Fox Wants To Bring Back The X-Files, David Duchovny And Gillian Anderson

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Fox has confirmed that it is in talks to revive its iconic supernatural horror procedural, The X-Files.

Speaking Saturday at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour, Fox TV executives Dana Walden and Gary Newman said they've been in talks not only with series creator Chris Carter, but stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, about the show's revival. Discussions to date have not been creative in nature but logistical; with Carter, Duchovny and Anderson all busy with their own projects, the biggest obstacle facing the reboot could be finding a time frame during which all three are free. Here's Walden:

[The Cajun]

If they can bring back “The Lone Gunmen” in the new X Flies, the “It had to be aliens” guy would fit right in with that bunch.

[GeronL]

They could make it darker.... the secret they found (not shown) was so big and so disturbing that they agree it needs to be covered up.

Younger stars should play the FBI agents looking into X-Files while Mulder and Scully show up to throw them off the trail at the end of each episode....

[chris37]

That goes back to the old rule of less is more.

It’s scarier to not see the shark in Jaws than it is to see the shark in Jaws.

Same goes for original Alien.

It’s not what you know that scares you, it’s what you don’t know.

Which is why the movies that scare me more than anything else deal with the supernatural, or ghosts, demons, the devil things like that.

One thing I really hate though is low budget CGI in movies trying to be passed off as legit.

Some of that stuff is SO BAD that i just can’t tolerate watching it.

I’d rather there be no special effects at all than substandard special effects.

Better to leave things up to the imagination.

[The Cajun]

Excellent twist or to put it better, twist off.

[SunkenCiv]

I like your idea, fwiw. And I’m pretty dead-set against the idea of the reboot.

[kearnyirish2]

I think the reason they are recycling old material is because they are reaching out to the old audiences of twenty years ago; the demographic disaster/low birthrate of the middle and upper classes has led marketers to appeal to the previously “young” audience to sell things (both the shows/ movies themselves and the products in commercials). I’m surprised at how many entertainment personalities of years past are now appearing in commercials, and how many movies/TV shows are re-treads of old ones.

To reach truly young audiences today, you would be targeting the welfare broods (who don’t have much to spend) or producing in Spanish, Hindi, or Chinese. There seems to be a recognition that the politically correct shows/movies aren’t doing well because there is nobody to watch them; the targeted generation of younger Americans for such PC fluff simply hasn’t been born.

[Morpheus2009]

My idea would have been since Duchovny is older to have him play a role similar to Skinner, where he is a supervisor, but not fully on board. Changing Anderson to an antagonist would be a nice twist too. Somehow, I feel thrilled at the concept of a female X-Files villain who remains the top villain in the series.

[OneWingedShark]

I like your idea, fwiw. And I’m pretty dead-set against the idea of the reboot.

Thank you.
It's less of a reboot than a let's make the scariest, most paranoid setting possible to "play" in.

Though I get the feeling that the writers for such a show would have to have other, more lighthearted stories to work on.
I read somewhere that the MythAdventures was started when Mr. Asprin noticed himself becoming cynical and ill-tempered when writing a dark/cynical story.

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The return of ‘The X-Files’: What fans want and don’t want

At last “The X-Files,” a television cult classic may return. FOX producers are talking about David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reviving the roles of FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. If all goes well, hardcore fans await with joy. There are things which fans want to see return to the television series and some aspects that need to be cast off.

Bring back:

1. The unusual investigations which made “X-Files” famous. Investigations where the mundane turned into the fantastical.
2. The playful intellectual banter between Mulder and Scully. Their friendship and loyalty made the series.
3. The Lone Gunmen: John Fitzgerald Byers (Bruce Harwood), Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood), and Richard Langly (Dean Haglund). These men were the perfect "conspiracy believing" minions. It is regrettable their spin-off, “The Lone Gunmen” was cancelled.

4. Episodes involving cyber cases. Monsters on the Internet is reasonably believable.
5. Episodes which cross virtual reality with video games. Who doesn’t want to see Mulder and Scully in virtual reality versions of video games like “Halo,” “Left for Dead,” or maybe “Skyrim”?

Don’t bring back:

1. The convoluted storyline of Scully’s mysterious alien love child being a star child savior. Anyone interested in that particular storyline should watch “V: The Final Battle”.
2. Mulder being constantly abducted because David Duchovny appeared to had better things to do. Maybe Duchovny isn’t too busy anymore.
3. A romantic relationship between Mulder and Scully. Their television relationship is akin to a brother and sister. Please leave it that way. The alternative is gross.