(L to R) David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in ‘The X-Files’. Photo: 20th Century Fox Television.
‘The X-Files’, originally created by Chris Carter, aired on Fox from 1993-2001 before being revived at the network for two more seasons in 2016 and 2018. It starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who investigate cases that lean towards the paranormal and otherwise unusual.
Two movies were made based on the original show, but there’s no word yet on whether either Duchovny or Anderson will appear in any capacity. As for the new potential series’ logline? “Two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.”
Deadwyler and Patel will be playing a new original characters –– we’re assuming at this point they’ll be the main agents.
Coogler is aboard to write and direct the pilot, but should the show go to series, ‘The Copenhagen Test’s Jennifer Yale will be overseeing it.
Coogler, an avowed fan of the supernatural, has spoken previously to Variety about his feelings for the show:
“Like my relationship with ‘Rocky’ with my dad, ‘The X-Files’ is one of those things with my mom. My mom means the world to me…so this is a big one for me. I want to do right by her and the fans. My mom has read some of the stuff I wrote for it. She’s fired up.”
(Left) Director Ryan Cooler at the New York Premiere of ‘Sinners’. Photo: Warner Bros. (Center) David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in ‘The X-Files’. Photo: 20th Century Fox Television. (Right) Danielle Deadwyler in ‘Parallel.’ Photo: Vertical Entertainment.
Preview:
Danielle Deadwyler will star in the new ‘X-Files’ series.
Ryan Coogler is writing the pilot and will direct it.
Jennifer Yale will be showrunner.
We’ve known for a while that ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Sinners’ director Ryan Coogler has been developing a rebooted take on cult supernatural show ‘The X-Files’ for Hulu. The show has now taken a step forward with a pilot order.
(L to R) David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in 1998’s ‘The X-Files’. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
‘The X-Files’, originally created by Chris Carter, aired on Fox from 1993-2001 before being revived at the network for two more seasons in 2016 and 2018. It starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who investigate cases that lean towards the paranormal and otherwise unusual.
Two movies were made based on the original show, but there’s no word yet on whether either Duchovny or Anderson will appear in any capacity. As for the new potential series’ logline? “Two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.”
We don’t yet know exactly how Deadwyler’s character will fit in, but we can assume she’s one of the agents.
“Like my relationship with ‘Rocky’ with my dad, ‘The X-Files’ is one of those things with my mom. My mom means the world to me…so this is a big one for me. I want to do right by her and the fans. My mom has read some of the stuff I wrote for it. She’s fired up.”
Coogler is aboard to write and direct the pilot, but should the show go to series, ‘The Copenhagen Test’s Jennifer Yale will be overseeing it.
Where else can we see Danielle Deadwyler?
Danielle Deadwyler in ’40 Acres’, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
Upcoming on the small screen, she’ll appear in the new season of ‘Euphoria’ and Steve Carell series ‘Rooster’. Movie-wise, she’s attached to drama ‘The Street’ and has worked on crime comedy ‘The Chaperones’.
‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ director Ryan Coogler.
Answer: They are all movies based on popular TV programs!
Whether it’s a continuation of the original series like ‘The X-Files‘ or ‘The Simpsons Movie,’ or a remake of the show such as ‘The Fugitive‘ or ‘Miami Vice,’ Hollywood has long enjoyed success from adapting popular television programs into feature films.
In honor of ‘The Fall Guy,’ which is currently available to stream now at home, Moviefone is counting down the 30 best movies based on TV programs of all time.
NOTE: For this list we are including both movies that are remakes of TV shows featuring a new cast, as well as films that continue the story of the series with the original cast.
(L to R) Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia in ‘The Addams Family’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd) reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia (Anjelica Huston) begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can’t recall any of the details of Fester’s life.
(L to R) Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 and Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart in ‘Get Smart.’ Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.
When the identities of secret agents from Control are compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) promotes hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart (Steve Carrell) and teams him with stylish, capable Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway), the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the evil plans of KAOS and its crafty operative?
(L to R) Mimi Rogers, Lacey Chabert, William Hurt and Heather Graham in 1998’s ‘Lost in Space’.
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons (William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Lacey Chabert and Jack Johnson) are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway (Gary Oldman) sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space.
(L to R) Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in ’21 Jump Street’. Photo: Columbia Pictures.
In high school, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) was a dork and Jenko (Channing Tatum) was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners riding bicycles in the city park. Since they are young and look like high school students, they are assigned to an undercover unit to infiltrate a drug ring that is supplying high school students synthetic drugs.
(L to R) Alice Krige as the Borg Queen and Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard in ‘Star Trek: First Contact.’ Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.
(L to R) Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore in 2000’s ‘Charlie’s Angels’. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing.
Three women (Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu), detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal.
(L to R) Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks in 1987’s ‘Dragnet’. Photo: Universal Pictures.
LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) — the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name (Jack Webb) — is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck (Tom Hanks). After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who’s behind it all.
(L to R) Harry Dean Stanton and Kyle MacLachlan in 1992’s ‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me’. Photo: New Line Cinema.
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond (Chris Isaak) inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
(L to R) Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker in ‘Sex and the City’. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures. Sarah Jessica Parker Kim Cattrall Kristin Davis Cynthia Nixon
(L to R) Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer in film ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ directed by Guy Ritchie.
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (Arie Hammer) are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo’s only lead is the daughter (Alicia Vikander) of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
When the four boys see an R-rated movie featuring Canadians Terrance and Philip, they are pronounced “corrupted”, and their parents pressure the United States to wage war against Canada.
2002’s ‘Jackass: The Movie’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf course, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligators, and so on.
Kristen Bell in 2014’s ‘Veronica Mars’. Photo: Warner Bros.
Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) gets pulled back to her hometown – just in time for her high school reunion – in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring), who’s embroiled in a murder mystery.
(L to R) Mel Gibson, James Garner and Jodie Foster in ‘Maverick’. Photo: Warner Bros.
Maverick (Mel Gibson) is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler (Jodie Foster) with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne (Mike Myers) and Garth (Dana Carvey). From Wayne’s basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called “Wayne’s World” on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive (Rob Lowe) who wants to produce a big-budget version of “Wayne’s World”—and he also wants Wayne’s girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra (Tia Carrere). Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.
(L to R) Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck in ‘State of Play’. Photo: Universal Pictures.
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist (Russell Crowe) starts investigating the case involving the Representative (Ben Affleck), his old college friend.
Leslie Nielsen in ‘The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!’ Photo: Paramount Pictures.
When the incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II (Jeannette Charles).
(L to R) Colin Farrell as Detective James ‘Sonny’ Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Detective Ricardo ‘Rico’ Tubbs in ‘Miami Vice.’ Photo: Universal Pictures.
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx). Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife (Gong Li) of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
(L to R) David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in 1998’s ‘The X-Files’. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson), now taken off the FBI’s X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
A gruesome serial killer (Andy Serkis) is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary.
He’s a stuntman (Ryan Gosling), and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love (Emily Blunt) of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?
2007’s ‘The Simpsons Movie’. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
After Homer (Dan Castellaneta) accidentally pollutes the town’s water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.
(L to R) Liam Neeson, Sharlto Copley, Quinton Jackson and Bradley Cooper in ‘The A-Team’. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn’t commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson), Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock (Sharlto Copley), Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus (Quinton Jackson), and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck (Bradley Cooper) help out various people they encounter.
(L to R) Ray Winstone, Hayley Atwell and Plan B in 2012’s ‘The Sweeney’. Photo: Entertainment One.
Jack Regan (Ray Winstone), a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter (Ben Drew) they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss (Steven Mackintosh) and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife (Hayley Atwell), it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.
Denzel Washington in ‘The Equalizer.’ Photo: Sony Pictures.
Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.
A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson) to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
(L to R) William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy in ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
It is the 23rd century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers and Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) seems resigned to the fact that this inspection may well be the last space mission of his career. But Khan (Ricardo Montalban) is back. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan – brilliant renegade of 20th century Earth – has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation Starship and sets out in pursuit of the Enterprise, determined to let nothing stand in the way of his mission: kill Admiral Kirk… even if it means universal Armageddon.
Harrison Ford in ‘The Fugitive’. Photo: Warner Bros.
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
When Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he’s surprised to learn that he’s the No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with writer, director and actress Meg Ryan, as well as actor David Duchovny about their work on ‘What Happens Later.’
They discussed their new movie, Ryan’s writing process, the themes they both wanted to explore, Duchovny’s experience sharing all his scenes with Ryan and working so closely with his director, how Ryan planned her shots with cinematographer Bartosz Nalazek, and shooting the final dance sequence.
(L to R) David Duchovny and Meg Ryan in Bleecker Street’s ‘What Happens Later.’ Credit: Bleecker Street.
You can read the full interview below or click on the video player above to watch our interviews.
Moviefone: To begin with, Meg, can you talk about developing the screenplay for the film, and what were some of the themes as a director you were excited to explore with this movie?
Meg Ryan: The perspective of two people looking back on their future that they didn’t have together. I thought that was just this mature perspective on two people trying to understand a life lived without one another. I thought that was just an interesting perspective to tell the story from the road not taken. Then they had this opportunity to go back and figure it out. They’re significant, obviously in one another’s lives because of this heartbreak and that they end up being able to be grateful about that.
David Duchovny in Bleecker Street’s ‘What Happens Later.’ Credit: Bleecker Street.
MF: David, as an actor, what were some of the themes that you were excited to explore on screen with this role?
