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The revival series also introduced two new characters who
almost seemed to be younger versions of Mulder and Scully; will we be
seeing more of them?
You know, Fox had come to me at one point and said would you be
interested in doing this without Mulder and Scully, and I hadn’t ever
thought about that, and actually I don’t know that I would do that. But
it was an interesting question and so I thought, I’m going to play with
that idea, and introduce younger mirror images of Mulder and Scully and
see what that does to the story-telling, and I found an episode where I
thought it suited that approach, and I found two terrific actors to play
those parts, and so I think it was a gamble that paid off.
So it was partly about mirroring Mulder and Scully back
towards themselves, and developing their characters by introducing these
new ones?
Yes, and while we don’t have any hold on those actors beyond our
desire to see them again, I think that they’ve now entered the accepted X-Files fandom.
The revival series ended on quite a cliff-hanger, so can we expect to see more of Mulder and Scully any time soon?
Yes, I’ve already got the call from Fox saying they want more
episodes. I think now it’s just a matter of figuring out when we can all
co-ordinate our schedules to do it. So yes, I think absolutely you’re
going to see more, and of course, that means you’re going to see how we
get ourselves out of that very steep, sharp cliff!
We got to the end and thought, that can’t be the end of it! Presumably that’s how you wanted us to feel?
Yes, well it’s a tradition of The X-Files, ending on a
cliff-hanger like that, and I have to say that as cliff-hangers go, this
was a big one for us. People are asking me crazy questions about it,
asking me who’s driving the spaceship, I thought that was one of the
craziest questions I’ve ever heard.