The X-Files is back and haunting, that is a fact! In the past months, numerous articles kept hinting at the idea of a new The X-Files season, with the actors’ confessions about how much they would enjoy retrieving their past roles as Mulder and Scully. It has been confirmed, The X-Files is back and the only vital condition for it to regain its past popularity has been accomplished: The X-Files is back with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. The television series has been announced to return as a six-episode limited series thirteen years (lucky number) after its ending, according to Deadline.
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will be back along with series creator/executive producer Chris Carter for a special season, comprised of only six episodes after what seemed to be a life time. Although there is no certain information regarding the plot or the central theme of each episode, six new and riveting X-Files stories will be back into our homes. Chris Carter’s opinion about the long time away seems to accurately summarize that period of time: ‘’I think of it as a 13-year commercial break’’ and continues by emphasizing the importance of the television series’ revival in this particular moment: ‘’The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger, a perfect time to tell these six stories’’. That time span so-called a commercial break was not necessarily a motionless one, in X-Files terms. In the interim, Mulder and Scully gifted us with two different movies, the first in 1998 (whilst the series was still broadcast) and the other one, entitled The X-Files: I Want to Believe, years later (in 2008).
Fox TV Group chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman said their opinion on the matter, giving The X-Files a proper welcome: ‘’We had the privilege of working with Chris on all nine seasons of The X-Files – one of the most rewarding creative experiences of our careers”. Remembering about the past triggered the emotions of an entire generation: ‘’The X-Files was not only a seminal show for both the studio and the network, it was a worldwide phenomenon that shaped pop culture – yet remained a true gem for the legions of fans who embraced it from the beginning.”