer :-)
"My first reaction? Looks like a lot of fun.
My second reaction? I’m honestly more thrilled by the sight of Mulder
and Scully together again than I was by the sight of Indy back in action.
Wouldn’t have guessed that before seeing these trailers.
My third reaction? I love the audience at WonderCon screaming.
Fox should leave this version online... that’s what really sells this trailer."
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35725
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Lots more Photos Here:
(credit to katedating, maru, vicki luy, etc....)
Page One:
http://www.beyondthesea.it/news.asp?id=462
Page Two:
http://www.beyondthesea.it/news.asp?id=470
Page Three:
http://www.beyondthesea.it/news.asp?id=477
Part Four:
http://www.beyondthesea.it/news.asp?id=481
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From Quint at aintitcoolnews, Feb 24th/2008
WonderCon: Mulder and Scully show up! Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, too!
And they bring news and footage from X-Files 2!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. So, technically this was the 20th Century Fox panel, but it might has well have been called the Fox and Scully hour. That’s what people wanted to see.
Poor Thai horror remake SHUTTER, all about spirit photography, was stuck before the big X-FILES 2 panel and even the hot Aussie from TRANSFORMERS and Hiro’s sidekick could make much of a difference. You could feel the audience just politely waiting for that panel to end so the X-FILES panel would start.
This was the first time in the entire run of the convention where the hall seemed to fill up. There were hundreds of people standing on the sides of the hall and an electric buzz going up and down the room as the SHUTTER people left and the few minutes break in-between the two started up.
Then… the trailer.
In a throwback to Howard Hawks’ THE THING (my assumption) a group of FBI agents walk, in a line, on snowy ice. One calls out, “Hold the line, gentlemen! Look left, look right! Hold the line!”
Out in front is a white-haired Billy Connolly muttering to himself, looking very concerned. “It’s here…”
We see dark shoes pushing through the snow and a pan up shows us our first look at Fox Mulder in almost a decade. He looks the same.
A woman (I think it might be Scully, but I didn’t get a clear look at her… she had on one of those fuzzy policewoman’s hats) yells out to the group, “Give him room!”
Connolly slows and then cries out, “It’s here!!!” and the trailer cuts to a woman being dragged across ice at night. Cut to Gillian Anderson turns into frame, red hair flying (getting a loud cheer from the audience). There are helicopters hovering above the ice patch, watching the people below as Connolly races forward to a certain spot.
All this is intercut with sequences from throughout the movie… autopsy scenes (wouldn’t be X-Files without it, right?), Mulder driving and getting hit on his side of the car, Mulder running, Billy Connolly seeming to convulse, blood coming from his eyes, more running, a pissed off looking bald guy with fresh scratch marks on his face and then the FBI on the ice clearing away a clear spot, all looking down. Then it fades out and JULY 25TH, 2008 fades in.
The people went batshit for it, thousands cheering at once.
I liked the trailer a lot, but I think what I liked about it might turn some other people off. It looked like a classic episode of the series, not entirely filmic, but definitely like I was seeing a preview for next week’s episode of X-FILES.
I also have the same problem with the trailer that I do with the INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL trailer. There’s an iconic nature to Mulder and Scully… the trenchcoats, Scully’s red hair and short figure opposite Mulder’s tall lanky figure… I don’t think either trailer took advantage of the iconic nature of these characters. But that’s a nitpick. The actual footage got me juiced up, so in the end that’s all that matters.
The panel. I got some decent pics of the panel. We had writer Frank Spotnitz, Chris Carter, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Let’s hit some tidbits!
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2007/WCmulderscully1.jpg
- It’s been 10 years… why will the movie be worth the wait? “Because it’ll scare the pants off you,” says Carter. “Because you’ll get to see Mulder and Scully again in a whole new way.” The whole place cheers again. “That’s why.”
- More X-FILES movies? Chris Carter: “Right away.”
- Gillian had a bad first couple of days at the beginning of the movie. She thought it was going to be easy to step back into the role, but she said she just sucked for the first 48 hours. She said it was only two scenes and she hopes that it’ll all kind of dissolve into the rest of the movie. Duchovny added, “Maybe you should tell them which scenes you sucked in.” Throughout the whole panel their back and forth was pure Mulder and Scully… he was light-hearted and there was a kind of flirt to it. It was pretty sweet.