David Duchovny: What I liked is that after they split up back in the day, they split up for reasons about one another that turned out to be incorrect. So, in a way, they went, and they lived their entire lives on these false assumptions about one another or pushing against something. “Oh, I’m not going to do that. I’m going to do this.” Then you come back 25 years later and you’re like, “Oh my God. I structured my whole life around a misperception in many ways.”
(L to R) David Duchovny and Meg Ryan in Bleecker Street’s ‘What Happens Later.’ Credit: Bleecker Street.
MF: David, you share pretty much all your scenes in the movie with Meg, who is also the director. What was it like for you to be in a project where you are only acting opposite one other actor, who also happens to be the filmmaker?
DD: I don’t think I’ve worked with an actor who was directing before. That’s a good question. I don’t think I have. But that aside also, I’ve never done as much work in a movie with just one other actor. I can’t think of any other movie that is just one other actor. So, I just consider myself lucky on both counts to have Meg as a performer, just a great living, breathing, organically reacting person, actress, honest, truthful, funny, and all those things. But also, as a director, just really nurturing, confidence building, freeing, perceptive, gentle, and smart. I ran out of adjectives. I ran out of words.
(L to R) Cinematographer Bartosz Nalazek and director Meg Ryan on the set of ‘What Happens Later.’ Credit: Bleecker Street.
MF: Many of the scenes in the movie play out in long masters without much cutting in between, allowing the performances to really playout and resonate with the audience. Meg, can you talk about setting up those shots and working with cinematographer Bartosz Nalazek?
MR: I got there about five or six weeks before David got there, and the DP was there the entire time. We shot listed everything as best we could. We were very prepared so that we could throw it all away when the performers get there and different things take over, but you had that in your back pocket. So, a lot of the conversation was about how we’re going to marry these locations and then how the magical reality would progress. That had to do with reflections and all kinds of things. The airport voice, all kinds of things that ended up contributing to that. But Bartosz Nalazek is from the Polish Avant Garde Theater School, and I think he just did a beautiful job. We didn’t have a lot of money, so what we had to do is figure out how to really take things away. So, after we shot, and we were in the color part of the post-production, we took away as many monikers as we could. Many things like gate numbers, advertising and all that stuff just kept getting simplified and eliminated, changing the color of the background, keeping the palette all the same, all that stuff to contribute to the progressive stillness and enchantment of this environment.
(L to R) Meg Ryan and David Duchovny in in Bleecker Street’s ‘What Happens Later.’ Credit: Bleecker Street.
MF: David, as an actor, was it freeing to work in that way?
DD: For me as an actor in those shots where she’s letting the scope of the place, because we were shooting in an airport, which is huge and open, and we were shooting in a museum, which is huge, open and beautiful. She allowed me as an actor to exist in these long takes, which you never get to do. Sometimes it’s good that you don’t get to do it, but we were on top of it and we were really playing against one another very well and organically, I thought. You see it, and it’s not created by the editor, it’s created by Meg and I on the day in that space.
(L to R) David Duchovny and Meg Ryan in Bleecker Street’s ‘What Happens Later.’ Credit: Bleecker Street.
MF: Finally, Meg, can you talk about shooting the dance sequence?
MR: Even just the dance sequence, just the two of us were alone in this giant room. The camera was across a lake in another building and there was maybe a big helium balloon that lit that place, and they would just say, “Go.” Then the music would start and we would just dance. It was the last night we were shooting. So, the freedom of that, I loved that so much, and you can feel it. In fact, I have a friend who saw the movie, and that’s the part where she just couldn’t stop crying.
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What is the plot of ‘What Happens Later’?
The film follows two exes (Meg Ryan and David Duchovny) who, after bumping into each other when their flights get delayed due to a snowstorm, spend the night at the airport reliving their past.
The set-up of “The X-Files” — by-the-book agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), is assigned to monitor “Spooky” UFO-obsessed Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) — gave us some of the greatest eye-rolls in TV history.
Her perpetually refusing to accept Mulder’s outlandish theories inspired the verb: “To Scully.” As used in a Season 1 episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” when Buffy complained to Giles after he wouldn’t believe something strange was going on with Xander: “I can’t believe, you, of all people, are trying to Scully me!”
In honor of Anderson’s birthday on August 9, some of our favorite “Scullying” scenes.
The first time she meets Mulder in the pilot, and he asks her, “Do you believe in extraterrestrials?” Scully barely manages to keep from laughing. Her lip twitch here is very restrained.
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When they arrive at the scene of their first case, Scully stands by in disbelief as Mulder spray-paints an “X” on the side of the road after some possibly UFO-inspired activity.
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While we mostly remember Scully for her eye-rolls, she also served up a good number of amused smiles when he started talking about little green (or gray) men.
