USA Today has scored a short interview with Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, and two new pictures of Mulder and Scully, together again at last. And the big - and exceedingly welcome - news is that the plot of the film will not be another story connected to the series' long-running mythology (aliens among us are trying to colonise Earth) but a stand-alone film.
Due in UK cinemas this August, the film reunites Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson), and Carter hopes to introduce the pair to a whole new audience too young to have watched the show.
But even more promising like that, at least for die-hard romantics like us here at Empire, is this about his two lead characters: ""For me, *The *X-Files has always been a romance. They had an intellectual romance that's very rare and restrained compared to so many relationships on TV. I think that's what appealed most to the fans. And they're back."
Does this mean they'll actually succumb to each other's myriad charms? Or will we be teased again with a near-kiss interrupted by the sting of a genetically-engineered alien bee? Oh, say it ain't so! If, in a surprise twist, Mulder gets bitten by a psychic shapeshifting squirrel just as they're about to get it on, we're going to march on the studios.