The X-Files to return to cinemas

By Ben Hazell
Last Updated: 1:12am GMT 29/03/2008

Cult 1990s TV show The X-Files is to make a cinema comeback.

Ten years after the last film, the team behind the original series is slowly releasing information about the new film, due for US release on the 25th of July.

That information doesn't yet include a title.

It is known that the film will be set six years after the end of the television series, and will again star David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Agents Mulder and Scully.

Director Chris Carter, creator of the series that ran between 1993 and 2002, showed the first trailer of the new film at a television convention in Los Angeles.

Speaking about the title he hinted at rifts between the writers and studio Fox.

"I know what I want it to be," he said.

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He also described the new film as "a stand alone movie", removed from the complicated ongoing plot lines of the series.

Co-writer Frank Spotnitz said: "It will not be a mythology movie, but it is true to everything that's come before."

This will include more information about William, the alien baby mothered by Anderson's character in the show.

The film has been in development ever since the end of the TV series, but various legal disputes over syndication rights for the show have slowed production.

Carter said Fox had told him the movie had to happen "now or never".

The X-Files won 16 Emmys over the course of it's nine series, playing on conspiracy theories and the paranormal to build a cult audience.