Two months back, Fox made the huge announcement that “The X-Files” series creator Chris Carter will executive-produce Season 11, and stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson have signed on to return as Mulder and Scully, as well. While this is the most important news regarding the revival’s continuation, Carter has finalized the writers room for the series’ forthcoming 10-episode 11th season, and it’s stacked with franchise vets.
Most notably, Carter will once again reunite with former producers Glen Morgan, Darin Morgan and James Wong, each of whom were responsible for writing and directing one of Season 10’s six episodes, reports TVLine.
The quartet will be joined by relative newcomers Gabe Rotter (who served as a writers assistant on Season 9), Benjamin Van Allen (a writers assistant on Season 10) and Brad Follmer (Carter’s personal assistant during Season 8 and 9, and not to be confused with the character Brad Follmer, played by Cary Elwes in Season 9).
It’s not clear how many episodes each of the seven writers will be personally responsible for, but it’s probably safe to say that Carter will again preside over the premiere and the finale.
This comes with bad news. Fans hoping that Season 11 would mark the return of two other “X-Files” behind-the-scenes MVPs — former scribes Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz — are sadly out of luck. Neither will be involved in Season 11, add the site.
Production on Season 11 begins later this summer ahead of an early 2018 launch.