DANA SCULLY WAS PARTLY MODELED ON CLARICE STARLING.Ĭarter has been vocal about his admiration for Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning film The Silence of the Lambs and the influence it had on The X-Files. Among them: Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Twin Peaks, The Thin Blue Line, Prime Suspect, Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, and The Silence of the Lambs. In the more than 20 years since The X-Files made its premiere, Carter has cited a number of movies and television shows as helping to inspire its style and tone. So I knew I would be exploring these things, though I didn't know I would be doing it for nine years.” Watching it, is where the entertainment value lies. One of my favorite movies is All the President's Men the most amazing thing about it, and it's watchable time and again, is that we know the outcome. When asked about his intentions in creating The X-Files, Chris Carter told Twitch that, “I'm a child of the Watergate era, so I question authority and mistrust it, that was in my blood. CHRIS CARTER WAS INSPIRED BY ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN. “ is tantamount to a religious experience.” 2. “Everybody wants to hear that story,” Carter told Entertainment Weekly. Mack’s analysis of a 1991 Roper Poll survey, which stated that at least 3.7 million Americans may have been abducted by aliens. THE IDEA FOR THE SHOW ORIGINATED WITH A PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY.Ĭhris Carter’s interest in the paranormal was piqued when he read Pulitzer Prize-winning writer/psychiatrist/Harvard Medical School professor John E. While we sit here and hold out hope that they might change their mind, here are 22 facts about the iconic series on its 25th anniversary. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson returned to our televisions in 2016 to reprise their roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully for two new seasons, but both the network and the series' stars have said that there won't be another season. Is the truth really out there? The X-Files began its original nine-season run on September 10, 1993.

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