The truth is fans of Mulder and Scully have never been more riled up than now, as Fox is getting ready to air a hotly anticipated miniseries revival for "The X-Files."
And while the upcoming six-episode series will not be out until 2016, Fox is easily pumping up the hype with a brand new trailer for "The X-Files." The trailer is pretty short - don't blink if you don't want to miss Mulder and Scully's two-second appearance as they peruse the dark corners of what seems to be an abandoned building.
The 15-second trailer opens with a group of men with flashlights searching for something on the ground, then cuts to a frame showing two creatures silhouetted in black against the light coming in through an open door. They are lying on the ground, dragged along by a third man, and one of them leaves behind a dark trail of blood.
Then we see what looks to be the huge arm of a medical machine, followed by booted men stepping over a torn down poster that says "I want to believe," a reference to the 2008 X-Files movie "The X-Files: I Want To Believe."
Before the trailer ends, Fox is kind-hearted enough to give us a glimpse of FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, both played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson from the original "The X-Files" series that ran a good nine years from 1993 to 2002. For a few precious moments, Mulder and Scully show up on screen stealthily creeping in the dark, with torchlights in hand and Scully holding a gun.
Duchovny and Anderson have earlier been rumored to return to film the miniseries, but it has only been recently that their schedules opened up at the same time for filming, which has now begun in Vancouver. Other original cast members to join the crime-fighting duo are Mitch Pileggi, who plays Skinner, and William B. Davis, who plays The Smoking Man.
"We're going to tell the "X-Files' the way that we've always told them; we will of course set them in the time and place that they exist," Chris Carter, writer and executive producer of the miniseries, says. "We're telling contemporary stories about contemporary situations, true to Mulder and Scully's characters and their relationship and the passage of time."
"The X-Files" will air with a two-night premiere on Jan. 24 right after the NFC Championship Game on Sunday, followed by the second episode on Monday at its normal time slot of 8 p.m.
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