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The follow-up to the first volume of The X-Files Official Archives in 2020 has now been postponed many, many times since its original announcement for December 2023. Now in an interview with The Wrap, author Paul Terry teases the next volume, for March 7, 2027. On the publisher's site, Abrams Books, now says March 9,...

The follow-up to the first volume of The X-Files Official Archives in 2020 has now been postponed many, many times since its original announcement for December 2023. Now in an interview with The Wrap, author Paul Terry teases the next volume, for March 7, 2027. On the publisher’s site, Abrams Books, now says March 9, 2027. Let’s hope it will happen this time! “The X-Files: The Official Archives: Volume II: Extraterrestrial Activity and the Syndicate” will cover the show’s mythology — so you can be sure I’m very excited to hold this in my hands! At 360 pages, it’s also 60 pages longer than Volume 1, it’s going to be big! Note the date on the cover page next to Terry’s name: 7/3/2023, which is probably when he finished making it, already over three years ago (Volume 1 had 3/21/20, and it was published in September 2020). The interview includes the first look of the interior: looks like the last page on _5X20: The End_ (the burnt X-Files office) and the first page on _Fight the Future_ (Blackwood county, Texas). As with Volume 1, there will be a meta-narrative woven into the files. I am guessing it will be again about Agent Leyla Harrison putting together this collection of files, or it could be something else. Terry says: “Mulder and Scully’s investigations into extraterrestrial activity and the Syndicate was often very dangerous. With volume two, I felt it was important to capture the spirit of that. And so, as the reader studies the case files, they will gradually pick up on something else that is going on. Something _perilous_. It heightens the classified nature of what Agents Mulder and Scully, and others, investigated, in search of the truth.” It will cover everything from the beginning all the way to the revival, so I’m curious how and if the book will deal with the jump from the original mythology to the revival’s reworked mythology that swept several things under the rug (or contradicted what came before, take your pick). Of course, rather than any new information on The Truth of it all, the joy of this book will be more the physical object itself, and the replicas of props and images unearthed by Terry at the Fox archives! Why the accumulated delays? We don’t know. But we can theorize it had something to do with Disney’s takeover of Fox and the subsequent streamlining of their merchandising. Maybe they were keeping such a release handy to go together with the release of the Coogler/Yale project on Hulu/Disney+, in which case this new release date gives us a hint as to when that is coming out.

And so the recycling machine continues on its path. Disney is taking advantage of Ten/Thirteen day to announce that the Coogler/Yale The X-Files project will be more than just the pilot: it is going to series! Ludwig Göransson confirmed as the composer for the pilot, which is good news! No other details announced (number of...

And so the recycling machine continues on its path. Disney is taking advantage of Ten/Thirteen day to announce that the Coogler/Yale The X-Files project will be more than just the pilot: it is going to series! Ludwig Göransson confirmed as the composer for the pilot, which is good news! No other details announced (number of episodes, when it would air). The episodes actually have to be made before any of that comes, unless Disney/Hulu wants to just release the pilot ahead of time first. 2027 would be a good guess. As reported previously, the two-hour pilot finished shooting in June. Coogler liked it so much he was considering pushing for a feature film release. It was also announced that Coogler was moving to developing series for Netflix, so apparently he would not be further involved with the TXF series; indeed, Coogler’s five-year development deal with Disney started in 2021. Jennifer Yale will be the TXF series showrunner. Announcement on Deadline Images from Disney/Hulu’s Facebook Happy 70th birthday for Chris Carter and happy 65th birthday for Fox Mulder…

Jeff Charbonneau passed away last week, according to X-Files News. He was the music editor for everything Ten Thirteen produced: The X-Files from the pilot all the way to the revival seasons; Millennium; Harsh Realm; The Lone Gunmen; the two TXF movies; even Carter's pilot for The After. The Vrach Frankenshteyn director's cut was the...

Jeff Charbonneau passed away last week, according to X-Files News. He was the music editor for everything Ten Thirteen produced: _The X-Files_ from the pilot all the way to the revival seasons; _Millennium_ ; _Harsh Realm_ ; _The Lone Gunmen_ ; the two TXF movies; even Carter’s pilot for _The After_. The _Vrach Frankenshteyn_ director’s cut was the last thing he worked on. He was one of the foundations of all of Ten Thirteen and one of those figures behind the scenes that didn’t get a spotlight but were important. Our thoughts are with his family. Jeff worked with the sound effects team and music mixer Larold Rebhun to balance music and sound, creating the shows’ unique atmospheres. A close collaborator of composer Mark Snow, who passed away last year, he edited Mark’s music into the episodes, did some arrangements and occasionally contributed with music himself. Most memorably, he composed the music in _4X13: Never Again_ where Scully gets her tattoo (and found on La-La Land’s TXF Volume 4): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rntaoH3SLmo Just looking at his Ten Thirteen work, he won two Emmy Awards for sound editing for _The X-Files_ and got nominated three more times, plus once for _Millennium_. See here a detailed interview with Jeff at The X-Files Lexicon (via Archive.org) from 2012. He also worked on many other shows, such as _24_ , _Homeland_ (both with ex-TXF alumni Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, and Larold Rebhun), _Love, Death + Robots_ … not to mention his film work: _Dazed and Confused_ , _Seven Years in Tibet_ … Jeff had a rich background, well-travelled, studied film and anthropology, a performing musician and an acrobat, and was an accomplished photographer. Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French collaborated together on peculiar photography projects that I can only describe as surreal gothic fantasy by way of Jean Cocteau and the Quay Brothers. Below is a small selection of their work. Personally, I find them very enchanting and intriguing! See more at their website is Seven Sisters Asleep.