BBC HomeExplore the BBC
This page was last updated in September 2005We've left it here for reference.More information

7 February 2011
Accessibility help
Text only
The X Files - Click to return to homepage

BBC Homepage
Entertainment
Cult homepage
»The X Files
Homepage
Episode Guide
Fact file
Interviews
Intro
Links
Personnel
Picture gallery
Quizzes
Trailers


 

Contact Us

Like this page?
Send it to a friend!

 

X Files | Interviews | Frank Spotnitz
Spoiler watch

How do you try to protect the stories?

There is a limit to how much we can do to protect the secrecy of the television shows and the television scripts.

There are just too many people on the Fox lot who have to read each one of these scripts before it gets produced. There�s literally hundreds of people that read it so it�s virtually impossible to protect that secret.

When we did The X Files feature film we had a much greater opportunity to be super secret. So we printed the scripts on red paper, we numbered each one of them. We had people sign privacy agreements.

We were insanely protective of it. The story line still did get out despite all that, but we were able to float enough false story lines and denials that no-one really knew what the real story was until the feature was released.

<< Back index Next >>
PrintPrinter-friendly Version
Video Clips
VIDEO CLIP:Mulder's Habits
VIDEO CLIP:Sexual Chemistry
VIDEO CLIP:The Avengers




Mulder

Watch The X Files in the UK on BBC 2. For times please check the Whats' On site. The X Files TM & ©Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.



About the BBC | Help | Terms of Use | Privacy & Cookies Policy