Certainly some fans shed a tear or two of joy when they heard that The X-Files was officially slated for a long-awaited revival. But the first page of the script for the nostalgia-infused project actually made David Duchovny flat-out weep.

"I got the first script this morning," he told Entertainment Weekly during a recent interview. "I just read it about an hour ago and I started crying reading the first page. It was just so strange to see the names on the page. It had nothing to do with the script itself. It was just like, I'd been talking about this for a long time. We'd been planning it for a long time. It took a long time to get all the people in the same place and get the deal with Fox. So let's say two years we've been talking about doing it. Now it's the fun part. Now we actually get to do it. That was nice and strangely emotional for me, and I'll have to figure out how to use that [in the performance]."

Now before you think that tells you nothing about the quality of the upcoming show itself, Duchovny also added that while he can't divulge any details about the script, he can freely admit it's "fantastic."

He also said that the series, which will air in January 2016, will be a healthy mix of standalone mysteries and the type of mythology that made the show so distinct. And while the reboot only consists of six episodes, there are already rumors floating around of a possible second season.

"I would be open to doing another cycle," Duchovny said. "I don't know that I could do a 20-episode version of this show at this point in my life, and I don't know that Gillian [Anderson] could. But I think everybody is open-ended on what happens after this. Certainly, we didn't bring it back with the idea of ending it."