- Getting back to it. Gillian had trouble (she had trained herself not to act like Scully in other performances for nearly 10 years and so her brain resisted going back) and so did Duchovny (he said the instinct for any actor is to improvise and roll with a character, but you can’t do that so much with one with such a huge back history already). What about Carter? Surprisingly easy. “Writing the names Mulder and Scully, which I hadn’t written for 6 years, was the most natural keyboard stroke you could imagine.”
- Mark Snow WILL score the film.
- What about the pre-9/11 Lone Gunmen episode about the plane flying into the WTC? Carter: “I’m not going to touch that one.” And hand it off to Frank. “We were just looking for the most awful crime we could imagine.” He also said that he was stricken when it happened, thinking some crackpot had taken inspiration from the show, but was let off the hook when it was revealed that the 9/11 plan had existed long before the show aired.
- Chris Carter: “I always saw THE X-FILES as a search for God.” No particular religion, but Mulder’s poster “I Want To Believe” says it all .
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2007/WCBrightCarter.jpg
- They’re still shooting the film… in fact, they flew from shooting all night and stayed awake to come talk to the group.
- Duchovny puts a lot of emotional weight into the Mulder/Scully scenes because he views them as the heart of the movie.
- Amanda Peet plays an FBI special agent named Dakota Whitney and Billy Connolly “plays a man with very long hair.” – Chris Carter
- What subject would you like to have explored in the series. Gillian: “ I always thought that Mulder should… I don’t think we ever did this… but auto-erotic asphyxiation.” “That was the way I was going to die, that was the way Mulder was going to die… Chris?”
- Why not continue the story arc? “When we did the first movie we had an ongoing TV series, so we had to be true to the series and the mythology arc. So, that movie functioned as sort of a big version of the television series. We didn’t have that problem this time. So, we have a chance to do what I would consider to be a really big screen stand-alone movie.”
- Gillian’s favorite episode is BAD BLOOD, which was brought up many times by Duchovny. “She loves Bad Blood… every day it’s ‘Bad Blood-Bad Blood- Bad Blood!’”
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2007/WCmulderscully3.jpg
- The sequel was made because Gillian and David wanted to make it. Fox came to Chris and said, “Let’s do a movie.” Then a lawsuit stopped that and then sometime later the studio called up Carter again and said, “It’s either now or never.” He asked the actors and they said, “Let’s do it now.”
- An audience member brings up the end of the show bringing up the date 2012 and if that will carry over into the movie. Gillian laughed and said, “That’s still 4 years away!” Carter was quiet, then said “We’ve talked about it and we want to be true to the series and the mythology, but we wanted to make sure we made the best movies we can and do what feels right, like we’ve always done. Having said that, that 2012 date is looming in our minds.” Cryptic…
http://www.aintitcool.com/images2007/WCmulderscully2.jpg
- Then a dude dressed up as Link asked an awkward question. “What do you like to believe?” Chris Carter asks the guy, “Can I ask you a question? Are you from Sherwood Forrest?” Link laughs and Duchovny said, “I believe in that.” Tons of laughs… but it gets better. He asks, “Who are you dressed as?” “Link.” Cheers and laughs from the audience. Duchovny looks at the dude for a full 5 seconds or so then goes, “Who?” At this point Gillian breaks in and goes, “Is this a fetish?” Laughs and a mumbled something about the internet from Link. Then an awkward silent pause and Gillian asks David, “What do you believe in?” And David says, “I thought we had circumvented that…”
- Will Krycek return? Audience member, “I know he’s lost arms… but is he really dead or will he be back?” Duchovny interjects, “He’s got that tea bag dipping hand…” then imitates it for a long time. “I can go all day!” Carter: “We are keeping a secret and I think you’ll all appreciate we are… about who all is going to appear in the movie, besides David and Gillian, of course… So, I’ll just say to you… nobody’s really ever dead in The X-Files.”
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I can’t tell you guys how big the audience was for this. I think you’re going to see all these closeted X-Philes come out and freak everybody out come July. The panel was great, everybody was laid back and funny. They left saying that they feel vindicated with the huge audience and reception. They believed the fans were still out there, now they know they are.
Can’t wait to see Mulder and Scully again!
-Quint
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35726
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>From Weekly Comic Book Review,
Pix:
http://wcbr.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/wondercon_day2_18.jpg
http://wcbr.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/wondercon_day2_09.jpg
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http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/wondercon-2008/
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WONDERCON: "X-FILES" PANEL
--From ComicBookResources
Posted: February 24, 2008
WonderCon was a buzz Saturday with the star power in attendance at many of its various panels and presentations. "X-Files" fans in particular were treated to a truly unique presentation by 20th Century Fox of the second X-Files movie. Director Chris Carter, Writer Frank Spotnitz and leads Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny all flew in from the still in production set in Vancouver to give fans a look at the upcoming feature film. The packed convention hall was full of rabid hooting and hollering X-Files fans all overjoyed to be in the house for this special Q&A. Before the cast was brought in, Fox treated fans to the first teaser trailer.
