FOX is in talks to create ‘The X-Files’ reboot and David Duchovny is on board to reprise his role as Agent Fox Mulder. Fox TV Group chairman Gary Newman had announced the news at the channel’s TCA presentation on Saturday.
Duchovny has responded and told USA Today that he’s “more than happy and excited to bring it back and do it again with (co-star) Gillian (Anderson) and (series creator) Chris (Carter).”
The 54-year-old said, “I think it will happen sooner rather than later. We’ll see what it looks like, how many episodes there will be. I definitely can’t, nor would I want to, do a full season. It will be in some limited way. We’re all older now, and we don’t have the energy for a full season.”
At the moment he’s in NBC’s “Aquarius” and is gearing up to promote his first novel “Holy Cow”, about a talking cow that escapes from the slaughterhouse.
Gillian Anderson, who played Dana Scully, has said in the past she’s up for the role again.
Recently during her interview with The Nerdist, Anderson admitted she’d be “f*cking overjoyed” to reunite with Duchovny for more episodes of “The X-Files.”
“The X-Files” reboot starring Duchovny and Anderson would come to television more than two decades later. The show first started production in 1993. Duchovny was 33 and Anderson was 25.
In a past interview Duchovny talked about making one of the “X-Files’ movies.
“I ran a lot for this movie. You see, action scenes can be pretty dull for an actor. Action and sex scenes feel silly because they are all fake. I mean, everything is fake, but those scenes feel even more fake. Chris wanted a scene where I chase someone as fast as I could for five minutes. I’m curious to see how it all comes together, but we definitely ran hard for about five or six nights straight, in the rain. It was pretty dumb, and I really didn’t enjoy it.”
With “The X-Files” reboot starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson probably coming to life and Kyle MacLachlan definitely returning to “Twin Peaks”, what other series would you like to see be rekindled?