In an interview with CINESCAPE talking about all things X-FILES, Chris Carter had a few things to say about the upcoming Season 5 boxed set release of FILES, as well as his plan to meld that season with the first X-FILES film, which opened a few weeks after the season ended.
"It was the season where not only did we have to do the season perfectly, but we had to finish the movie, and it was working backwards and forwards at the same time," said Carter of Season 5, which was shot after production wrapped on the X-FILES film but took place chronologically before the story seen in the movie. All of the mythology plot threads of Season 5 therefore had to lead naturally into the beginning of the film, but were written and shot long after the movie was in the can.
"If we screwed up on any one thing, it would affect everything else," Carter told us. "If we screwed up on the movie, it was going to affect the series. If we screwed up on the series, it was going to damage the movie. It was a house of cards that we needed to stack oh so carefully. And we succeeded... It all worked," says Carter. "It was one big, beautiful plan. But there are episodes in Season 5 that didn't have anything to do with the movie 'Bad Blood,' 'Kill Switch,' 'Unusual Suspects' that added to the storytelling franchise of the series and made it an enjoyable year."
For more, including talk on the end of THE X-FILES and what fans might expect as the series closes out, use your CINESCAPE subscription to sign onto the premium content side of the DVD section and check it out.
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