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Frank Spotnitz on 'Hunted' Season 1

The creator of Cinmax’s original spy series teases us about tonight’s “a-ha” episode and drops more hints about a third X-Files movie.

Cinemax’s latest original series, “Hunted” stars Melissa George” as Sam Hunter, an agent for the private intelligence firm Byzantium. Her current mission has Sam going undercover as a family’s nanny, and so far every situation has her fighting with or shooting at bad guys. We got to chat with creator Frank Spotnitz by phone, while he is still in London where “Hunted” is based. We know Spotnitz from his years of work on “The X-Files” and “Millennium,” so we had to ask for an update on the third X-Files movie too. ... [Continua a leggere]

Cinemax Eyes New Incarnation Of ‘Hunted’ With Frank Spotnitz And Melissa George

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC-Cinemax series Hunted won’t go beyond its current freshman season after BBC One opted not to renew the espionage drama for a second season. But Cinemax is working with series creator Frank Spotnitz on a new incarnation of the show about spy Sam Hunter (Melissa George). “We are making plans with creator and executive producer Frank Spotnitz and star Melissa George to present a new chapter in the Sam Hunter mythology,” Kary Antholis, President, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, said in a statement to Deadline. “We are very pleased with what Hunted ... [Continua a leggere]

The Truth: Writer & Producer Frank Spotnitz

It was heartening to hear Bob Schultz say at the beginning of his interview with Frank Spotnitz that he’s been to many screenwriters’ festivals and that The London Screenwriters Festival is one of the best festivals he’s ever seen. I happen to agree, even though LSF is actually the only screenwriters festival I’ve ever attended. The truth is that be it two people or six hundred there is something very special about a communion of screenwriters in a room, and while I’ve been blown away on a number of occasions this year, here in this room I feel that creative kinsh ... [Continua a leggere]

X-Files Alum Frank Spotnitz Talks About His Sleek and Sexy New Spy Thriller, Hunted

Full disclosure: We’re big fans of Frank Spotnitz. After all, he spent years as a writer and executive producer on the iconic ‘90s sci-fi droolfest The X-Files and rebooted the creepier-than-creepy thriller Night Stalker for ABC. Though Night Stalker was never really given a proper shot (marketing and time-slot issues), it made for some compelling TV. So imagine our delight when we discovered that Spotnitz was back developing a kick-ass spy thriller called Hunted, starring the lovely Melissa George and airing on Cinemax (go figure!)—did we mention it’s written and set in the U.K.? Snakkle was lucky enough to speak to Spotnitz while he was in town for the Television Critics Association press tour and asked him about working in the U.K. TV system, the genesis of Hunted, casting Melissa George (Alias baddie!), and, of course, his thoughts on a third X-Files movie.

Snakkle: Tell me about the genesis for Hunted and how quickly after the second X-Files movie (released in 2008) did you have this idea bumping around in your brain? Frank Spotnitz: I was invited to the U.K. to speak in 2009, and that’s when I thought about going over there to do a show. And I called Kudos [Film and Television], and I called Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone, because they’d been talking to me for seven years at that point about coming to London to do a show. I always wanted to go to London. I could see how the business was changing, and I thought ther ... [Continua a leggere]

Hunted on HBO is real international espionage

To find the last time there was a successful, truly international TV espionage drama, you’d have to go all the way back to I Spy. There was a failed attempt last year, with the Ashley Judd spy series Missing, but that did not survive its first season. And now there is Hunted, a globe-spanning espionage thriller based in London and actually shot in the cities in which it is set. It debuts on HBO Canada Friday night. “We wanted it to be cinematic and that meant really going to the locations,” says series creator Frank Spotnitz, former producer on The X-Files. “Really ... [Continua a leggere]


Hunted, una spy story dal papà di X Files

Presentata in anteprima al Roma Fiction Fest, “Hunted” è la nuova serie prodotta da BBC One con protagonista Melissa George, in Italia andrà in onda su Sky

ROMA– Che l’aspetto non vi inganni. La bellezza di Sam Hunter (Melissa George) è quella della classica bambolina, invece lei è una macchina letale. Spia per un’agenzia segreta privata, Sam affronta missioni al limite dell’impossibile per cui deve interpretare diversi ruoli, sfoderare un buon talento interpretativo, avere occhi e orecchie sempre aperti e soprattutto essere pronta ad ogni tipo di situazione. Atleta dai polmoni d’acciaio, Sam corre, salta, rimane in apnea, combatte e spara con una precisione e una forza incredibili. Eppure, nonostante s ... [Continua a leggere]

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Il RomaFictionFest inaugura lo spazio dedicato alle anteprime con la proiezione del pilot di Hunted, complesso spy targato BBC

Dopo il colpo di grazia inflitto dalla terribile Missing, a restituire dignità e colore al genere spy sul piccolo schermo ci pensa Hunted, produzione britannica creata e sviluppata da Frank Spotnitz (X Files) che inaugura lo spazio dedicato alle anteprime straniere del RomaFictionFest. Sam Hunter (Melissa George), specializzata in missioni sotto copertura per conto di un'agenzia di intelligence privata, sopravvive ad un attentato organizzato da qualche membro della sua squadra. Un colpo basso che la costringe a far perdere le sue tracce per un lungo periodo. Almeno finché non si ... [Continua a leggere]

RFF: Melissa George presenta Hunted, la nuova serie tv firmata Spotnitz

Oggi è partito il Roma Fiction Festival con l’anteprima dell’attesissima spy story Hunted, creata da Frank Spotnitz e interpretata dall’australiana Melissa George. La serie ideata dal celebre sceneggiatore di X Files, è un prodotto europeo che avrà visibilità mondiale.  Spotnitz ha lavorato sempre sul genere di storie action – thriller e in questa occasione si riadegua alla contemporaneità e al mondo delle agenzie investigative private. La protagonista Sam Hunter, esperta agente sotto copertura per un’agenzia di intelligence ... [Continua a leggere]

