The truth, as ever, is out there… The first of the 6 new episodes of the show was previewed in the USA on Saturday in a hall at the New York Comic Con.
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FOX Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in “The X-Files” (“Hungry”, 1999). And yes, there are definitely going to be appearances by old favourites such as William B. Davis’ Cigarette Smoking Man, despite his seeming death by giant bloomin’ missile in the series finale back in 2002.
“We do it in an interesting way”, The X-Files creator Chris Carter said. “It’s the perfect time to be telling “X-Files” stories”, said Carter, adding that the post-9/11 world “gave us a lot of stuff to write about”.
The miniseries has only been scheduled for six episodes but with some demand from the fans and high ratings, we might be all able to expect a second season.
Fox Mulder is beaten down by the years of searching for the truth, with aliens and UFOs being punchlines made by President Obama, and Mulder’s “I Want To Believe” poster is even symbolically ripped in half. The relationship between the two has soured since we last saw them, and Mulder is the worse for wear as a result.
The pace of the action has picked up in the intervening years, however, with one particularly dizzying, rapid-fire monologue from Mulder, cut with spooled images of nuclear weapons and paranormal happenings. “I lost myself in that character [on Criminal Minds] so much”, he said. It then showed Dana Scully, who has also left the FBI and is now working as a surgeon at Our Lady of Sorrows hospital.
Duchovny told the crowd he was “grateful to all you guys and to [Carter] for making it possible to come back and play this character again”. While the season premiere and finale build on the series’ mythology, others will be scary, funny standalone episodes, Carter says. Carter said of his decision, “They’re not living under the same roof and that was a conscious thing”, he said. The two are still in touch, though, and Scully is given good reason to touch base with her ex. Through Skinner, she’s been informed that a prominent talk show host/conspiracy nut, Tad O’Malley (Joel McHale), is eager to meet them. After such an extended absence, this still feels fascinating and exciting – especially with a brand new conspiracy driving the story.
How Mulder and Scully will solve the mysteries before them and how the Lone Gunmen will make a comeback will be clear once “The X-Files” begins airing. Unfortunately, the Mulder and Scully duo was not complete, although Gillian Anderson did send her regrets via a video message that was shown to the audiences in attendance.
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For more, tune in January24, 2016.
