The X-Files at EW Fest: 7 things we learned

X-Files fans got a glimpse inside the writers’ room on Saturday at EW Fest. As executive producer/ writer Glen Morgan, who is returning for the show’s new season in January, recalled, the writers rarely broke stories in a group, working instead out of boxy offices or each other’s backyards. But out of the series’ regular group of writers came a number of TV’s biggest influencers, including Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad) and Frank Spotnitz (Man in the High Castle).

 

Series creator Chris Carter joined Glen Morgan and fellow writer/ producer Darin Morgan onstage, in a panel moderated by EW’s own Jeff Jensen, to look back on the experience of writing The X-Files and tease what fans can expect from the series’ return. Here’s what we learned:

1. Carter denies rumors that Mulder and Scully have married.

2. Mulder and Scully’s partnership will be reignited — even if it’s only for work.

3. Early notes from Fox asked Carter to ramp up the sexual tension.

4. Carter calls Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny’s chemistry a “miracle.”

5. The show never had a series bible.

6. The writers pulled ideas from everywhere.     

7. The X-Files never left its writers.