The X-Files
The X-Files (also known as The X-Files: Fight the Future) is a 1998 American science fiction thriller film based on Chris Carter's television series of the same name, which revolves around fictional unsolved cases called the X-Files and the characters solving them. It was directed by Rob Bowman, written by Carter and Frank Spotnitz and featured five main characters from the television series: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, John Neville, and William B. Davis reprise their respective roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, Well-Manicured Man, and the Cigarette-Smoking Man. The film was promoted with the tagline Fight the Future.
Plot
In 35,000 B.C. during the Ice Age, in what will become North Texas, two cavemen hunters encounter an extraterrestrial life form in a cave, which kills one and infects the other with a black oil-like substance. In 1998, a boy falls into a hole and is also infected by the black oil after it seeps from the ground. Firefighters who enter the hole to rescue him do not come out. A team of men wearing hazmat suits later extract the bodies of the boy and the firefighters. Meanwhile, FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, investigating a bomb threat against a federal building in Dallas, discover the bomb in a building across the street. As the building is evacuated, Special Agent in Charge Darius Michaud remains, ostensibly to disarm the bomb. However, he simply waits for the bomb to detonate.
Cast
- Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Blythe Danner
- Bruce Harwood
- David Duchovny
- Dean Haglund
- Don S. Williams
- Gary Grubbs
- George Murdock
- Gillian Anderson
- Glenne Headly
- Jason Beghe
- Jeffrey DeMunn
- John Neville
- Larry Joshua
- Lucas Black
- Martin Landau
- Michael Shamus Wiles
- Mitch Pileggi
- Steve Rankin
- Ted King
- Terry O'Quinn
- Tom Braidwood
- William B. Davis