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Alien | Extraterrestrial Technology
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Budget 30,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 69,363,381 USD
Mitch Pileggi stated at a convention that the plot was so top secret that he didn't find out that his character Walter Skinner was in this movie until filming was well under way. He also joked that he could ask for as much money he wanted as filming took place during the writers' strike, meaning he couldn't be written out.
Chris Carter originally planned to make this movie right after the end of The X-Files (1993), and use it to end the alien invasion story line. Since production was delayed for over five years, Carter decided to focus on a standalone mystery in order to make the movie appealing to people who weren't familiar with the show's mythology, leaving the invasion subplot for a possible third movie.
This movie is dedicated to Randy Stone, the casting agent who cast The X-Files: Pilot (1993), and who found David Duchovny to play Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson to play Dana Scully. Stone died in 2007.
Production was kept under a tight veil of secrecy in order to keep plot details from leaking to the public prior to its release. "Done One" was the working title during filming, complete with logo. The Directors Guild production list named "Rich Tracers" as the project's attached director, an anagram of Chris Carter, the actual director's name. A fake production company name, "The Crying Box Productions", was used in work orders and information sheets. Fake scripts were produced for actor and actress auditions. On any particular day of filming, only the pages required for that day's scenes were distributed, and were then collected and shredded at the end of the day.
At the end of the scene where Dana Scully is discussing the options for her patient with the hospital administrators, on the wall behind her are several photographs of priests. The last one is a photograph of Bruce Harwood, who played John Fitzgerald Byers, one of the three Lone Gunmen from The X-Files (1993) and its spin-off series, The Lone Gunmen (2001).
"Fox Mulder: What's up, Doc?"
"Fox Mulder: I can feel you thinking. Dana Scully: I'm sorry. I can't sleep. Fox Mulder: Actually, I have a little something for that. Dana Scully: Just a little something? Fox Mulder: Thank you."
