"X-Files" stars David Duchovny and Mitch Pileggi, along with the sci-fi horror drama series creator Chris Carter, attended New York Comic-Con on Oct. 10, Saturday, in which they shared some spoilers of the show's upcoming revival in January 2016. [SPOILERS ALERT: Read at your own risk.]
During the panel at New York Comic-Con, an audience member asked Duchovny, Pileggi and Carter about their views about life on other planets. Pileggi said he totally believes in extraterrestrial life while Carter said he wants to believe. On the other hand, Duchovny joked that he is a Belieber.
The "X-Files" revival premiere starts with a Roswell-esque framing device with a landing of a mysterious spacecraft in the desert circa 1947. Eventually, contemporary events will show long-haired Fox Mulder (Duchovny), who is out of the FBI game.
While Fox Mulder is living a life of country isolation, Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) works as a surgeon at Our Lady of Sorrows hospital. The two are neither professionally nor romantically together.
However, when an off-camera Walter Skinner (Pileggi) recommends they meet the Internet media sensation Tad O'Malley (Joel McHale), Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have to reconnect.
Soon, Tad O'Malley takes Fox Mulder and Dana Scully to a woman who says she has been abducted and Walter Skinner turns up, as well.
"We did this show for the hard-core fans, and even though we tried to make it accessible to viewers, (the devoted fans) are the reason we did it," Los Angeles Times quoted Carter as saying after the presentation of the first episode of the new "X-Files."
Meanwhile, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Carter said the "X-Files" revival episodes are "brand new fresh stories" and "nothing that was sitting on the shelf" after a 13-year hiatus.