Fox May Revive X-Files With David Duchovny And Gillian Anderson

[RandySF]

It's learned that Fox is considering bringing back X-Files with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.

The good news comes from Fox Television Group chairman Gary Newman who confirmed talks are underway at the recent Television Critics Association winter press tour.

“It’s been reported, and it’s true, that we’ve had some conversations about [reviving] X-Files” [ideally with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson]," Newman said, reports TV Line. “But I have nothing that we can announce at this time.”

X-Files ran for 9 seasons with 202 episodes and two movies, which kicked off back in 1993.


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[Dr. Strange]

1. Is this true?

I mean, I want to believe. You know, that it's true.

[First Speaker]

2. Hmmm...considering that the alien invasion began on 12/21/2012, it's a bit late, isn't it...?

...sorry, couldn't resist...but I do wonder what they'll do for their long-term plotlines that can top the original one...

[RandySF]

4. I always enjoyed the episodes that had nothing to do with aliens.

[d_r]

5. supposedly it is a reboot

Wouldn't mind them having a do over

[RandySF]

7. Less aliens and more inbred families.

Remember that episode?

[d_r]

12. yeah

And at the end they drove off, so that's sequal material right there

[Downtown Hound]

16. Remember that episode? LOL.

I had been trying to get my mom to give the X-Files a try for YEARS. She had seen brief moments of it while I was watching it, but said it was, "too dark, too gruesome," for her. I countered that it was an extremely well-written show that dealth with topics she might find interesting (she was really into new-agey stuff and spiritualism at the time).

So one night, she finally agreed to give it a try, saying that a bunch of her new age friends watched it and loved it so she'd check it out. Well, guess what episode it was? Yup. "Home." The infamous incestuous mutants. The only episode of the X-Files that was ever banned for a short time after its initial airing.

Suffice it to say, she never watched The X-Files again. LMFAO.

[progressoid]

18. The Peacock family!

I'm still kind of creeped out by that.

[BlueJazz]

3. I was thinking of a new one where Fox (David) is after a woman genie.

She does grant a wish to this one guy who wishes to be invisible and then stands out in the street and gets hit by a truck.
Later..the Genie winds up getting what SHE wants...

Naw...they'd never go for that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. That would be cool. I loved that show.

[olddots]

8. can they combine Fringe with X Files ?

That would be weird .

[Archae]

9. Return of the X-Fools...

Must be a writers' strike at Fox.

[csziggy]

10. If they bring back the Lone Gunman guys I'll watch it

[AtomicKitten]

11. Gillian signed on for another season of Hannibal.

She plays Lecter's psychiatrist. Plus she has her own show on the BBC called The Fall. Now a reboot of X Files? She is one busy lady.

[Avalux]

13. I would watch it. Not sure it would be the same though.

There was something cutting edge about the X-Files when it aired, now there's so many in the 'supernatural' vein. But I'm thinking now that thousands of pages of the government's own x-files have been released, there's material for them. It could be either really good or horrid.

[cyberswede]

14. I'd check it out

but it would have to be really good for me to stick around. And I second the post above that mentioned the Lone Gunmen.

[Downtown Hound]

15. The X-Files ended in 2002 basically saying the Aliens were going to invade in 2012

Uh, wonder how they're going to spin that.

Wait a minute, I know! Mitt Romney is actually an alien, and when Obama defeated him it forced them to change their plans!

[Orrex]

17. One need only watch the last four seasons of the original run to see how awful this will be

Four things they absolutely need to avoid:
1. Scully's cancer arc
2. Scully's child arc
3. Mulder's sister arc
4. The whole stupid alien conspiracy arc

The series was much stronger when it was a series of one-shot episodes than when Carter tried to craft a compelling narrative over three or four or fifty episodes.

Stick with the monster-of-the-week format, and it has a chance. Otherwise it's guaranteed to be a disaster.

[KatyaR]

19. I have only one thing to say to that...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

20. I loved the episode where Mulder was whacking mailboxes in suburbia.

I thought they should have done more of that kind of suburban environment thing.

And David Duchovny was quite handsome (and smart) back in the day. Still not bad.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

21. Maybe they'll accurately predict the next 9-11... again.

Amazing show in its day, but I'm skeptical that they can recapture their early mojo.

[Initech]

22. Hell yeah!