Films Directed by Rob Bowman (Study Guide) - The X-Files, Airborne (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: The X-Files, Airborne. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The X-Files (also known as The X-Files: Fight the Future) is a 1998 American science-fiction, horror and thriller film written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, and directed by Rob Bowman. It is the first feature film based on The X-Files series created by Carter that revolves around a fictional FBI paranormal investigation unit called the X-Files. Three main characters from the television series appear in the film: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and Mitch Pileggi reprise their respective roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder, Dana Scully and Assistant Director Walter Skinner. The film's tagline and sub-title is Fight the Future. The story follows agents Mulder (Duchovny) and Scully (Anderson), removed from their usual jobs on the X-Files, and investigating the bombing of a building and the destruction of criminal evidence. They uncover what appears to be a government conspiracy attempting to hide the truth about an alien colonization of Earth. In addition to dealing with mysterious adversaries and unhelpful bosses, the agents face the end of their professional partnership. When Scully is abducted, Mulder goes to Antarctica to rescue her and finds a huge underground laboratory with cocooned aliens. When the lab is destroyed, he witnesses an alien spacecraft flying off into the distance. At the end of the film, the X-Files unit is reopened. Viewed in the context of The X-Files chronology, the film's story takes place between seasons five and six of the television series, and is based upon the series' extraterrestrial mythology. Chris Carter decided to make a feature film to explore the show's mythology on a wider scale, as well as appealing to non-fans. He wr...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1078863