After six years of silence, Mulder and Scully are back – and, as a result, I got the chance to discuss their new cinematic outing with writers Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz. A thoughtful, friendly pair – and if you squinted a bit and tilted your head to one side, they could almost be surf-bronzed, Californian versions of our own Bob Rickard and Paul Sieveking…


FT: What was the impetus to get away from extraterrestrials for the new film?


Frank Spotnitz: We knew from the beginning that we wanted to do a movie like most of the episodes of the show, which had nothing to do with aliens.