Realistically, Mulder would be locked away in a bunker with 900 issues of Penthouse and a barrel of lube.

The next mind-bending chapter of THE X-FILES debuts with a special two-night event beginning Sunday, Jan. 24 (10:00-11:00 PM ET/7:00-8:00 PM PT), following the NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, and continuing with its time period premiere on Monday, Jan. 25 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT). The thrilling, six-episode event series, helmed by creator/executive producer Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Agents FOX MULDER and DANA SCULLY, marks the momentous return of the Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning pop culture phenomenon, which remains one of the longest-running sci-fi series in network television history.

EW wrote:The Lone Gunmen set to return to The X-Files

Expect to see three more of The X-Files’ usual suspects when the series returns in January.

The conspiracy theorist trio known as The Lone Gunmen will appear in Fox’s six-episode event series, EW has confirmed. The Gunmen, played by Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood, were EW’s pick for “who we hope to see” in this month’s X-Files cover story.

Haglund, who played Langly, first announced the news on Twitter.

yep, it’s true. https://t.co/w718E0y6i8

— DEAN HAGLUND (@dhaglund) July 22, 2015

The Lone Gunmen were fan favorites on the original series, even starring in a short-lived spin-off in 2001, but their characters met a bitter end toward the end of The X-Files‘ ninth season. (Then again, so did the Cigarette Smoking Man, and he’s also making a comeback.) It remains to be seen how the Gunmen will factor in to the revival, but the series could adhere to the official season 10 comics — executive-produced by series creator Chris Carter — in which they are revealed to have faked their deaths. If that’s the case, we think it’s “remotely plausible” that Mulder will be happy to see them.

/film wrote:New X-Files Will Mix Mythology And Standalone Episodes

During their executive session with the Television Critics Association, Fox showed a clip from The X-Files new event series and talked about how the film will mix mythology and standalone episodes.

The scene screened at TCA featured Scully frantically arriving at Mulder’s farmhouse because he’d hung up on her earlier. He’s talking X-Files again and she’s worried for his sanity. She tells him he wants to believe so badly, and he says that the truth is out there, while discussing the leads a new character named Tad O’Malley has given him. There’s also a young woman staying in Mulder’s house, but it’s purely related to research.

They managed to say “X-Files” a lot in the clip, as if ensuring that this new series was in fact about the X-Files, not a standalone like the second film I Want to Believe. Dana Walden, Chairman and CEO of Fox Television Group, said the limited series will feature the same balance of episode types as the original run of the show.

“You’re seeing a scene from our first episode back,” Walden told me. “As you may recall, the mix of episodes we did was mythology episodes, episodes that dug deeper into the conspiracy of the X-Files, and then there were great spooky standalone episodes. That’s still the mix we’ll be exploring in this run.

Chris Carter returns for the new X-Files series. Like Paul Scheuring returning for Prison Break, Walden feels these TV revivals allow the creators to explore their creations with new energy and perspective, after having a break from the grind of running a weekly series.

“They feel ripe for reinvention and a great opportunity to reunite meaningful characters who people were attached to, tell fresh stories about them,” Walden said. “They’ve taken a significant hiatus and they’re event miniseries. We’re not suggesting that we’re rebooting The X-Files longterm. It felt like there was a great opportunity to bring back two characters who have enormous chemistry together and tell some new stories now that we have new fans and people that remember it from the original run.”

The X-Files returns this winter on Fox.

TC wrote:She tells him he wants to believe so badly, and he says that the truth is out there,

darkness wrote:

TC wrote:She tells him he wants to believe so badly, and he says that the truth is out there,

Please tell me this is a joke.

O-dot wrote:I also do not blame Jason Patric. I mean, Keanu wanted to go out touring with Dogstar, and Fox needed to get a sequel out. Jason got offered a ton of money, and what's wrong with enjoying the good life a bit?