About four years ago, shortly after I started working for Nerve and long before the illustrious Screengrab was born, I had one of my first bona fide celebrity sightings in New York. I was walking out of a music shop when I turned and saw David Duchovny briskly walking with a female companion on 4th street. We made eye contact and the look on Duchovny’s face will forever remain in my mind as one that screamed, “DEAR GOD, DON’T LET THE X-FILES FREAK TALK TO ME! NOT TODAY!” I held my tongue in a way that the audience watching this leaked teaser for the X-Files’ return to the silver screen would find impossible. There’s not much to it. A nice hint of mystery, a whole lot of my personal buddy Billy Connolly looking like the abominable snowman, and some quick shots of Mulder and Scully looking like Mulder and Scully. If you’re anything like these screaming fans though, that’s more than enough. This movie will have nothing to do with the show and first film’s ongoing mythology-aliens plotline and will be a standalone supernatural thriller. If this turns out to be as good as it looks at this point, I probably won’t be able to keep my mouth shut the next DD and I cross paths.
