From the Houston Chronicle:
Lone Gunmen live again on DVD
By LANA BERKOWITZ
March 31, 2005
Six months before 9/11, the Lone Gunmen prevented a plane from flying into the World Trade Center.
The make-believe catastrophe was averted in the March 2001 pilot episode for the X-Files spinoff series.
That episode opens The Lone Gunmen DVD collection, which was released Tuesday. And, in the aftermath of the real World Trade Center tragedy, it's hard for the series' writers and producers to relive those scenes, which they discuss on the DVD.
"It's historically chilling," said Dean Haglund, who plays Langly. "There's plenty of commentary about that. So that's for history buffs and conspiracy lore alike. It's fascinating."
The Lone Gunmen were last seen on television in the 2002 Jump the Shark episode of The X-Files, which concluded at Arlington National Cemetery.
Langly, Frohike and Byers sacrifice themselves to save the world from a virus contamination. Sniff.
Are the computer hackers who trust no one really dead?
"Here's the thing," Haglund said. "When you stop a deadly virus in a Level 5 quarantine area, a Level 5 quarantine coffin is supposed to be fitted to your person. But all three coffins were the same size. And one of the gunmen is shorter than the other two. That's all I can say.
"No one's really dead in sci-fi anyway," he said.
Haglund keeps Langly, the longhaired blond with the funky T-shirts, alive with an improv act at sci-fiction conventions. He's writing a book about the 13-episode Lone Gunmen series, which aired in 2001.
"I'm actually drawing a comic book, because I fancy myself a bit of a cartoonist," Haglund said. "This is a true story about why The Lone Gunmen was canceled."
He's also working on a documentary about the South that he filmed on a journey before Christmas from his home in Los Angeles to Tampa, Fla.
And there's a feature film in the works. Haglund plans to begin principal photography in mid-April for a movie he wrote that will star Patrick McGoohan. It's about Dr. Royal Rife, who invented a machine designed to kill disease organisms with electronic frequencies. If you've never heard of Rife, conspiracy buffs will tell you it's because drug companies silenced him.
Click on the link to read the full article.