Chris Carter Has the "Perfect Story" for a Third X-FILES Movie With Mulder and Scully

Mulder and Scully may still have one more case waiting for them. Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, has revealed that he has an idea for a third movie centered on Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, and he sounds pretty confident about the story he wants to tell.

Carter shared the update during a recent interview with Bloody-Disgusting while promoting the new director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

While the franchise is preparing for a new interpretation from Ryan Coogler, Carter still hopes there could be room for another adventure featuring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as the paranormal-investigating duo.

Carter explained: “I’ve got the perfect story for another movie. It could be that they just want to do another series, and I don’t want to get in the way of Ryan Coogler and his vision.

“I’m completely respectful of him and what he’s doing, and I can’t wait to see it. I’ve actually made a point of not reading the script because I want to watch it like everyone else. But I do have another story that I’d like to tell with Mulder and Scully.”

Carter isn't trying to compete with Coogler's upcoming project or steer the franchise away from whatever direction it's headed. He simply has another Mulder and Scully story sitting in his back pocket, and he'd like the chance to make it.

I'd love to see it happen. Mulder and Scully have been through movies, revivals, conspiracies, aliens, monsters, government cover-ups, and more than enough unanswered questions to fill a filing cabinet in a basement office. Yet their story has never received the satisfying conclusion it deserves.

A third X-Files movie could finally provide that. The 2008 film The X-Files: I Want to Believe took a smaller, more personal approach than the mythology-heavy first movie, while the later television revival brought Mulder and Scully back into the larger conspiracy.

Even after all of that, there's still an opportunity to give these characters a proper final chapter, particularly if Carter really does have the right story for it.

Of course, having an idea and getting a movie made are two very different things. There's currently no confirmation that a third X-Files movie is moving forward, and Carter himself clearly recognizes that Coogler's project is now part of the franchise's future.

Still, knowing Carter wants to tell one more Mulder and Scully story is enough to keep the possibility alive. As an X-Files fan, I hope he gets the opportunity to make it.

Give Duchovny and Anderson one final movie to give these two characters the ending they've earned.