"The X-Files" is coming back on Fox in January, after its 13-year hiatus. The production started in Vancouver in June, and it will return as a six-episode mini-series.

David Duchovny, who played the role of FBI agent Fox Mulder, said that he was emotional when he read the script for the revival of the longest running sci-fi series in the U.S. television, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

"I started crying reading the first page. It was just so strange to see the names on the page," said Duchovny, who later clarified that it really had nothing to do with the script itself.

"It was just like, I'd been talking about this for a long time," the 54-year-old producer added. "We'd been planning it for a long time."

Duchovny's character, Mulder, was a conspiracy theorist who was assigned to investigate on unexplained cases known as "The X-Files." Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) was a fellow FBI agent — sceptical about the supernatural — sent to work with Mulder.

The show aired from 1993-2002. It had 62 Emmy nominations during its nine-year run.

Executive producer Chris Carter says this is the perfect time to tell the six stories because the world had gotten stranger since it went off the air in 2002, accoding to US Weekly.

Meanwhile, Fox aired an exclusive new footage of the show, Thursday, on "Wayward Pines." @thexfilesfox immediately shared this news on Twitter.

The sneak peek video of "The X-Files" showed creepy medical tools, soldiers walking through a field armed with weapons and Mulder and Scully busting into a room. Check it out below.

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