The scene is a snow covered field in the middle of nowhere with hundreds of FBI agents with sticks walking and poking into the ground. Rapper turned actor Xibit playing an FBI Agent calls out to the agents telling them to keep the line tight. A white haired man wildly walks in front of the agents looking for something. He keeps saying “It's here. I know it.” The scene changes to images of bleeding eyed men and suspenseful looks at various people and agents scrambling. Then the snow covered field is shown again and we see Fox Mulder and Dana Scully behind the white haired man and they find something or someone encased in snow. More shots of random images are shown and then it cuts to "Coming July 25th 2008."
The crowd cheers wildly as the Director/Writer and cast are all introduced. Anderson and Duchovny were both overwhelmed by how enthusiastic the crowd was to be in their presence. With so many lined up for the Q&A, they opened up the mic immediately to field questions.
The moderator asked -- since it had been six years since the show ended and 10 since the first movie came out -- why this film would be worth the wait. Smiling coyly, Carter answered “It will scare the pants off you.” Carter stated that you will get to see Mulder and Scully again in a whole new way in this film.
The first fan thanked the cast and told them she had been watching "X-Files" since she was 10 and asked if there are any plans for more movies. Carter sarcastically told the fan “right away.”
The next fan asked if it was easy to go right back into their roles. Anderson said that she had a rough start and a bad 48 hours trying to be Scully again. Duchovny told Anderson to tell the fans which scenes sucked. The crowd roared with laughter. Duchovny went on to explain how nice it was to come back, working with all these people again.
Duchovny was then asked if he would be writing or directing anything in the near future. He said he loved directing and writing and if anyone was stupid enough to give him the money, he is all for it.
Anderson was asked if she had to think her way back into the roll or if it was automatic. Anderson said that it was two different things, intuitively it was something she tried to do again, but her brain would automatically tell her to stop trying to play Scully and just be Scully again. Duchovny added “I just say the words.”
The moderator asked Carter and Spotnitz how hard it was to put pen to paper and write these characters again. Spotnitz said he was surprised how he reconnected wit the characters and felt it was missing people he found again and it was a nice surprise. Carter added it was like no time had passed at all. He asked the crowd if they liked the trailer to which the crowd roared with approval. “Just wanted to make sure,” Carter joked.
A fan asked if Mark Snow was going to score the film and how Carter felt about the first episode of the spin-off show "The Lone Gunman" with the airliner and twin towers that eerily foreshadowed the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. Carter said he wasn’t going to touch that one and asked Spotnitz to help answer since he had more to do with that series. Spotnitz said that Mark Snow would score the film. Then he said when he woke up on 9/11 and saw what had happened, he asked himself if his episode maybe inspired the events. He was relieved to find out the plot existed long before his writing and he also didn’t understand if it could be thought up, why our government could foresee it and why they were not prepared. Frank added it’s been the subject of many online conspiracy websites.
The next fan asked about the significance of the religious undertones in the "X-Files" TV series. Carter explained how he always felt the "X-Files" was like a search for the existence of God. “It was a big part of the inspiration, but no one religion was the focus.” He stated that he always felt that Fox Mulder’s poster in his office said it best -- "The Truth Is Out There."
Another fan asked what was the most difficult scene to film in the movie? Anderson answered the movie is not done filming. David added he thought the Scully/Mulder scenes were hard because he tried to put so much weight into them emotionally. Anderson seconded that and added "My first 48 hours."
The next question was about Elizabeth Rosner's "Speed of Light," a book Anderson has optioned and is planning to direct. Anderson told the fan it’s a work in progress and it will get there, she promised.
The moderator then asked Carter about the other actors in the upcoming film, who else aside from Xibit would be in the cast and what brought them to the X-Files? Carter told him that Amanda Peet would be playing an FBI Agent named Dakota Whitney and Billy Connely would be playing a man with very long hair.
The cast was then asked, since the X-Files uses many classic sci-fi/horror trappings like vampires or Prometheus, if there were any personal narratives in the film and if there was something that they might want to try out in this film that was not done on the show. Duchovny said this film seemed to be a bit of Dorian Grey then looked at Chris Carter and added “No, not that way.” Anderson said she thought Mulder should try auto erotic asphyxiation it might be a good thing for Mulder. Carter said he had a list of ideas of things he wanted to do and he felt the show ended at the right time. He feels the country had a shift after 9/11 and now the appetite is right for the movie.
