However dark The X-Files got, there was always a tone of wonder and hopefulness, in a way that I think the last movie lost hold of. “We thought it was probably over,” says Duchovny. I’ve been doing it for so long, it’s a part of my thought process.”īut after the last movie disappointed, 20th Century Fox’s film studio wasn’t interested in another X-Files installment. Every time I open up the newspaper, I see a new X-Files story. “It wasn’t as if I let those characters go for eight years,” he says. Creator Chris Carter, who spent much of the last decade exploring other pursuits (including a fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara), wrote a third movie-which has yet to see the light of day. The X-Files, which aired from 1993 to 2002, had been dormant ever since the second film, released in 2008, was met with lukewarm response. Is this really how I want to spend my life, chasing monsters?”Ĭue the chorus of several million X-Files fans, all screaming in unison, “Yes!” “And I’m finding it hard to maintain the enthusiasm of my youth. “I’m a middle-aged man,” he tells Scully while tossing out X-Files cases that have since been revealed as publicity stunts, frat pranks and practical jokes. For one thing, an older and wiser Mulder is wrestling with the kind of doubt that comes with having seen everything yet still having no answers. On a breezy July day, in an abandoned mental hospital just outside of Vancouver, Duchovny (Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully) have been transported back to the basement of the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.Ī lot has happened in the 22 years since Mulder the truther and Scully the skeptic first paired up to investigate unexplainable paranormal phenomena. (The show moves to its regular timeslot-Mondays at 8/7c-the next day.) Soon, he’s making the shot consistently: “I can go pro,” he jokes.Īnything is possible, including the return of The X-Files, shooting six new episodes to premiere on Fox following the NFL’s NFC championship game on Sunday, January 24.
After a few throws, one of Duchovny’s pencils sticks, right above the words I WANT TO BELIEVE. Slapped on a small door is a nameplate designating this the office of Fox Mulder. You know the one.īankers’ boxes stuffed with folders marked “X-Files” line the wall.
Sitting behind a large metal desk, he leans forward, picks up a pile of pencils and, one by one, starts throwing them at a familiar poster. David Duchovny is clad in the classic FBI G-man outfit: government-issue blue shirt with a short red tie.
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