MOVIE NEWS – David Duchovny explained how The X-Files mastermind Chris Carter apparently predicted the future…

David Duchovny has explained that The X-Files creator Chris Carter was “almost clairvoyant” when he created a series that later closely mirrored the world we live in now. At a time when the Internet is swimming in conspiracy theories, which have become especially evident in recent years, everyone is willing to believe that someone is watching, that governments are misleading viewers, in short, that “the truth is out there.” Duchovny has no problem believing that this is the world Fox Mulder lived in three decades ago.

The X-Files focused on the work of FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who worked on cases that defied standard investigative methods and rational explanations. Throughout the series, Mulder was driven by his belief in conspiracy theories about government cover-ups of alien invasions and dubious agents working to hide the truth of unexplained phenomena from the public. While this all seemed a bit far-fetched to most people in 1994, the rise of the Internet allowed such theories to take hold and grow in such a way that the world of The X-Files came very close to the one we live in.

Speaking to The Times about his work on the series, Duchovny said that he believes the reality in which creator Chris Carter envisioned his characters has very quickly become our reality. He said the following:

“Mulder’s way of looking at the world was through conspiracy and that was the fringe at that point. It doesn’t seem to be so fringe any more. It’s really the world that [The X Files creator] Chris Carter foresaw happening almost 30 years ago. He’s almost clairvoyant in that case.”

“I think conspiracies are mostly just lazy thinking.”

According to David Duchovny, The X-Files never intended to show the future

Clearly, there have always been those willing to believe any conspiracy theory they discovered in the dark corners of society. But the Internet has allowed like-minded people to come together and feed off each other’s faith in the same speculations and conspiracies that Fox Mulder often got lost in over 11 seasons of The X-Files.

When The X-Files came out, it was just a sci-fi horror series that wanted to entertain viewers with dark mysteries and thrilling adventures featuring aliens and monsters. As Duchovny alluded to, while most of the show’s fantastical elements may remain fantasy, the central themes of government cover-ups, hidden agendas, and people searching for the “truth” are things that are now an inescapable part of the world.

The world has changed since the first broadcast of The X-Files, or even just in the six years that have passed since the renovation that was completed in 2018, makes the new reboot of the series, which is produced by Ryan Coogler, who wrote Black Panther, interesting to say the least. How the conspiratorial core of the series will hold up in a world where belief in conspiracy theories has become part of the mainstream remains to be seen when the franchise’s reimagining hits screens in the coming years.

Source: The Times