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2 March, 2001
The Lone Gunmen
This series will not simply be a clone of the X-Files. "There are no aliens, no fat-sucking vampires, no inbred brothers with their mom under the bed," says series star Dean Haglund. "Nothing dark. It's more government conspiracies, corporate conspiracies, urban myths. We're fighting the Man for truth, justice and the American way."
"The premise is simply taking The Lone Gunmen--known as the three characters who helped Mulder and Scully occasionally when they were stumped--this is what we do when we're not helping our friends at the FBI," says one of the other stars, Bruce Harwood. "We have a weekly newspaper known as The Lone Gunman, after the Kennedy assassination lone-gunman theory. ... And we investigate conspiracies of all shapes and sizes. In theory, every episode represents a story that gets front-page treatment in our newspaper."
This series is a comedy first and foremost. That resulted in a distancing from the X-Files, which it is a spinoff from. "I think it was a conscious attempt on the part of the producers and writers to differentiate the show from The X-Files," Harwood said. "Though our characters came around to the idea of UFOs on X-Files, when we first came around, we didn't believe in them, and we laughed at Mulder for believing in them."
