X-FILES Creator Chris Carter Is Developing A New Show At AMC
Former X-Files writer and producer Vince Gilligan is wrapping up Breaking Bad at AMC, but it looks like the man who created the groundbreaking sci-fi series will be stepping in to fill the network’s apparently required X-Files alum position.
Chris Carter, who created The X-Files, is developing a show at the cable network that revolves around… well… who knows. In an interview with the Vulture, Carter mentioned that it’s based on a book that AMC execs handed to him and owes to The X-Files.
That’s about as specific as Carter would get, but he did have this to say about the direction of the show:
“I think that I am treading on some of this interesting ground that Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange have uncovered for us.” Another resource he’s drawing from is his cable-news addiction, which currently keeps him up at night. “I’ve become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider’s dial,” he said. “I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it’s something of an addiction. Not necessarily for the content but for the context. And I’m writing about it.”
It’s been 20 years since The X-Files hit the small screen and took pop culture by storm. Between this show and Carter’s show at Amazon Studios, a sci-fi drama titled The After, it looks like Carter may finally be ready to for a very big second act.
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