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And then there are times she had to look up to heaven, as if asking, “Why me?” when Mulder did something really stupid, like sneaking onto a military base.
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Sometimes Mulder didn’t even see the eye-rolling, but we can be sure he heard the exasperated sigh that went along with it.
Did we mention the sighing?
Being stuck out in the woods with Mulder on yet another wild case, what can a sensible woman do but turn to the camera and shrug?
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The all-time best Scullying has to be in the comedic episode “Bad Blood.” The story is told from both her and Mulder’s point of view. As he remembers it, she’s more than usually hostile when he suggests that vampires are to blame for a series of murders. Why doesn’t she believe him? “Because they don’t exist?” she asks with her very best disapproving eyebrow raise.
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The entire episode is an extravaganza of “oh please!” eye-rolls.
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Thank you, Gillian, for all those priceless Scully moments.
All good things must come to an end … then be revived and come to an end again.
“The X-Files” looks like it could very well be headed toward its second end. After star Gillian Anderson told TV Insider in December that “this is it” for her ahead of Season 11, the show’s creator, Chris Carter, recently discussed what that would mean for the show. There’s no sugar-coating it: Her departure wouldn’t mean anything good for fans wanting to see more “X-Files.” When Collider asked Carter if he’d continue the show without Anderson, he said he would not.
“For me, ‘The X-Files’ is Mulder and Scully,” he said. “I think if it were without Scully, I wouldn’t do it. That’s not my ‘X-Files.’”
Luckily, Carter was prepared for the possibility of Season 11 being the show’s last. He said that he approaches it “always thinking that this could be it.” That said, he’s always ready for more, too, if his stars are on board.
“For me, ‘The X-Files’ can go on, indefinitely,” he said. “It’s really how long Mulder and Scully, and David [Duchovny] and Gillian [Anderson], want to do the show.”
Anderson and Carter’s comments leave the future of “The X-Files” looking bleak for fans, but at least we still have Season 11. “The X-Files” returns tonight, Jan. 3 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.
If the truth continues to be out there after Season 11 of “The X-Files,” Gillian Anderson won’t be looking for it.
The actress confirmed that she really, truly meant it when she said in October she planned to leave the show.
“The X-Files” was revived by Fox and creator Chris Carter last year. Positive feedback from fans propelled it to another season, but both Anderson and co-star David Duchovny have indicated they’re done.
“I’ve said from the beginning this is it for me,” she told TV Insider. “I was a bit surprised by people’s [shocked] reaction to my announcement … because my understanding was that this was a single season.”
Anderson has been busy the last few years, starring in British cop drama “The Fall,”Starz’s “American Gods,” and the mini-series “War and Peace.” And Duchovny recently appeared in Showtime’s revival of “Twin Peaks.”
Even without Anderson and Duchovny’s participation, it’s possible the show could go on, though, as Carter mused to TV Insider.
“There are a lot more ‘X-Files’ stories to tell,” he said. “Whether we get to tell them is a question mark. The truth is out there.”
Fox is giving us something old and something new to kick off the start of 2018.
The network has announced the premiere dates for “The X-Files” and “9-1-1.” Both series will arrive on Wednesday, Jan. 3, with “The X-Files” providing the lead-in to the freshman procedural drama.
The return of the “X-Files” will bring the much-anticipated second season of the revival, which premiered in 2016. It marks the 11th of the series overall. To spread the excitement, the show’s Twitter account teased the “re-opening” on Twitter Wednesday with a photo of stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny.
Meanwhile, Fox released a new preview for “9-1-1,” giving viewers an idea of what to expect from the upcoming drama. The series centers on emergency responders and boasts a talented cast. Connie Britton, Angela Bassett, and Peter Krause star.
“The X-Files” returns Jan. 3 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Fox with “9-1-1” following at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
According to TVLine, Osment, who recently appeared on HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” will be featured in an episode centered around FBI assistant director Walter Skinner (played by returning “X-Files” vet Mitch Pileggi). No details about Osment’s character have been released by Fox, which confirmed the casting on Tuesday, though we can’t help but wonder if there will be any winking references to his “Sixth Sense” protagonist’s ability to see dead people.
Despite the mystery surrounding the actor’s involvement in the show, “X-Files” creator Chris Carter had previously teased that the Skinner episode will delve into the FBI director’s past, and feature a younger version of Pileggi’s character.
“Fans will find out who he is, where he comes from, and why he is the way he is,” Carter said during an appearance at New York Comic Con earlier this year.
Viewers won’t have to wait much longer to find out the truth: “The X-Files” revival will return to Fox sometime in early 2018.
All good things must come to an end … then be revived and come to an end again.
If the truth continues to be out there after Season 11 of “The X-Files,” Gillian Anderson won’t be looking for it.
Fox is giving us something old and something new to kick off the start of 2018.
The X-Files.”