On this page we will be publishing
the latest news on season 7.
This is reported to be the last
season ever of the show - the crew are ending it now while it is still
producing good stories and is still popular.
There is likely to be another movie
in 2002/03.
Remember, at this point these are
just rumours.
Nothing can be confirmed until
the US premiere in November.
By TomBli via Dennis X From Spoilerville:
The truth is out there but so are lies. Thus Scully cautioned her
fellow investigator Mulder. And for those others who spend time
investigating the mysteries of "The X-Files" [the series in this case]
these are words to follow like the beam of a flashlight. The rumors are
out there too. And as far as season seven of the award winning Fox
drama is involved few of them have substance.
For example, one such rumor that has been running with lungs of iron is
that the much promised, Stephen King/George Romero episode will finally
spring to life [undeath?] in the seventh season. As nothing has been
packaged in terms of any agreement with these two talents such claims
are stapled together with hopes and not much more at this point. This
isn't to say that it won't happen, just that it's not happening now.
Names of episodes and details about them are being handed out like
candy on Halloween. But in every case fans are walking away much like
Charlie Brown with a bag full of rocks. There are as of yet no scripts
written for season seven of The X-Files and as such the titles that are
being suggested for episodes are non existent.
However, for those in search of spoilers the answers are there. You
just need to know where to look. The season six finale left the
audience with large questions. Mulder seemed to be losing his mind.
Why? What made Mulder go "violent" and cause him to be
institutionalized? In the past the scribes at Ten Thirteen Productions
were as much in the dark as the show's rabid followers! They often
times wrote themselves into corners with no solid concept of where the
story would evolve. Things are different with this cliffhanger.
Originally, the plot for the season finale was to consist of more than
a single episode and to be continued to the opening of the seventh
season [a fourth installment]. Various difficulties led to the story
arc being trimmed down. But important elements were written and even
included into the script for the twenty second episode of season six.
These were later removed. Yet as it is that they're pivotal to the
explanation of how certain situations came about they'll be expressed
dramatically in the show's premiere in November.
In the installment that opens season seven the nature of Mulder's
'insanity' will be revealed. The agent hasn't been enduring bouts of
schizophrenia after all. He's been reading people's minds after the
fashion of psychic whiz kid Gibson Praise! [Jeff Gulka who portrays
Gibson has been approached by Ten Thirteen for further work on the
series for it's seventh year.] Mulder hasn't been able to control this
paranormal ability and this has caused him to become disoriented and
seemingly insane.
The reason for this psychic ability coming into being is related to
Mulder becoming exposed to the cosmic radiation from an ancient
artifact. A rubbing was made of this relic and it absorbed from it a
form of energy found only outside of our solar system. Mulder became
impregnated with it upon handling the rubbing. This energy only causes
a reaction in certain people [ there are plot points here reminiscent
of Hammer Studio's 1967 film "Quatermass And The Pit" released in the
US as "Five Million Years To Earth"]
In the premiere of "The X-Files" in November we'll learn that while
alone with her at his apartment Mulder started to receive psychic
impressions from the mind of Diana Fowley. From what he was able to
take from her mind his old flame had in some way betrayed him [he
suspects her of spying on him as he suggested to Scully that Skinnerwas].
Mulder became enraged. He made such accusations against her. In his
disorganized state [as well as his anger] Fowley became convinced that
Mulder was a danger. She fired on him with an electric stun gun and
incapacitated him. This is how Mulder came to be deemed dangerous and
held in a rubber room.
This episode will mark a new direction in the continuing 'mythology'
[the main story thread] of the series. Most of the plot points of
earlier seasons will never be revisited again. There's going to be
hanging loose ends to be sure. However it will make for a leaner,
clearer season...
‘X-Files’ Season 7 Hints?
Jon Audette
over at the AZX Files website has checked in with some information that
he
has acquired
which he claims to be potential spoilers for the upcoming seventh and final
season of
The X-Files. Audette wisely warns that it may be a bit too early for these
spoilers
because production
hasn’t started yet and anything is subject to change before it starts
filming. Here’s
some of what he provides on his site:
- "Episode
7X01 will begin where BIOGENESIS left off, with Mulder in New Mexico,
about to die.
Expect Fowley, Skinner, Spender and just maybe the blond that won't die,
Marita. More
coming when it shoots, which is mid-August."
- An episode
that is tentatively titled "Always" is slated to be filmed in Vancouver,
ironically.
Audette says
the episode "has Mulder and Scully stranded in some sort of forest/forest
with
ice where
they begin to talk......about their ‘relationship’, etc. This may be the
‘Demeter’
rumored from
season six."
- There will
be a two-part story along the lines of "Ice" and "Space" which tells the
story of
"a group of
astronauts coming back to Earth after a mission infected with that blasted
black
oil!" The
two parts are likely to show up during the February sweeps.
- The much rumored, Stephen King/George Romero episode will finally happen.
- An episode
titled "The Banshee" written by Michael Scott is said to have been shelved
for
season six,
but may pop up in seven.
- The season
and series’ finale is tentatively titled "Epilogue" with plans to tie up
most of the
loose threads,
but not all. Remember, there is a second feature film in the works.