A fan asked if the film would be a self contained “Monster of the Week” or if it would have some of the mythology. Carter said it might have elements of that, but he just wanted to make a great film that would stand the test and just be a great movie.
The next fan told Anderson her favorite episode was one directed by the actress, to which Anderson responded that she was so thrilled and loved directing it and enjoyed it tremendously and she wanted to do it again.
Duchovny and Anderson were asked their favorite episodes and Anderson mentioned "Bad Blood," which found the agents telling their side of the story separately concerning the shooting of a man who was thought to be a vampire. Anderson felt it was an episode that was shot at such a great time that she really loved the premise. Duchovny added "Bad Blood" is the episode Anderson won’t ever stop talking about.
When asked how the new film came about, Carter said it was because Anderson and Duchovny were really interested in coming back to the X-Files. Fox then came back to the group and said it’s now or never.
A fan asked what the new film has to offer in FBI tactics and technology, since other shows like "CSI" use a lot of those elements in their storytelling. David explained how the story telling in the X-Files was more sophisticated because the story telling was about the battle of Scully’s point of view and Mulder's point of view. Duchovny feels you watch "The X-Files" for the drama of solving the case with intellect, not bullets going through pieces of meat.
A fan asked if the character Krycek would be in the film. Carter didn’t want to give away any secrets, but assured the fans no one in the X-Files stays dead.
Finally one cheeky fan asked Anderson and Duchovny what it was like to work with one of the greatest actors of all time -- Homer Simpson. Duchonvy laughed and said they voiced "The Simpsons" episode apart from the cast and then two years later it was aired. “Homer gave me nothing,” joked Duchovny.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=13117
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(Spoilers & Minor Spoilers throughout)
Backstage Interviews from IESB, with GA, CC and FS
(cameo by DD in Gilly's interview--
-----SPOILERS in these Videos!!)
Gillian Video Interview: (Cameo by DD)
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=227&task=videodirectlink&id=737
Chris Carter Interview:
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=227&task=videodirectlink&id=738
Frank Spotnitz Interview:
http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=227&task=videodirectlink&id=739
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Transcript of the above Gilly interview by Agent Extremis:
(SPOILERS in this!!)
Gillian's is Interviewed by IESB Guy:
IESB: "Nice to meet you"
Gilly replies happily: "Nice to meet you too..." then she points away from him and laughs and says" You're wandering down the line..."
IESB: "We're all over the place...umm, so when you're doing a film like this, how hard is it to get back into character??"
Gilly: "Ummmm....I mean this is the first time that I ahhh..had this eXperience and it was a bit ahhh... harder than I had anticipated...ummmm.... I expected that getting back into Scully was just gonna be....you know...like flipping on a lightswitch and it was actually...ah... took a lot more effort on my behalf" (then she chuckles) "...so... but I think we got there in the end ."
IESB: "Now the series ended in kinda a complicated place..is the movie picking right up from there?? Are you still a mother??"
Gilly: "ummmmmm.....the movie is picking up from...ummm, the time that has passed since the end of the series...so it's real time, so we're..whatever it is...5 or so years beyond the end of the series so that's
where we are. And ummmmm...I can't answer that question" (she says the last part with smile and a laugh)
IESB: "Ummm, we've seen photos on the internet of a Werewolf.."
Gilly interjects: "Oh have you....."
IESB: "..any comment on that?"
Gilly says with a smile: "No....I've got no comment on that... ummmm...what-do-ya-mean there's....Hey David??..Did you know that there's something on..online about a Werewolf??"
David walks into the picture behind her, she smiles and looks at him.
David answers: "A what??"
Gilly: "A Werewolf" (she says it a bit mischievously)
David with a fake shock: "Uh!" and then something like "where's Chris.. or There's/Get Chris"
Gilly: "Ummmm....."
David jokes: "It's all screwed up now."
Gilly laughs as she looks at David and then she says: "Ummmm".
Then David feigns more shock and says quietly: "Sh*t!" as he smiles back at Gilly, then she laughs again and says: "ummmm.....no, I can't talk about that either."
(David is walking back and forth behind her, then looks like he says: "'No" and then says something jokingly in her ear--like he's saying "A WereWolf" in a goofy way like "A WoofWoof" LOL! ....then he goes to leave)
An official looking lady from WonderCon (??) then interjects and says to the IESB guy: "We're done, thank you for coming to WonderCon."
