After a rather disappointing and messy end to season 11, hopes for season 12 of The X-Files are all but dashed – here’s why…
The X-Files has been rebooted a couple of times now and there are plans for an animated series going on right now at Disney. The show is apparently called X-Files: Albuquerque and will be based on a rag-tag office of agents that investigate strange happenings in the area.
Chris Carter, the creator of The X-Files, confirmed the show is in development back in 2020 but not much has been heard about it since. Carter is listed as an executive producer but told one Danish podcast, Sammensværgelsen, that he hasn’t seen any scripts so he couldn’t possibly comment on it.Meanwhile, Gillian Anderson hasn’t been afraid of lamenting how the series wrapped up during its current final season. I won’t go into spoiler territory here but things ended on a massive cliffhanger, there were some truly awful plot twists, and the pacing and plot of the final episodes were all over the place, lacking the quality fans have come to expect from the long-running show.
The fact that Gillian Anderson isn’t interested in doing more X-Files is a big deal, for fans and for the show in general. But X Files creator Chris Carter is confident there is life left in the franchise. Carter has stated publicly that he believes there are “more stories to tell, with Gillian or without”, indicating that plans are indeed afoot for yet another reboot.Fans really didn’t like the way the final season of The X-Files ended, and I don’t think anyone could blame them it was pretty awful. Usually, actors stand with the creatives behind the show but Anderson has categorically stated that he did not like the final arc for her character and that if she was ever to return there would have to be new writers involved. Emphasis on “ever” too.
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