Following Monday's news that Fox are keen to re-open The X-Files, David Duchovny has made it known that he's happy to slip back into Fox Mulder's suit. "I'm assuming that it will happen sooner rather than later," he told USA Today.
But he also bluntly answered some of the immediate questions about what sort of show a new X-Files might be. Given Duchovny's apparent attitude towards the series in the last couple of years of its original run, there are, as you might expect, caveats.
"We'll see what form [it takes] and how many episodes," he teased. "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."
After seven years of paranormal investigations, Mulder took a back seat in The X-Files' eighth and ninth years, with new agents Doggett and Reyes (Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish) stepping in to join Gillian Anderson's Scully and Mitch Pileggi's Skinner. Duchovny's words either suggest a short season or a continuation of that latterday set-up, in which Mulder and Scully serve in some sort of supervisory capacity to some new agents. Or hey, maybe we'll see Doggett and Reyes again.
Duchovny and Anderson are, to be fair, both currently busy with their separate small screen careers: Anderson has a recurring role on Hannibal and may make more series of The Fall, while Duchovny has a new show called Aquarius set to launch this year. X-creator/show-runner Chris Carter, however, suddenly has time on his hands following Amazon's decision not to proceed with his supernatural show The After.
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