ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What hopes do you have for the franchise? Would you like to make another film?
CHRIS CARTER: I know we would. But we're not under the illusion that it's a given. We've got to perform here in order to give it another day.
According to X-Files mythology, the final stage of the alien invasion is planned to start in December 2012...
Well, we didn't think that one up. That is actually part of the literature. It is a Mayan date.
Is that something you might address in a third film?
I think we'd like to revisit that whole storyline.
The last couple of seasons of the X-Files TV show received a fairly mixed reaction. Are you envious that the creators of Lost have been given the freedom to say, long ahead of time, when the series will conclude?
No. I've got no regrets now over the work that we did during that time. And while it's always good to know how you're going to end, and when you're going to end, I think it can forestall a more adventurous approach which might lead down very interesting paths. One of the best parts of doing the series is that it starts to go places you hadn't anticipated.
Who's the most surprising X-Files fan you've come across?
Sean Penn came up to me one night at a party and told me about an episode we had done in season 6. He said, ''That's the best X-Files you guys have ever done.'' I'm thinking, what's he doing watching the show?
People must always be hassling you for information about the X-Files. When you're sitting next to someone on a plane, and they ask you what you do, what do you say?
I tell them. But, oftentimes, you get, ''Oh, The X-Files. I never really watched that show.
What did you do between the end of the TV show and starting to work on the second movie?
Kicking my drug habit. [Laughs]
Seriously, were you just counting the money?
I wasn't. I tell people it was 10 years of output followed by five years of input. I read a lot. I traveled a lot. I became a pilot.
Is that easy?
It's easy if you're a reckless person.
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