IESB: "Ok, thank you very much"
(Then the WonderCon lady manuevers DD and Gilly over a bit and says to them: "Ok, one photo for ComicCon" )
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Transcript of Frank Spotnitz's Interview by Mighty Dana:
(SPOILERS in this!!)
GUY: Nice to meet u..
FS: Nice to meet u..
GUY: So..this film as of yet untitled…last one called Fight The Future…is there going to be a title for this one?
FS: yes…we actually have a title…we haven’t given the go ahead to release it…
GUY: You can tell us…..
FS: I wish I could *laughs*…shortly I think…
GUY: We’ve been seeing pictures on the internet of a werewolf…there is even rumours that that’s to mislead people completely…
FS: Well, I’m sort of delighted by what I see is going on on the internet…cause there’s shreds of truth and shreds mistruth..and a lot of speculation and you really don’t know what to believe…which suit us just fine, cause we like to reserve the element of surprise and people go and enjoy the movie and not watch by ticking of all the rumours they heard on the internet…so if you are a fan of the show and you are checking out the rumours on the internet I say don’t believe anything because there is much of misinformation as there is good information…
GUY: Is this a beginning of a series of films for the X-Files?
FS: I would like to think it is…it’s a great idea for a movie…I always felt that..early early on the show I felt that…it’s a natural, cause the show itself is a mini-movie every week and it’s gonna depend how this movie does…honestly….and whether the audience is there for it….
GUY: The series ended kind of on a strange place…for fans, sorta casual fans..how the movie is going to deal with the continuity…or is it just going to go back to Mulder and Scully and the FBI?
FS: I think the movie is very true to the continuity of the series…it’s not an alien conspiracy movie…it’s more stand-alone, scary story…(something that I don’t get what FS says…).it’s a luxury of this movie that it can be about the characters…in a way that the series couldn’t..we had so much we had to do…we had 24 hours of television every year..we couldn’t dwell into to their personal lives has much as we have been able with this film…
GUY: Thank you very much for talking to us…
FS: Thank you….
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A bunch more WonderCon Vids from rhoboat77 8-)
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=LdG4UkEFB8s
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=fDvc-kHlt5c
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=VSSagZ8Cgis
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=rcXYprbKWSM
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=36lN3A1RdS0
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=F7PHsUbw9cc
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=6scjX6agsq8
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A couple more Vids from StaticSplitScreen 8-)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIDQX_ekAw4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmpauDYi_z4
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WonderCon Video from livingjuliet aka venusflesh, she got to ask the question herself 8-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg6RQtP3Oxs
And lotsa cool pix from venusflesh too 8-)
http://pics.livejournal.com/venusflesh/gallery/00016dqe
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Comment from Moriarty of aintitcoolnews about new XF2 trailer :-)
"My first reaction? Looks like a lot of fun.
My second reaction? I’m honestly more thrilled by the sight of Mulder
and Scully together again than I was by the sight of Indy back in action.
Wouldn’t have guessed that before seeing these trailers.
My third reaction? I love the audience at WonderCon screaming.
Fox should leave this version online... that’s what really sells this trailer."
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35725
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Lots more Photos Here:
(credit to katedating, maru, vicki luy, etc....)
Page One:
http://www.beyondthesea.it/news.asp?id=462
Page Two:
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Page Three:
http://www.beyondthesea.it/news.asp?id=477
Part Four:
http://www.beyondthesea.it/news.asp?id=481
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From Quint at aintitcoolnews, Feb 24th/2008
WonderCon: Mulder and Scully show up! Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, too!
And they bring news and footage from X-Files 2!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. So, technically this was the 20th Century Fox panel, but it might has well have been called the Fox and Scully hour. That’s what people wanted to see.
Poor Thai horror remake SHUTTER, all about spirit photography, was stuck before the big X-FILES 2 panel and even the hot Aussie from TRANSFORMERS and Hiro’s sidekick could make much of a difference. You could feel the audience just politely waiting for that panel to end so the X-FILES panel would start.
This was the first time in the entire run of the convention where the hall seemed to fill up. There were hundreds of people standing on the sides of the hall and an electric buzz going up and down the room as the SHUTTER people left and the few minutes break in-between the two started up.
Then… the trailer.
In a throwback to Howard Hawks’ THE THING (my assumption) a group of FBI agents walk, in a line, on snowy ice. One calls out, “Hold the line, gentlemen! Look left, look right! Hold the line!”
