Chris Carter on How the Real World Has Caught Up With ‘The X-Files’
X-Files fever is among us, with intense anticipation for Ryan Coogler’s prospective reboot and series creator Chris Carter’s R-rated director’s cut of the 2008 X-Files feature film, which arrived a decade after the franchise’s first movie and six years after the show’s original run had ended. Coogler’s project is not yet a sure thing (fingers crossed!), but Carter’s is coming to Hulu and Disney+ on August 14. Ahead of its release, io9 talked to Carter about The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn, as well as his take on the eerily prescient series’ place in sci-fi history.
- ▪X-Files fever is among us, with intense anticipation for Ryan Coogler’s prospective reboot and series creator Chris Carter’s R-rated director’s cut of the 2008 X-Files feature film, which arrived a decade after the franchise’s first movie a
- ▪Coogler’s project is not yet a sure thing (fingers crossed!), but Carter’s is coming to Hulu and Disney+ on August 14.
- ▪Ahead of its release, io9 talked to Carter about The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn, as well as his take on the eerily prescient series’ place in sci-fi history.
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X-Files fever is among us, with intense anticipation for Ryan Coogler’s prospective reboot and series creator Chris Carter’s R-rated director’s cut of the 2008 X-Files feature film, which arrived a decade after the franchise’s first movie and six years after the show’s original run had ended. Coogler’s project is not yet a sure thing (fingers crossed!), but Carter’s is coming to Hulu and Disney+ on August 14. Ahead of its release, io9 talked to Carter about The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn, as well as his take on the eerily prescient series’ place in sci-fi history. Cheryl Eddy, io9: The director’s cut is billed as being more horror-oriented than the original.
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