It says something about the dorky lather we’ve worked ourselves up in over the return of The X-Files when speculation bubbles up over the next potential batch of episodes. It’s a greedy way of approaching one of the decade’s biggest TV comeback offerings, but on the other hand gimme, gimme, gimme!
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are splashed on the cover of latest issue of Variety as hype continues to build for the debut of their six episode X-Files miniseries slated to premiere this Sunday. Inside the pages, Duchovny addressed the subject of whether or not you’ll see Mulder and Scully in more episodes beyond this 2016 run. It’s a prospect the 55-year-old Californication alum sounds interested in, but there’s a certain issue gumming up the works:
“Gillian and I have talked about (doing more episodes), and then we just stop because we get to 2023 and we still haven’t found a date we can do it,” Duchovny says. “It’s like, ‘Let’s just wait and see what happens after this,’ and then we can start to talk seriously about whether we can make it work again.”
He’s not wrong about having to navigate some busy schedules. Duchovny’s NBC series Aquarius (a.k.a. Charlie Manson’s Groovy Funtime Hour) is getting its second season together and Anderson is wrapped up in season three of The Fall with a Broadway turn in A Streetcar Named Desire up next on the to-do list. That said, we’re reasonably sure The Lone Gunmen might be free.
Schedule complications may keep the possibility of more X-Files episodes on the sidelines for an extended spell, but series creator/showrunner Chris Carter has said that he’s written a third X-Files movie. Depending on how you view 2008’s The X-Files: I Want To Believe, that’s either lovely news or a terrifying threat.
(Via Variety)