Out in front is a white-haired Billy Connolly muttering to himself, looking very concerned. “It’s here…”
We see dark shoes pushing through the snow and a pan up shows us our first look at Fox Mulder in almost a decade. He looks the same.
A woman (I think it might be Scully, but I didn’t get a clear look at her… she had on one of those fuzzy policewoman’s hats) yells out to the group, “Give him room!”
Connolly slows and then cries out, “It’s here!!!” and the trailer cuts to a woman being dragged across ice at night. Cut to Gillian Anderson turns into frame, red hair flying (getting a loud cheer from the audience). There are helicopters hovering above the ice patch, watching the people below as Connolly races forward to a certain spot.
All this is intercut with sequences from throughout the movie… autopsy scenes (wouldn’t be X-Files without it, right?), Mulder driving and getting hit on his side of the car, Mulder running, Billy Connolly seeming to convulse, blood coming from his eyes, more running, a pissed off looking bald guy with fresh scratch marks on his face and then the FBI on the ice clearing away a clear spot, all looking down. Then it fades out and JULY 25TH, 2008 fades in.
The people went batshit for it, thousands cheering at once.
I liked the trailer a lot, but I think what I liked about it might turn some other people off. It looked like a classic episode of the series, not entirely filmic, but definitely like I was seeing a preview for next week’s episode of X-FILES.
I also have the same problem with the trailer that I do with the INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL trailer. There’s an iconic nature to Mulder and Scully… the trenchcoats, Scully’s red hair and short figure opposite Mulder’s tall lanky figure… I don’t think either trailer took advantage of the iconic nature of these characters. But that’s a nitpick. The actual footage got me juiced up, so in the end that’s all that matters.
The panel. I got some decent pics of the panel. We had writer Frank Spotnitz, Chris Carter, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Let’s hit some tidbits!
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- It’s been 10 years… why will the movie be worth the wait? “Because it’ll scare the pants off you,” says Carter. “Because you’ll get to see Mulder and Scully again in a whole new way.” The whole place cheers again. “That’s why.”
- More X-FILES movies? Chris Carter: “Right away.”
- Gillian had a bad first couple of days at the beginning of the movie. She thought it was going to be easy to step back into the role, but she said she just sucked for the first 48 hours. She said it was only two scenes and she hopes that it’ll all kind of dissolve into the rest of the movie. Duchovny added, “Maybe you should tell them which scenes you sucked in.” Throughout the whole panel their back and forth was pure Mulder and Scully… he was light-hearted and there was a kind of flirt to it. It was pretty sweet.
- Getting back to it. Gillian had trouble (she had trained herself not to act like Scully in other performances for nearly 10 years and so her brain resisted going back) and so did Duchovny (he said the instinct for any actor is to improvise and roll with a character, but you can’t do that so much with one with such a huge back history already). What about Carter? Surprisingly easy. “Writing the names Mulder and Scully, which I hadn’t written for 6 years, was the most natural keyboard stroke you could imagine.”
- Mark Snow WILL score the film.
- What about the pre-9/11 Lone Gunmen episode about the plane flying into the WTC? Carter: “I’m not going to touch that one.” And hand it off to Frank. “We were just looking for the most awful crime we could imagine.” He also said that he was stricken when it happened, thinking some crackpot had taken inspiration from the show, but was let off the hook when it was revealed that the 9/11 plan had existed long before the show aired.
- Chris Carter: “I always saw THE X-FILES as a search for God.” No particular religion, but Mulder’s poster “I Want To Believe” says it all .
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- They’re still shooting the film… in fact, they flew from shooting all night and stayed awake to come talk to the group.
- Duchovny puts a lot of emotional weight into the Mulder/Scully scenes because he views them as the heart of the movie.
- Amanda Peet plays an FBI special agent named Dakota Whitney and Billy Connolly “plays a man with very long hair.” – Chris Carter
- What subject would you like to have explored in the series. Gillian: “ I always thought that Mulder should… I don’t think we ever did this… but auto-erotic asphyxiation.” “That was the way I was going to die, that was the way Mulder was going to die… Chris?”
- Why not continue the story arc? “When we did the first movie we had an ongoing TV series, so we had to be true to the series and the mythology arc. So, that movie functioned as sort of a big version of the television series. We didn’t have that problem this time. So, we have a chance to do what I would consider to be a really big screen stand-alone movie.”
- Gillian’s favorite episode is BAD BLOOD, which was brought up many times by Duchovny. “She loves Bad Blood… every day it’s ‘Bad Blood-Bad Blood- Bad Blood!’”
