The X Files 2: Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny Together Again!

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This entry was posted on 7/17/2007 10:00 PM and is filed under Celebrities '07.



By AmericasNewsToday.Org staff 

Speaking at the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Los Angeles on Saturday, David Duchovny said that the film made in 1998, based on the TV series, is close to getting a sequel. He said the original cast and crew members have already signed up for The X Files 2.

Duchovny, 46, who became world-famous as FBI Special Agent Fox William Mulder, said the film is slated for a 2008 release. "I'm supposed to see a script next week," the actor said.

"The X-Files" was hugely successful in the 1990s. The first episode aired in 1993 and the series went on until 2002. By that time, both of its initial stars, Duchovny and Anderson, had left the show.

Throughout its existence, the series won Emmys, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Both Gillian Anderson and Duchovny won Golden Globe awards for the best male and female actors in a drama series in 1997.

The upcoming sequel has reportedly suffered delays due to legal disputes between creator Chris Carter and 20th Century Fox Television. Carter sued the company, alleging breach of contract and contractual interference, among others, according to Reuters.

Carter has made several other shows for Fox, including Millennium, The Lone Gunmen and Harsh Realm, both for Fox, but none of them have enjoyed anything like the same degree of success of The X Files, which ran for 201 episodes.

Duchovny’s new Showtime comedy series, "Californication," premieres this August on Showtime. He was promoting his new project at the Television Critics Association press tour when he revealed the details about The X-Files sequel.

Chicago-born actress Gillian Anderson, who spent her childhood in Crouch End, North London -- and still speaks with an English accent -- won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her performances as Agent Dana Katherine Scully and has gone on to further success in film and television since The X Files went off the air. She won a BATFA for her performance as Lady Dedlock in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House and has recently appeared in a succession of British films, A Cock and Bull Story, The Last King of Scotland and Straightheads.

Anderson, 37, is currently working on the film version of British journalist Toby Young's book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, which is being shot in London.

When asked over the weekend about the sequel, Anderson said Carter had been working hard to make the follow-up feature film happen: "I think there were a lot of issues that have stopped it in the past but now it seems clear and they've got the contract details worked out and I guess Chris has had time to write it and all those things equal something positive."

So the X-Philes, and indeed a potential younger audience of converts to the adventures of Mulder and Scully, will have to settle for another movie. In the years since they have been away there has been more than enough threat of global terror, government skullduggery, conspiracy theories and fears of evil-minded scientists and dark forces at play to provide an appetite for their return.

"It's going to be a very scary film about two characters who happen to be called Mulder and Scully," Anderson said. "My understanding is that it's scary like a monster film."

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