Some info about Season 9 (very general spoilers. It's probably even ok if you haven't seen season 8). -- X-Philes World-X-Files Movie 2

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Date Posted: 21:28:18 08/01/01 Wed
Author: detoured
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Some info about Season 9 (very general spoilers. It's probably even ok if you haven't seen season 8).

I read this in today's Hollywood Reporter and thought it was interesting. Especially the part about recreating the FBI training academy at Quantico. That might be good!

>>Road trip inspires 'X-Files' location manager

Aug. 01, 2001
By Nicole Sperling

Fox's location-intensive television series "The X-Files" finally got smart.

After seven years of driving its location staff into overtime hell in the United States and Canada, "X-Files" threw location manager Ilt Jones a bone: a two-week scouting roadshow, during hiatus, to find all the weird locations he could for the upcoming season. If successful, the writers would find inspiration from his scouting trips, actually writing those locations into the season -- an effort that would save the production staff time, money and, most importantly, their sanity.

So did these tours of Southern California work? The answer is yes. In fact, Jones recently returned from his second scouting roadshow, hoping to inspire the creative team with strange mansions, closed-down factories and water filtration plants as sites for potential story lines for the ninth season, which premieres Nov. 4.

"This is a very unusual thing to do," said Jones, a veteran location manager who has worked on NBC's "Profiler," Sony Pictures' "As Good as It Gets" and "Gattaca," Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and others. "It has really recharged my batteries. The scale and nature of the stories places a huge importance on locations. The prep work can be very intense. This is my chance to see things in advance and stay that much further ahead."

The production crew on "X-Files" often compares the 20-episode season with working on 20 features in one year, an endeavor that demands a hectic schedule from July-May. Jones was able to build up his library significantly during his first scouting trip, enabling the show to use about 20-30 locations from his trip throughout the season. This significantly eased the pressure to put together entire locations in an eight-day period.

His favorite example is the use of an oil rig off the coast of Santa Barbara that served as the Galpex Petroleum Orpheus oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico shot for Episode 16, "Vienen." Once the writers confirmed with Jones and production designer Corey Kaplan that the location was indeed being used, the team had about six weeks to put the shoot together -- a far cry from the two weeks the production staff usually receives for a location shoot. Kaplan spent almost as much time re-creating a control room, a mess hall and some operational sections of the oil platform onstage. "She either magnified or amended what was there to make it photogenic," Jones said. "It all matched. It was great design on her part." The team also brought to life the closed down CENCO Refinery in Santa Fe Springs to complete the shoot.

"This was a brilliant piece of synergy between all the departments," Kaplan said. "This way, we could quietly start preparing the episode and the location. We had the time to re-create it into the scope of the budget. If this was a rush job, it would have been much more expensive."

While no figures have been given as to the amount of money they have saved the show, it's clear that all parties have benefited from Jones' trips. In fact, Kaplan and Jones were even able to visit Washington this break to get a firsthand look at the Hoover building and the Quantico, Va., FBI training academy. While they claimed that the trip was to increase their personal knowledge of the area, which is often featured in the show, "X-Files" fans might want to expect a re-creation of the Quantico facility during the upcoming season.

Other Southern California locations that might find their way into the season are a former Boeing/NASA facility in Downey that Jones called "militaristic," a weird brick mansion in South Pasadena and a gothic-looking water filtration plant in La Verne. No details have been revealed as to what will or will not be used, but with a plethora of potential new locations, the results should be interesting.

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Re: Some info about Season 9 (very general spoilers. It's probably even ok if you haven't seen season 8). -- Athenaxphile, 11:09:04 08/04/01 Sat
- Great idea--makes a lot of sense to scout ahead and -- CW, 10:37:08 08/09/01 Thu