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X-FILES CREATOR IN HOSPITAL


By Ian Markham-Smith - Posted on 07 September 2008

     X-Files TV and movie series creator Chris Carter has been admitted to hospital suffering from exhaustion.
     The 51-year-old writer, producer, and director was quietly admitted to a secret medical centre on Tuesday after being taken ill, it has emerged.
     "He is being treated for physical exhaustion and an acute sleeping disorder," a source close to Carter said.
     It is understood that Carter had over-worked himself on several different projects during the last two years to the point where he became completely exhausted.
     He has been making the recently released The X-Files: I Want to Believe movie, which sees David Duchovny return to his role as Agent Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson once again playing Dana Scully, as well as another secret project.
     The source said: "His stay in hospital stems from Chris working on multiple films back to back over a two year period."
     As well as the X-Files film, it is understood that Carter has been working on a movie called Fencewalker, which is described as a covert project he is believed to have begun shooting earlier this year.
     Carter is expected to recover quickly.
     Ironically Duchovny is also currently in a rehabilitation hospital being treated for sex addiction.