EW Exclusive: A First look of Mulder & Scully's Revival
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- Written by: Avi Quijada | Editor-In-Chief
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The goodies are starting to come out and we couldn't be more excited!
As we'd reported last week, Jeff Jensen from Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive first look into the revival of The X-Files. This is the scoop.
First off the pictures!
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Image Credit: Ed Araquel/FOX & Eric Ray Davidson/EW
According to their article:
On an abandoned farm on the outskirts of Vancouver B.C., we found paranormal detectives Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) investigating the curious case of a possible alien abductee (played by Annet Mahendru of The Americans) at the behest of a most curious ally, the host of a conservative talk show (Community’s Joel McHale). Of course, the last time we saw our heroes (the 2008 feature film The X-Files: I Want To Believe), Mulder and Scully were out of the bizarre-adventures business. He was living on the fringe, she was a doctor working at a Catholic hospital; they were sometimes lovers who just wanted the weird world to leave them alone. Much has changed for them since then.
“Mulder’s not in a great place,” says Duchovny, looking shabby in gray tee, shoes without shoelaces, and much stubble. “He’s wearing bad jeans, so you can just extrapolate from my wardrobe. He’s in a dark, dark place.”
Scully’s looking more put-together in a skirt suit and high heels. “I like where we find Mulder and Scully in their relationship,” says Anderson, adding that she’s equally engaged by the political resonance of the story Chris Carter has conceived for the revival. “I also like the area of zeitgeist that we step in to. It’s on point and raises some very interesting issues. And question marks.
Carter — whose original series tapped into the anxious strains of 1990s culture — says the new series is inspired by new century concerns. “The X-Filesended right after 9/11,” says Carter. “A lot has happened since then. A lot of rollback of rights and liberties in the name of our protection. We’re being spied on now, we’re being lied to — all things that, for me, remind me of when I grew up, which was right around Watergate. I think we’re in similar and much more dire times right now.”
Other details included in the article confirm that Darin Morgan will pen a MOTW titled "Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Man". You can read the whole article here. And don't forget to pick up a copy, or two, from newstands on June 26th.
The X-Files Global Rewatch
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With The X-Files series ending over 10 years ago, who isn't a little a rusty on the Mythology arc and could use a much needed and anticipated refresher course of the series? What better way to prepare for the X-Files Revival than to re-watch the entire series with us! As we previously reported, Curtis F. over at Reverb Press planned out a calendar to be able to watch the whole show before the upcoming Season 10 premiere.
But we at XFN want to take this re-watch one step further. Following their daily planning, XFN will watch and live tweet most of the episodes. For this, we've joined ranks with some of the best of the best, like #XFScienceSundays' Dr. Joselyn Rojas and the always great TV Mouse who will be joining an interesting list of guest hosts. So this is the plan: starting on July 4th, 2015, you can watch one episode a day - movies included - and be ready for the revival premiering on January 24th, 2016. We’ve already posted our programming for the entire month of July on our great calendar at XFN. Check out the schedule for our hosted sessions!
We're super excited to take on this great and fun endeavor, and guess what? You can also be an active part of it!
We are inviting all philes, new and old to the fandom, to not only join in the fun as we live tweet on our planned sessions, but to also organize your own live tweeting if you can't join us or if we aren't hosting an episode that day. XFN will retweet the best tweets of each day during our hosted live tweeting or at 8pm. PST on those days without hosted sessions. If you want your commentary to be featured as part of the global rewatch, check the hashtag for each specific daily episode on our calendar.
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David Duchovny Headed to the Walk of Fame
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After more than twenty years on television, David Duchovny is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! David will be joining a slew of others in the Class of 2016. He is of course in the television category and his star will bear the standard TV icon. To read more, head over to the press release or watch the official announcement below.
And congratulations to David Duchovny!