Having left their respective marks on the science-fiction/genre community with The X-Files, Space: Above and Beyond, and Millennium, Glen Morgan (as writer/producer) and James Wong (as writer/director) are now hard at work on their first feature film, Flight 180 for New Line Cinema. Scheduled for release in February of 2000, the supernatural horror film follows an average teenager (Devon Sawa) who is haunted by the premonition that the flight he is scheduled to take will end in tragedy.

Morgan and Wong graciously agreed to an interview for The 11th Hour's inaugural issue. I caught up with them on the last prep day of Flight 180 before shooting (which, incidentally, was also the day that Fox announced their fall schedule line-up -- one that did not include Morgan and Wong's newest pilot, The Wonder Cabinet). As an added bonus, actress Kristen Cloke, co-star of Flight 180 and nearly every other Morgan and Wong project (as well as Morgan's wife) also made an appearance. Together, the three discussed their work for such series as Space: Above and Beyond and Millennium, as well as shed light on some of their latest projects.

11th Hour: First off, when did you decide or know that you wanted to become filmmakers? Did you know when you were little kids? Was there ever one big movie that dramatically changed your life, or was it just a gradual appreciation?

Glen Morgan: I've always wanted to do it since I was eleven. Jim, after he went to college, has a different story.

James Wong: I was roommates with Glen in college and I was an engineering major for the first semester. You know, Glen would have these classes -- I mean, I would come home with three hours of homework and Glen would come home and watch a movie! But anyway, besides that, the real turning point was a movie called Apocalypse Now. We went to Cinerama Dome, which is a great theatre in LA. That was the first run of it and it didn't even have credits yet. It was just really cool. After watching that I realized that this was what I wanted to do. So that's when I decided to switch majors.

Morgan: The Cinerama Dome is kind of a unique theatre. You know, when we lived in San Diego, we had okay-sized screens there. But that movie was so great. We were in the dark, and because there were no credits, the first thing was just choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo [the sound of chopper rotors] all around the theatre. Then the trees came up... and then helicopters. The first time I watched that, my brain just shut down three-quarters of the way through. Great movie.

11th: I always hear about people writing various scripts, and then say to myself, "Hey, I was gonna do that!" Has there ever been a movie that you wish you had been the one to make first?

Morgan: When I was a kid -- Rollercoaster. Darin and I had that idea. You know that movie? With George Segal? It's a horrible movie. About a guy going around and blowing up amusement parks or something like that.

11th: Okay...

Morgan: Hey, I was a kid! You know, they say that five or six people are supposed to come up with the same idea at the same time. It's just a matter of who does something about it.