Frank Spotnitz

Frank Spotnitz (born November 17, 1960 in Camp Zama, Zama, Japan) is an US-American screenwriter, television producer and director, who also worked on tv series like The X-Files, MillenniuM and the first season of The Man in the High Castle.
Spotnitz has worked for many years as a journalist for United Press International, the Associated Press and Entertainment Weekly. In 1994 he was a relatively inexperienced screenwriter (he only had one credit for the film Sunset After Dark) when he started working on The X-Files . His first collaboration was the two-parter Colony/End Game of the second season. Over time he became the writing partner of X-Files creator Chris Carter, especially writing mytharc episodes.
After The X-Files, Spotnitz wrote some episodes of the series Robbery Homicide Division and was 2005 the creator of the short-lived series Night Stalker. In 2008 he wrote the story for three comic adventures of Mulder and Scully, which were published at IDW. In 2011 he acted as an executive producer and screenwriter for the second season of the series Strike Back.
He also developed the spy series Hunted around 2011 in which Gillian Anderson was originally to take the lead role and who was also heavily involved in the development of the main character Sam. The series premiered in October 2012 on BBC One.
In 2013, he founded his production company Big Light Productions, worked on a spin-off of Hunted, and on the first season of The Man In The High Castle, the series adaptation of Philip K. Dick's dystopian novel of the same name that is produced by Amazon Studios.
For the third season of the European co-produced series Crossing Lines he acted as a showrunner. Since 2016 he has worked as executive producer of the series Medici: Masters of Florence and Ransom.
==Fannish Engagement==
===As a Shipper===
In the X-Files fandom, Spotnitz is perceived as a shipper and a big supporter of MSR.
===Contact With Fans===
Sponitz' website at biglight.com was first created back in 2007 as a NING network where Spotnitz answered fan questions about The X-Files, MillenniuM and The Lone Gunmen in a section called mailbag.https://web.archive.org/web/20161025102018/http://aviquijada.com/author/admin/page/126/ His current website still includes as fan section.http://www.biglight.com/network
He also release a large number of official high resolution production stills and promotional photos from The X-Files and both movies.
He huge engagement earned him the nick name Uncle Frank in the fandom.
Together with Chris Carter, he attended several X-Files Conventions, official and fan-run events. He also send a surprise video message to the fan-run X-CON in 2009.
He was also involved in a fan-run charity action called the 2009 Frankenbear Worldwide Tour,Fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century edited by Kristin M. Barton, Jonathan Malcolm Lampley, page 100 ff where a stuffed teddy bear named after Spotnitz was sent from all over the world from one X-Phile to the another to raise money for the UCLA-Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center'. Frankenbear's last stop was in November 2009, where the bear was given to Spotnitz together with a scrap book.Frankenbear Facebook profile The action originated by XFilesNews and the fan group SkypePhiles.
In 2002, Spotnitz gave an extensive interview to fan, Deslea. See Blondie's Ratcave Interview with Frank Spotnitz. The topic was the mytharc and the characters Krycek and Marita.
In an interview for the website thejunction.de he said the following
===Tribute to Fanfiction Writer Leyla Harrison===
==Further reading==
* The E-Files
* The X-Files Lexicon Interview with Sarah Stegall
* Written on the Body: Real Life and the Character of Dana Scully‎
* How Horny X-Files Lovers Created a New Type of Online Fandom
* Blondie's Ratcave Interview with Frank Spotnitz
==Links==
===Official===
* http://www.biglight.com/ Big Light Productions official website
* https://www.facebook.com/FrankSpotnitz/ official Facebook page
* https://twitter.com/FrankSpotnitz official Twitter account
==References==
Category:X-Files
Category:The Lone Gunmen
Category:Millennium
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