RomaFictionFest 2012 Premiere - Hunted

Ad inaugurare le moltissime premiere internazionali – fiori all’occhiello di questa VI edizione del Roma Fiction Fest 2012 – è stata, proprio oggi domenica 30 settembre, la serie Hunted, un misto tra action-thriller e spy story creata da Frank Spotnitz, che per otto dei suoi nove anni di messa in onda, è stato uno degli sceneggiatori del celeberrimo X-Files. Lo show, prodotto dalla BBC, che andrà in onda su Sky Uno a dicembre di quest’anno, tratta la storia di Sam Hunter, interpetata da Melissa George (Dark City, Mulholland Drive, Grey’s Anat ... [Continua a leggere]

Frank Spotnitz - writer and producer

Having worked on The X Files for eight years where he wrote or co-wrote forty episodes, Frank Spotnitz has amassed a colossal body of high profile work, also working on the associated shows Millennium and The Lone Gunmen alongside Harsh Realm and Night Stalker. His new show is Hunted, the explosive new drama from Kudos, the production company behind Spooks, Life on Mars, Hustle and Outcastsamong many others. On Friday 24th August, as part of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, executive producer Alison Jackson, director SJ Clarkson and Frank attended a screening of the premiere episode at the Edinburgh Filmhouse where they spoke about the international flavour of their ambitious new show, the ambiguous morality of the characters, and the extensive casting search that led them to Melissa George. Afterwards in the bar, Frank was kind enough to spend a few minutes with Geek Chocolate to talk about Hunted and his work on the FBI's most unusual cases.

Geek Chocolate - Hunted is quite a departure for someone who is best known for work focused on the supernatural. It's very hard edged, it's global, cinematic, densely plotted, and it's all your work, all eight episodes. You must be very proud. What was the inspiration?Frank Spotnitz - Well, I wanted to do something in Europe, and I thought a spy series was something that I could do that would be British through and through, but that Americans would watch. The spy genre is actually my favourite genre. It's what I grew up watching, more than anything else, more than science fiction even, spy stu ... [Continua a leggere]

Frank Spotnitz ('The X-Files') interview

CultBox caught up with The X-Files writer Frank Spotnitz today to chat about his new spy drama series, Hunted.

From the makers of Spooks, the eight-part series begins on BBC One this autumn and stars Melissa George (Grey's Anatomy) as a highly skilled operative for an elite private intelligence firm. Best known for writing nearly 50 episodes of The X-Files, Spotnitz was also co-executive producer of Millennium and co-wrote both The X-Files movies. Our full interview will go up next month, but in the meantime here's what Frank had to say on the subject of The X-Files... Were you disappointed that it’s not been possible to make a third X-Files film focusing on the 2012 alien invasion to be relea ... [Continua a leggere]

Frank Spotnitz on how 'The X-Files', Hitchcock paved the way for 'Hunted'

"When The X-Files started, the word 'mythology' was not in the vocabulary to describe television, and I think we kind of stumbled upon the whole method of telling stories that way by accident, because of Gillian Anderson's pregnancy at the end of season one," Frank Spotnitz considered how his old series paved the way for his new one, Hunted for Cinemax. "But it amazed me, because the Internet was just sort of coming online at that point, and I remember news groups that I would look at at the beginning of the second season of The X-Files to see how observant fans were. These are the die-hard f ... [Continua a leggere]

Writer/Producer Frank Spotnitz Talks His Desire to Make a Third X-FILES Movie and the Possibility of a MILLENNIUM Movie

The X-Files writer/producer Frank Spotnitz has created the compelling eight-episode international espionage series Hunted for Cinemax, to premiere on October 26th. The story follows Sam Hunter (Melissa George), a skilled operative for Byzantium, a secretive private firm involved in global intelligence and espionage, that may have personally been responsible for orchestrating an attempt on her life, leaving her with no idea who to trust. While at the TCA Press Tour, Collider spoke to Frank Spotnitz for this exclusive interview. We will run what he had to say about that series closer to its pre ... [Continua a leggere]

The X-Files writer Frank Spotnitz talks new UK spy series Hunted, working in the UK and a feature sequel to The X-Files

Frank Spotnitz talks to Screen about new UK spy-thriller series Hunted - produced by Kudos and BBC - and the UK as an exciting hub for big-budget TV.

The X-Files writer Frank Spotnitz was at MIPTV this week to discuss his new UK spy series Hunted, produced by Kudos Film & Television and the BBC for BBC One in the UK and HBO sister channel Cinemax in the US. Hunted, directed by SJ Clarkson, sees Melissa George star as a British spy working for a private intelligence agency. After an attempt on her life by a colleague, George’s character Sam goes undercover not knowing who tried to kill her or who to trust. Adam Rayner, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Stephen Dillane co-star in the thriller which according to US writer Spotnitz has a ... [Continua a leggere]

MIPTV 2012: Frank Spotnitz and Melissa George Take a Shot at the Spy Drama in 'Hunted'

The "X-Files" writer and the show’s lead actress sit down with THR to talk about one of the market's most talked about new shows.

You wouldn't know it to look at her, but Australian actress Melissa George —  sitting under the sun poolside in Cannes bejeweled in Chanel —  is sore from head to toe. “I can’t close my right fist,” she said, adding of her intense fight scenes: “I get really into it. I cant even remember the next day after a fight scene how violent it was, but I know from muscle spasms in my neck the next day.” As the lead in X-Files creator Frank Spotnitz’ latest small screen venture Hunted, George plays Sam, a spy who has just escaped an assassinati ... [Continua a leggere]

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