Ahead of The X-Files season 11's DVD and Blu-ray release on Monday the 23rd of July (with certain delays), Chris Carter talk to Den of Geek about the show and a possible twelfth season.
Right now, according to his own words, "it’s up in the air, in terms of Gillian’s interest in doing the show." "I think she’s stated that she’s finished her run. That certainly changes things, and also the sale of Fox to either Disney or Comcast – it looks like Disney now – I think that will change things, and certainly they’ll be looking at the show and wondering what its future would be. So right now we’re playing a wait-and-see with all those variables."
Beside the fact that there are still stories to tell in The X-Files, and with the existence of a third film script, it's about Gillian’s involvement. "For me, The X-Files is Mulder and Scully, so even though we did the show without David, without Mulder, for a time, I always felt like her science was the centre of the show. In the end, it is a science show, and it makes it all-important", he explained.
We’ve seen some really interesting developments in the relationship between Mulder and Scully in season 11. Now that Scully’s pregnant again, their relationship development in a hypothetical future season/film will be presented "in real time" – as same as everything else in the series, so far. "I would imagine that if we come back, there would be a passage of time, and Scully would have had that baby – or not. We might find out things about that child that are unexpected as well, so there are lots of unanswered questions and interesting things there."