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- The sequel was made because Gillian and David wanted to make it. Fox came to Chris and said, “Let’s do a movie.” Then a lawsuit stopped that and then sometime later the studio called up Carter again and said, “It’s either now or never.” He asked the actors and they said, “Let’s do it now.”
- An audience member brings up the end of the show bringing up the date 2012 and if that will carry over into the movie. Gillian laughed and said, “That’s still 4 years away!” Carter was quiet, then said “We’ve talked about it and we want to be true to the series and the mythology, but we wanted to make sure we made the best movies we can and do what feels right, like we’ve always done. Having said that, that 2012 date is looming in our minds.” Cryptic…
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- Then a dude dressed up as Link asked an awkward question. “What do you like to believe?” Chris Carter asks the guy, “Can I ask you a question? Are you from Sherwood Forrest?” Link laughs and Duchovny said, “I believe in that.” Tons of laughs… but it gets better. He asks, “Who are you dressed as?” “Link.” Cheers and laughs from the audience. Duchovny looks at the dude for a full 5 seconds or so then goes, “Who?” At this point Gillian breaks in and goes, “Is this a fetish?” Laughs and a mumbled something about the internet from Link. Then an awkward silent pause and Gillian asks David, “What do you believe in?” And David says, “I thought we had circumvented that…”
- Will Krycek return? Audience member, “I know he’s lost arms… but is he really dead or will he be back?” Duchovny interjects, “He’s got that tea bag dipping hand…” then imitates it for a long time. “I can go all day!” Carter: “We are keeping a secret and I think you’ll all appreciate we are… about who all is going to appear in the movie, besides David and Gillian, of course… So, I’ll just say to you… nobody’s really ever dead in The X-Files.”
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I can’t tell you guys how big the audience was for this. I think you’re going to see all these closeted X-Philes come out and freak everybody out come July. The panel was great, everybody was laid back and funny. They left saying that they feel vindicated with the huge audience and reception. They believed the fans were still out there, now they know they are.
Can’t wait to see Mulder and Scully again!
-Quint
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35726
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>From Weekly Comic Book Review,
- The X-Files 2 Panel was a lot of fun. I thought Star Trek fans were nerdy, but female X-File fans are 10 times worse! David Duchovny and Chris Carter making fun of a fan dressed up as Link from Zelda was the funniest thing ever.
Pix:
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http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/wondercon-2008/
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WONDERCON: "X-FILES" PANEL
--From ComicBookResources
Posted: February 24, 2008
WonderCon was a buzz Saturday with the star power in attendance at many of its various panels and presentations. "X-Files" fans in particular were treated to a truly unique presentation by 20th Century Fox of the second X-Files movie. Director Chris Carter, Writer Frank Spotnitz and leads Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny all flew in from the still in production set in Vancouver to give fans a look at the upcoming feature film. The packed convention hall was full of rabid hooting and hollering X-Files fans all overjoyed to be in the house for this special Q&A. Before the cast was brought in, Fox treated fans to the first teaser trailer.
The scene is a snow covered field in the middle of nowhere with hundreds of FBI agents with sticks walking and poking into the ground. Rapper turned actor Xibit playing an FBI Agent calls out to the agents telling them to keep the line tight. A white haired man wildly walks in front of the agents looking for something. He keeps saying “It's here. I know it.” The scene changes to images of bleeding eyed men and suspenseful looks at various people and agents scrambling. Then the snow covered field is shown again and we see Fox Mulder and Dana Scully behind the white haired man and they find something or someone encased in snow. More shots of random images are shown and then it cuts to "Coming July 25th 2008."
The crowd cheers wildly as the Director/Writer and cast are all introduced. Anderson and Duchovny were both overwhelmed by how enthusiastic the crowd was to be in their presence. With so many lined up for the Q&A, they opened up the mic immediately to field questions.
The moderator asked -- since it had been six years since the show ended and 10 since the first movie came out -- why this film would be worth the wait. Smiling coyly, Carter answered “It will scare the pants off you.” Carter stated that you will get to see Mulder and Scully again in a whole new way in this film.
The first fan thanked the cast and told them she had been watching "X-Files" since she was 10 and asked if there are any plans for more movies. Carter sarcastically told the fan “right away.”
The next fan asked if it was easy to go right back into their roles. Anderson said that she had a rough start and a bad 48 hours trying to be Scully again. Duchovny told Anderson to tell the fans which scenes sucked. The crowd roared with laughter. Duchovny went on to explain how nice it was to come back, working with all these people again.
