While a Vancouver crew for the upcoming X-Files miniseries has been busy shooting street scenes involving actors David Duchovny (Fox Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully), another crew has apparently been shooting night scenes in Ashcroft, an hour west of Kamloops.
The set features a flying saucer embedded in the ground. Ashcroft, with its semi-desert terrain, may be standing in for Roswell, New Mexico, a supposed UFO crash site that is a big part of the X-Files mythology. "Ashcroft has the Wilderness Way Resort zipline park and they are filming right on their land. The X-File crew is staying at their resort," said Smart. "It's my understanding that they are filming a whole whack of stuff at night."
The original series was shot in Vancouver for the first five seasons of its nine-year run (1993-2002) before moving to Los Angeles in 1998.
Duchovny, Anderson and Carter did return here to shoot the 2008 theatrical release, The X-Files: I Want To Believe.
