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X-Files 2: Is The Truth Out There?By Josh Tyler: 2008-02-27 02:24:26
It’s a weird thing when a legitimate movie studio intentionally takes on the role of internet troll. A few days ago we speculated that this may be what’s going on with X-Files 2, there’s a growing suspicion that Chris Carter and his production team or Fox Studios are intentionally leaking all kinds of fake information to movie sites like this one, because they’re paranoid and desperate to hide every detail of the film, or because they like screwing with us. Take your pick.
Anyway, today the guys over at UGO have thrown a little more fuel on this suspicion fire. They were recently invited the set of X-Files 2, and say they got that same vibe, even while they were on set. UGO’s Patrick says, “I was with a bunch of online journalists and it was mentioned more than once by the various talent how they don’t want the story details of their show ruined months before it has a chance to open.” That desire for extreme secrecy seems to have led them to start viewing journalists as the enemy. Patrick continues, “As soon as I left the set of X-Files 2 that day I felt that I didn’t have enough to do a decent story about the show because I knew next to nothing about what was going on.” Secrecy definitely seems to be the order of the day on the X-Files 2 set, you have to wonder why they’d even invite people to the set if they didn’t want to tell them anything. And from what Patrick says, it sounds like a lot of what they did show him might have been entirely faked. Patrick says, “the paranoid side of me suspects that the stuff that I did see on my X-Files 2 set visit could have been phony, or perhaps the reason why less was explained to our group than to the audience attendees at WonderCon is that we’re viewed as the enemy.” It’s a strange marketing tactic. When you’re talking to the media, you’re basically talking to your fans since the media is the only way your fans have to interact with what you’re doing most of the time. Is it really a good policy to lie to your fans about what you’re doing? I can’t decide how I feel about this whole thing. Is it a big deal, or is it kind of cool that they’d go through so much trouble to throw all of us off track and keep it a secret? I guess I don’t mind the secrecy, it’s just lying that makes me feel uncomfortable, if indeed that’s what’s going on here. It’s hard to know who to trust now, and so when UGO says they have a new scoop on what the movie may be about, I don’t even know if I should bother reporting on it. I guess I might as well. They say the movie is about multiple monsters, which may or may not mean things like vampires and werewolves. Of course even if they’d heard that from Chris Carter himself, at this point there’s no way to know if it’s true. Is the truth out there? Nobody knows. RELATED: x-files, sequel, chris carter, fox
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February 27th, 2008 at 03:01
I have no problem with keeping a tight lid on things. Plenty movies do so successfully. I can even stomach endless viral marketing crap.
Wasting everyone's time and deliberately leaking false information though just reeks to me of being rather disingenuous and at worst risks showing a huge amount of contempt for a bunch of guys who just want to promote your movie on their own time on their own site with no advertising revenue coming in from the studio for doing so.
In some cases this is the studio screwing around with people's livelihoods. We're not the papparazzi, we're not necessarily interested in getting a figurative X-Files 2 crotch-shot (yes scoops are nice but hey they're not what we live for) but how can the genuine guys out here who aren't just dime-a-dozen bloggers expected to make any progress and gain any respect when producers treat them with such open distain.
All the while handing out freebies to other select internet outlets who are willing to throw intergrity out the window and do and say exactly what the studio wants them to because they love schwag more than writing.