Chris Carter Announces ‘Tweaked’ X-Files Series – But No Cartoon
Carter says he thinks the series would need to be significantly tweaked for current audiences. “We’re so steeped in conspiracies now,” he said. “The X-Files dealt with a central conspiracy, but now the world is so full of conspiracies that I think that it would be a different show.”
The original X-Files series is available for streaming on Disney+. (And Wikipedia notes there was also a six-episode 10th season ran in 2016 and a 10-episode 11th in 2018.) There was also a Lone Gunmen spin-off series in 2001 (co-created by Vince Gilligan, who went on to produce and create Breaking Bad).
The CBC also reports that a documentary about the show will be released this fall. “Superfans Lauren Krattiger and Carly Blake have created The X-Files Fan Retrospective, where they conducted more than 90 interviews with crew members, cast and fans to memorialize the show and its impact.”
But don’t get your hopes up for an X-Files cartoon. “A few years ago it was announced that Chris Carter was developing an X-Files animated series titled The X-Files: Albuquerque…” writes GeekTyrant, “but unfortunately, it’s no longer moving forward at Fox.”
It was going to revolve around an “office full of misfit agents who investigate X-Files cases too wacky, ridiculous or downright dopey for Mulder and Scully to bother with.” It’s explained that these agents are basically the X-Files’ B-team.
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