The good news for X-Files diehards is that any franchise worth, well, anything in Hollywood these days never dies. Carter embodies this wholeheartedly and has been quietly working on the next iteration of The X-Files, which is an animated spinoff series script recently ordered by Fox. The series, titled The X-Files: Albuquerque, centers on “an office of misfit agents who investigate cases too wacky, ridiculous or dopey for Scully and Mulder,” according to THR. Given the success of a similar project in Star Trek: Lower Decks, Fox’s animated history, and the X-Files’ popular monster-of-the-week format, Albuquerque is a logical next step for the franchise. In a recent interview with a Danish X-Files podcast called Sammensværgelsen (which translates in English to “The Conspiracy Podcast”), Carter gave his first comments on the X-Files animated series since the project was announced. “Right now, it’s still in the development stage,” Carter said. “I haven’t read a script. And so it’s really hard for me to say what my involvement will be, but I know this, it needs to be funny.” “[The] animated approach to the X-Files really came as a result of COVID 19, and a way of putting some people to work,” Carter told host Daniel Hartvig Nielsen. “I’ve always wanted to do an animated project and this seemed like an interesting opportunity.” The X-Files debuted in 1993 and ended its original run in 2002. It returned in 2016 for season 10 and 2018 for season 11, and ran for a total of 218 episodes. The X-Files one-off comedic episodes, including a handful written by Darin Morgan, are fan favorites and amongst the series’ most critically acclaimed installments. We’ll have more on The X-Files: Albuquerque as the project develops. In the meantime, we wrote a guide on how to keep your X-Files fandom alive. You can listen to Carter’s full podcast interview below.
