{"id":10051,"date":"2015-06-25T14:14:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=10051"},"modified":"2015-06-25T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T18:14:03","slug":"the-x-files-returns-in-ews-new-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/25\/the-x-files-returns-in-ews-new-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"The X-Files Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On an abandoned farm on the outskirts of Vancouver B.C., we found paranormal detectives Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) investigating the curious case of a possible alien abductee (played by Annet Mahendru of The Americans) at the behest of a most curious ally, the host of a conservative talk show (Community\u2019s Joel McHale). Of course, the last time we saw our heroes (the 2008 feature film The X-Files: I Want To Believe), Mulder and Scully were out of the bizarre-adventures business. He was living on the fringe, she was a doctor working at a Catholic hospital; they were sometimes lovers who just wanted the weird world to leave them alone. Much has changed for them since then.<\/p>\n

\u201cMulder\u2019s not in a great place,\u201d says Duchovny, looking shabby in gray tee, shoes without shoelaces, and much stubble. \u201cHe\u2019s wearing bad jeans, so you can just extrapolate from my wardrobe. He\u2019s in a dark, dark place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scully\u2019s looking more put-together in a skirt suit and high heels. \u201cI like where we find Mulder and Scully in their relationship,\u201d says Anderson, adding that she\u2019s equally engaged by the political resonance of the story Chris Carter has conceived for the revival. \u201cI also like the area of zeitgeist that we step in to. It\u2019s on point and raises some very interesting issues. And question marks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter \u2014 whose original series tapped into the anxious strains of 1990s culture \u2014 says the new series is inspired by new century concerns. \u201cThe X-Files ended right after 9\/11,\u201d says Carter. \u201cA lot has happened since then. A lot of rollback of rights and liberties in the name of our protection. We\u2019re being spied on now, we\u2019re being lied to \u2014 all things that, for me, remind me of when I grew up, which was right around Watergate. I think we\u2019re in similar and much more dire times right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new X-Files isn\u2019t all scary political allegory. In addition to a hot take on the show\u2019s conspiracy mythology, fans will get monster-of-the-week episodes from Carter and three other key writers from the original series, James Wong, Glen Morgan, and Darin Morgan, whose inspired, idiosyncratic scripts from back in the day (\u201cClyde Bruckman\u2019s Final Repose\u201d; \u201cJose Chung\u2019s \u2018From Outer Space\u2019\u201d) earned him a cult following. The title of his revival offering: \u201cMulder and Scully Meet The Were-Man.\u201d And sorry, internet, but you\u2019re wrong: The second episode, entitled \u201cHome Again,\u201d won\u2019t be a sequel to the infamously queasy horror opus \u201cHome,\u201d a lunatic love story about deformed, inbred children and the limbless mother they keep under their bed.<\/p>\n

While you can expect to see some old faces (including Mitch Pileggi as FBI boss Skinner and William B. Davis as the nefarious Cigarette Smoking Man), don\u2019t expect to see the same old monsters. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to reboot any of the old favorites, although it was something we all thought about,\u201d says Carter. \u201cThese are all brand new stories. We hope to scare you in brand new ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: The X-Files returns in EW’s new issue<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On an abandoned farm on the outskirts of Vancouver B.C., we found paranormal detectives Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) investigating the curious case of a possible alien abductee (played by Annet Mahendru of The Americans) at the behest of a most curious ally, the host of a conservative talk show (Community\u2019s Joel McHale). Of course, the last time we saw our heroes (the 2008 feature film The X-Files: I Want To Believe), Mulder and Scully were out of the bizarre-adventures business. He was living on the fringe, she was a doctor working at a Catholic hospital; they were sometimes lovers who just wanted the weird world to leave them alone. Much has changed for them since then. \u201cMulder\u2019s not in a great place,\u201d says Duchovny, looking shabby in gray tee, shoes without shoelaces, and much stubble. \u201cHe\u2019s wearing bad jeans, so you can just extrapolate from my wardrobe. He\u2019s in a dark, dark place.\u201d Scully\u2019s looking more put-together in a skirt suit and high heels. \u201cI like where we find Mulder and Scully in their relationship,\u201d says Anderson, adding that she\u2019s equally engaged by the political resonance of the story Chris Carter has conceived for the revival. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1779,1960,1968,1969],"class_list":["post-10051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-files","tag-the-x-files","tag-x-files","tag-xfiles","tag-xfilesrevival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}