So, looks like the X-Files universe is set to get a bit bigger.
Fans will know that The X-Files was also part of the Millennium universe and had its own official spin-off series, The Lone Gunmen, so it’s already a pretty big world… but its set to get bigger still.
A new animated series, The X-Files: Albuquerque, will come from series creator Chris Carter who will be producing but not showrunning and is being developed at Fox. Oh, and it’s animated. And, em, a comedy.
Wut?
The series “will not revolve around David Duchovny‘s Mulder and Gillian Anderson‘s Scully. Rather, the potential series will centre 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. They’re essentially the X-Files’ B-team.”
Netflix’s Paradise PD’s Rocky Russo and Jeremy Sosenko will write the pilot episode.
After The X-Files’s revival a few years ago the series seemed to be pretty much finished with no further plans in place to bring back Mulder and Scully, however, at the time, Carter said: “I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be more X-Files, in some shape or form. I think there are lots more stories to tell and ways to tell them. I’m leaving this as a giant cliffhanger, and Gillian has announced that she’s not coming back. Hard-core X-Files fans know there have been no real endings on the show.”
I have zero issues with The X-Files having an animated spin-off and I don’t even care if it’s slightly tongue-in-cheek, I just hope it’s better than the new Star Trek animated series Lower Decks and either delivers the laughs or the universe and, above all, respects the show that created it.
But I can’t help feeling this will be a one and done type of deal.
What say you all?
Source: TVLine
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