Question: The Colonists are an extraterrestrial species and the primary group of antagonists in the 1998 American science fiction thriller film directed by whom?
Context: The X-Files (also known as The X-Files: Fight the Future) is a 1998 American science fiction thriller film directed by Rob Bowman.  Chris Carter wrote the screenplay.  The story is by Carter and Frank Spotnitz.  It is the first feature film based on Carter's television series "The X-Files, " which revolves around fictional unsolved cases called the X-Files and the characters solving them.  Five main characters from the television series appear in the film: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, John Neville, and William B. Davis reprise their respective roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, Well-Manicured Man, and the Cigarette-Smoking Man.  The film was promoted with the tagline "Fight the Future". The Colonists are an extraterrestrial species and are also the primary group of antagonists in the science fiction television show, "The X-Files", as well as the first "X-Files" feature film.  The mystery revolving around their identity and purpose is slowly revealed across the course of the series.  In the series' plot, the Colonists are collaborating with a group of United States government officials known as the Syndicate in a plan to colonize the Earth, hence their name. Pandemic is a 2016 American science fiction thriller film directed by John Suits and written by Dustin T. Benson.  Rachel Nichols stars as a doctor who leads a group to find survivors of a worldwide pandemic.  The film is shot in a first-person POV, similar to first-person shooter video games. The Cardassians are an extraterrestrial species in the "Star Trek" science fiction franchise.  First introduced in the 1991 "" episode "", the species originated on the fictional Alpha Quadrant planet, Cardassia Prime.  Cardassians were the dominant species in an interstellar empire known as the Cardassian Union during the 24th century, although they are not confirmed to have ruled any other species aside from, for fifty years, the Bajorans.  The Cardassians later played a key role in the storyline of the "" series as allies of the Dominion in the Dominion War.  Several Cardassian characters, including Elim Garak and Gul Dukat, are prominently featured. The Power is a 1968 American science fiction thriller film from MGM, produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin (his final film), that stars George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette.  It is based on the science fiction novel "The Power" by Frank M. Robinson. Sphere is a 1998 American science fiction thriller film directed and produced by Barry Levinson.  It stars Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson.  "Sphere" was based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton.  The film was released in the United States on February 13, 1998. Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and Leigh Taylor-Young.  Edward G. Robinson appears in his final film.  Loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel "Make Room!  Make Room! " by Harry Harrison, it combines both police procedural and science fiction genres; the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman and a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in suffering from pollution, poverty, overpopulation, euthanasia and depleted resources. Futureworld is a 1976 American science fiction thriller film directed by Richard T. Heffron and written by Mayo Simon and George Schenck.  It is a sequel to the 1973 Michael Crichton film "Westworld", and is the second installment in the "Westworld" franchise.  The film stars Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill, Stuart Margolin, John Ryan, and Yul Brynner, who makes an appearance in a dream sequence.  Other than Brynner, none of the cast members from the original film appear, and original writer-director Crichton was not involved. Species II (also known as Species II: Offspring and Species II: Origins) is a 1998 American science fiction horror thriller film, sequel to the 1995 film "Species".  The film was directed by Peter Medak and starring Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger, all of whom reprise their roles from the first film.  The plot has Patrick Ross, (Justin Lazard) the astronaut son of a senator (James Cromwell), being infected by an extraterrestrial virus during a mission to Mars and causing the deaths of many women upon his return.  To stop him, the scientists who created the human-extraterrestrial hybrid Sil in the original "Species" try using a more docile clone of hers, Eve (Henstridge).  The film was followed by "Species III" (2004). The Signal is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by William Eubank and co-written with Carlyle Eubank and David Frigerio.  The film stars Brenton Thwaites and Laurence Fishburne.  The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on June 13, 2014.  The film is among an increasing number of low-budget, independent science fiction films to be included at the Sundance Film Festival in recent years.
Answer: Rob Bowman