The X Files - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[lonnie]

The exterior location used for the London meeting of the Syndicate was Queen Alexandra's House, a hall of residence for female students studying in London.

[jesse]

Gillian Anderson wore a rubber covering in the scene where Scully is naked and frozen in the alien incubation cryopod.

[ken]

At the end of the scene with the chasing of the white trucks, Mulder and Scully have a talk. The cuts showing Mulder talking by the roadside had lights in the background that needed to be removed in post production. 24 frames per second, at about $1000 per frame. Director Chris Carter on the commentary admits this $25k/second mistake in filming.

[darrell]

Getting a bee to walk along Gillian Anderson's shoulder was achieved by putting some pheromone in the air and gently blowing it with little fans in the direction they wanted the bee to move.

[nina]

Chris Carter originally wanted to end the television series after the fifth season, and continue the show mythology with a series of films, beginning with this one. The Fox Network, however, saw the series as too profitable, and forced Carter to write this film as a tie-in between two seasons of the show, a task which he found very daunting.

[bessie]

3,000 bees were used for the sequence inside the bee dome.

[sara]

In this film "The Syndicate" is seemingly under the leadership of Conrad Strughold, as played by Armin Mueller Stahl; Despite the character's prominence in the film and the suggestion of his supreme command over the Smoking Man and the Syndicate -- he had previously never been seen in the series, nor would he ever be mentioned or heard from again in the X-Files canon (save for one detail in which Operation Paper Clip is somehow tied to the "Strughold Mining Company"). Since that episode covered the recruitment of Nazi scientists to the Syndicate's endgame, it is possible Strughold had connections to the Nazi regime as well, which would explain his limited movement in the series as he would be classified as a war criminal and not distinguished like the other powerful members of the consortium.

[tamara]

Stevie (Lucas Black) is named after one of the original series creator Chris Carter's boyhood friends. Carter says that he and the real Stevie used to dig holes a lot, just like in the movie.

[kim]

The working title "Blackwood" came from the works of English writer Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), a member of the Golden Dawn Society, about a race of intelligent beings who predated humans. The fire trucks arriving to rescue Stevie (Lucas Black) have "Blackwood County" printed on the doors.

[lonnie]

Terry O'Quinn, who plays SAC Darius Machaud, dies in the bomb sequence at the beginning of the movie, yet returns in Season 9 as the Shadow Man in The X-Files: Trust No 1 (2002) - only to die again in the Magnatite quarry. He also played Lt. Brian Tillman in The X-Files: Aubrey (1995)

[kenzi]

When Scully arrives in Texas while Mulder was speaking with FBI regarding the bombing evidence Scully tells Mulder she saw a protein code she has never seen before. If she was awoken at 3:00 A.M. to go with Mulder to Bethesda Naval Hospital to take a sample she would not have had time to decode an unknown protien.

[fred]

Because the tagline "Fight the Future" was placed just below the title on the release poster, many X-Files fans took it to be a subtitle. It is still used among fans as an unofficial "episode title," rather than call it "the movie."

[russell]

Shot in 10 weeks during the hiatus between seasons 4 and 5 of the show. Reshoots were also undertaken during production of season 5, which is why either Mulder or Scully are featured less prominently in some of the episodes which were made that year.

[sophie]

Film debut of Ted King, credited here as T.W. King.

[edgar]

In the original trailer, the shot with Mulder & Scully running from the bees was used, albeit minus the SFX bees.

[jesse]

In the story line, Mulder travels to Wilkes Land in Antarctica. Prior to the production of the film, this area had been the subject of a negative gravity anomaly. Eight years after the release of the film, gravity measurements by NASA's GRACE satellites discovered the 300-mile-wide Wilkes Land crater.

[francisco]

After consuming much alcohol and finding the bar's bathroom locked, Mulder relieves himself on a movie poster for Independence Day (1996). A line in Independence Day, spoken just after the first shot of the cable station, is "Yeah, I love X-Files too. I hope I get to see it." However, the feeling wasn't mutual: Chris Carter loathed ID4 and had Mulder piss all over the film's poster to express his disdain for it.

[linda]

As the script was top secret, most of the key production personnel were only allowed to read it under strict supervision.

[nora]

Because the series was still being made in Vancouver, Mulder and Scully's separate apartments had to be rebuilt from scratch in Los Angeles.