After 10 years away from television, noted X-Files creator is bringing The After to Amazon. A post-apocalyptic tale set in Los Angeles, partly inspired by Dante s Inferno, this is an idea he s been incubating for years. He claims he really needed the break.
For me The X-Files was 10 years of output, I needed 10 years of input, Carter said.
When I was 45 years old I stopped… I climbed mountains, went on surf trips, read a lot, watched a lot, got ready to come back…There is so much good television on now. He watched The Sopranos, The Shield and The Wire during his temporary retirement. Asked why pick a digital platform like Amazon for his return, Carter said, it was good fortune to be involved with a frontier in the business. It is how I think people will watch television exclusively from now on.
The process isn t markedly different from dealing with a broadcast network, he said. The different part of the process for me is that we re doing eight episodes as opposed to 25 episodes (in the second season of The X-Files ).
With Sharon Lawrence (who plays a much older woman) and Adrian Pasdar, the mystery-thriller concerns eight strangers thrown together by mysterious forces in a violent world. All we know from the trailer is that they share a birthday.
I ve always resisted the science fiction label, Carter said, but there s a significant amount of science fiction here. The series will be released one hour at a time.
