David Duchovny is Onboard for "The X-Files" Reboot

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David Duchovny is Onboard for "The X-Files" Reboot
by Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY
January 20, 2015


David Duchovny says he's ready to slip back into character as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder for a reprisal of "The X-Files" in a limited run.

Duchovny tells USA TODAY he's "more than happy and excited to bring it back and do it again with Gillian (Anderson) and (series creator) Chris (Carter)."





Fox Television Group Chairmen-CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman confirmed to TV critics in California that the network wants to reboot the cult supernatural series and were in early talks with Chris Carter.

On Tuesday, Duchovny, 54, said, "I'm assuming that it will happen sooner rather than later now. We'll see what form, how many episodes. 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," he said with a laugh.





Duchovny also has other obligations. He's starring in a new NBC series, "Aquarius", in which he plays a homicide detective on the trail of Charles Manson in the 1960s before the Tate-LaBianca murders.

And he's written his first novel, Holy Cow, about a talking cow that escapes the slaughterhouse. It will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux on Feb. 3rd.

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"I'm amazed that there's still an appetite for it and I'm touched," says Duchovny, reacting to this week's news. He adds: "When I'm in a scene with Gillian, I think we'll both be like, this is so weird. And I think we've both gotten better as we've gotten older, so how do we bring that to bear on these characters? If I were to look back at the first or second year of the show, I wouldn't try to act like that guy. I'm capable of doing more. She's capable of doing more. It'll be interesting to see how we keep the characters the same but also the actors are better."