In a recent interview with Geoffrey Macnab for Indepent.co.uk, Carter spoke of the six new chapter in the series being filmed in Vancouver. They will be headlined by the agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who come back to the small screen looking disclosures refer directly to Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, in the era Obama.
“You can imagine I was the least shocked person in the world,” Carter
reflects on recent revelations about US government-sanctioned
eavesdropping and cover-ups. “It is not surprising to me at all… those
assertions and allegations are what I think The X-Files was built on.”
In the new series, Carter promises that he and his team will “monkey” with The X-Files
mythology “and give you a spin and twist on that”. There will be a
combination of what he calls mythology episodes and the stand-alone
“so-called monster episodes”. Six episodes doesn’t seem that much of a
stretch, given that the first season of The X-Files consisted of 25 episodes, shot over a year, and the second season was 24.