Fox may bring ‘X-Files’ back, Duchovny and Anderson are interested.
So yeah okay Fox wants to bring X-Files back. And even if I could scrape the terribleness that was the last two seasons off of my Brain Plate, I don’t think I’d be down for this. It’s been so goddamn long, the zeitgeist has passed, you can’t rebottle the lightning. Et cetera. That said, I’ll watch it.
Fox hasn’t quite confirmed the return of The X-Files, but it’s made it clear that it wants to bring the show back. And actress Gillian Anderson has made it clear that she wants to come back. And now David Duchovny has made it clear that he wants to come back, too.
More on the possible David Duchovny X Files return after the jump.
Speaking with USA Today, Duchovny revealed he’d be “more than happy and excited to bring it back and do it again with [co-star] Gillian and [series creator] Chris [Carter].” He added, “I’m assuming that it will happen sooner rather than later now.”
However, there is a catch — he doesn’t want to return to the 20something-episode seasons of yore. “We’ll see what form, how many (episodes),” he said. “Certainly I can’t nor would I be interested in doing a full season. It will be in some kind of limited form. We’re all old, we don’t have the energy for a full season.”
There’s been on-and-off chatter of a potential third X-Files movie for years, but these recent developments suggest we’re more likely to get a TV series — probably something along the lines of that 24 limited-edition series that aired last year. Duchovny’s comments follow ones made by Fox exec Gary Newman during a TCA panel this past weekend. “It’s true that we’ve had some conversations on X-Files,” he said. “We’re hopeful of being able to bring that back at some point.”
Anderson seems game as well. During an appearance on the Nerdist podcast earlier this month, Anderson admitted she’d be “fucking overjoyed” to reunite with Duchovny for more episodes of The X-Files, and sparked a fan campaign (using #XFiles2015) calling upon Fox to revive the series.
And while I’m fucking grousing! Fuck Duchovny. Dude had such disdain for the show back in the day, and straight-up left it. Which sort of resulted in the show going from “Oh God” in Season 7 to “Oh God kill it!” in the next two seasons. Eh whatever. *Creaky Back*