Chris Carter Is ‘Anxiously Awaiting’ Ryan Coogler’s ‘X-Files’

The X-Files is having a well-deserved renaissance lately, between series creator Chris Carter’s upcoming director’s cut of the second feature film, retitled The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn and Ryan Coogler’s Hulu pilot for a new version of the show. (The new Lego set is also highly covetable.) With Vrach Frankenshteyn coming to Hulu and Disney+ August 14, Carter is making the interview rounds, and of course he weighed in on Coogler’s fresh take.

It hasn’t yet been picked up to series, but Carter still has high hopes—even if, as he admits, he doesn’t know much about it despite being listed in its credits.

“I’m anxiously awaiting his version,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “My name is on it as executive producer, but I have done exactly nothing. I am, like everyone else out there, excited about what it may be.”

He means it! “My choice was not to read the script, because I wanted to watch it like everyone else,” Carter said.

However, he’s not ready to put Scully and Mulder, the FBI agents he created who are played by Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, completely behind him. The director’s cut of I Want to Believe is just his latest revisiting of the series, which returned for 10th and 11th seasons over a decade after the original series wrapped up in 2002.

“There was a big revelation at the end of the season finale in season 11 that Scully is pregnant,” Carter said to THR. “Some people were horrified, outraged. They hated me. It was big … This is taken on the chin because I have a bigger idea in mind. I think that time will tell.”

However, fans will have to wait, because Carter is stepping aside for now to make way for Coogler’s project. “I don’t want to do anything to compete with that,” he said. “I don’t want to do anything to get in the way of that. I don’t want to play off of that. I want to continue to tell and finish the story arc that I have in mind.”

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