The series that had a generation looking to the sky gets a breathtaking audio reprise in an original full-cast dramatization featuring actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson returning to voice FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
Based upon the graphic novels by Joe Harris – with creative direction from series creator Chris Carter – and adapted specifically for the audio format by aural auteur Dirk Maggs (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Alien: Out of the Shadows), and directed by William Dufris of AudioComics, Cold Cases marks yet another thrilling addition to the pantheon of X-Files stories. Featuring a mind-blowing and otherworldly soundscape of liquefying aliens, hissing creatures, and humming spacecraft, listeners get to experience the duo’s investigations like never before.
Set after the events of The X-Files: I Want to Believe and providing additional backstory to the incidents that pulled Mulder and Scully out of reclusion prior to 2016’s miniseries revival, a database breach at FBI headquarters allows an unknown group to access and capitalize on those investigations left unsolved – dubbed cold cases – by the secret department once known as The X-Files. As friends and foes of the agency long thought gone begin to inexplicably reappear, former agents Mulder and Scully come out of anonymity to face a growing conspiracy that involves not only their former department but the US government and forces not of this world.
Here, fans are treated once again to Mulder and Scully’s irreplicable chemistry as only the series’ leads could deliver, Duchovny’s deadpan and cynical aloofness finding its natural counterpoint in Anderson’s unwavering intelligence and rigidity. Appearances from series regulars and the actors who made them fan favorites round out this must-listen arc: the gruff, no-BS righteousness of Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi); the distinctive click-puff of the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis); and the stooge-like hijinks of three beloved conspiracy theorists called the Lone Gunmen (Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood).
Whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, find your “I Want to Believe” poster. Break out that makeshift alien stiletto. Grab a pack of Morley cigarettes.
The truth is out there. You just have to listen.
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its X-Files at its best.. This is the show that the mini series *SHOULD* have been. This revealed secrets to long unanswered questions, it found a way to bring everyone back including Doggit, Mr X and the smoking man…it answered 2 mysteries but left 1 new one for every new one it answered. It felt episodic where each episode could stand alone but also managed to build the world with each new episode. In short, its X-Files at its best…unlike the miserable mini series….this effort actually made me want to rewatch…
“The X-Files” is back, and Big Finish has some serious competition! Old friends and foes gather once again in the swirling mists to face the unknown. When I found out that this, an adaptation of one of my all time fave TV shows was happening as a full-cast audio drama I was over the damn moon: I mean, finally somebody’s putting together an American version of Big Finish, no surprise that its Audible. I spent the day listening to Mulder and Scully’s audio debut and I was not at all disappointed. The same dry deliveries of the stars, the intensity of Skinner, and…
Absolutely superb I pre ordered this audiobook having been a fan since the beginning and I was very excited to get more mulder and scully in my life but also I wondered how their voices would translate to just audio, I needn’t have worried as this audiobook is excellent! It fills in part of the gap between the end of the tv series and start of the new mini series. The chemistry between mulder and scully/Duchovny and Anderson is as good as ever and the writing is brilliant. You can tell a lot of time and effort…