“It’s interesting, people say, ‘Aren’t you possessive of it?’ And I say, ‘No, I’m looking forward to seeing what somebody else does with it,’” Carter said, adding that he had a “really nice conversation” with Coogler when the latter first pitched his idea for an “X-Files” reboot to Fox.

“I just asked him what his ideas were, and he told me, and I said, ‘Those sound like good ideas,’” Carter said. “No matter what, he’s got a hard job. Casting is a hard job. Mounting it is a hard job. All the problems I dealt with are going to be his problems.”

“Everything’s a conspiracy,” Carter said. “No one knows what the truth is. It’s completely subjective and relative now.”

Carter pointed to the conspiracy theories over Kate Middleton’s public absence last month. She ultimately revealed she had stepped back from the spotlight due to cancer diagnosis.

Whether or not Duchovny and Anderson feature in Coogler’s “X-Files” reboot remains to be seen.

Carter remembered Fox executives not excited about his casting choices when he pitched the actors in the early 1990s. The studio wanted a bombshell like Pamela Anderson to play Scully.

“Where’s the sex appeal?” Carter remembered studio execs asking him. “Even though Gillian’s beautiful, she wasn’t their idea of sexy. First, because they didn’t understand what I was trying to do with the show. And she was an unknown, so that never helps.”

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