Duchovny was then asked if he would be writing or directing anything in the near future. He said he loved directing and writing and if anyone was stupid enough to give him the money, he is all for it.
Anderson was asked if she had to think her way back into the roll or if it was automatic. Anderson said that it was two different things, intuitively it was something she tried to do again, but her brain would automatically tell her to stop trying to play Scully and just be Scully again. Duchovny added “I just say the words.”
The moderator asked Carter and Spotnitz how hard it was to put pen to paper and write these characters again. Spotnitz said he was surprised how he reconnected wit the characters and felt it was missing people he found again and it was a nice surprise. Carter added it was like no time had passed at all. He asked the crowd if they liked the trailer to which the crowd roared with approval. “Just wanted to make sure,” Carter joked.
A fan asked if Mark Snow was going to score the film and how Carter felt about the first episode of the spin-off show "The Lone Gunman" with the airliner and twin towers that eerily foreshadowed the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. Carter said he wasn’t going to touch that one and asked Spotnitz to help answer since he had more to do with that series. Spotnitz said that Mark Snow would score the film. Then he said when he woke up on 9/11 and saw what had happened, he asked himself if his episode maybe inspired the events. He was relieved to find out the plot existed long before his writing and he also didn’t understand if it could be thought up, why our government could foresee it and why they were not prepared. Frank added it’s been the subject of many online conspiracy websites.
The next fan asked about the significance of the religious undertones in the "X-Files" TV series. Carter explained how he always felt the "X-Files" was like a search for the existence of God. “It was a big part of the inspiration, but no one religion was the focus.” He stated that he always felt that Fox Mulder’s poster in his office said it best -- "The Truth Is Out There."
Another fan asked what was the most difficult scene to film in the movie? Anderson answered the movie is not done filming. David added he thought the Scully/Mulder scenes were hard because he tried to put so much weight into them emotionally. Anderson seconded that and added "My first 48 hours."
The next question was about Elizabeth Rosner's "Speed of Light," a book Anderson has optioned and is planning to direct. Anderson told the fan it’s a work in progress and it will get there, she promised.
The moderator then asked Carter about the other actors in the upcoming film, who else aside from Xibit would be in the cast and what brought them to the X-Files? Carter told him that Amanda Peet would be playing an FBI Agent named Dakota Whitney and Billy Connely would be playing a man with very long hair.
The cast was then asked, since the X-Files uses many classic sci-fi/horror trappings like vampires or Prometheus, if there were any personal narratives in the film and if there was something that they might want to try out in this film that was not done on the show. Duchovny said this film seemed to be a bit of Dorian Grey then looked at Chris Carter and added “No, not that way.” Anderson said she thought Mulder should try auto erotic asphyxiation it might be a good thing for Mulder. Carter said he had a list of ideas of things he wanted to do and he felt the show ended at the right time. He feels the country had a shift after 9/11 and now the appetite is right for the movie.
A fan asked if the film would be a self contained “Monster of the Week” or if it would have some of the mythology. Carter said it might have elements of that, but he just wanted to make a great film that would stand the test and just be a great movie.
The next fan told Anderson her favorite episode was one directed by the actress, to which Anderson responded that she was so thrilled and loved directing it and enjoyed it tremendously and she wanted to do it again.
Duchovny and Anderson were asked their favorite episodes and Anderson mentioned "Bad Blood," which found the agents telling their side of the story separately concerning the shooting of a man who was thought to be a vampire. Anderson felt it was an episode that was shot at such a great time that she really loved the premise. Duchovny added "Bad Blood" is the episode Anderson won’t ever stop talking about.
When asked how the new film came about, Carter said it was because Anderson and Duchovny were really interested in coming back to the X-Files. Fox then came back to the group and said it’s now or never.
A fan asked what the new film has to offer in FBI tactics and technology, since other shows like "CSI" use a lot of those elements in their storytelling. David explained how the story telling in the X-Files was more sophisticated because the story telling was about the battle of Scully’s point of view and Mulder's point of view. Duchovny feels you watch "The X-Files" for the drama of solving the case with intellect, not bullets going through pieces of meat.
A fan asked if the character Krycek would be in the film. Carter didn’t want to give away any secrets, but assured the fans no one in the X-Files stays dead.
Finally one cheeky fan asked Anderson and Duchovny what it was like to work with one of the greatest actors of all time -- Homer Simpson. Duchonvy laughed and said they voiced "The Simpsons" episode apart from the cast and then two years later it was aired. “Homer gave me nothing,” joked Duchovny.
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