‘The X-Files’ Reboot Gets an Exciting Update for Fans of Gillian Anderson’s Scully
When it comes to Gillian Anderson being involved in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of The X-Files, it’s the offer that’s out there.
Coogler, whose film Sinners is now in theaters, said on Last Podcast on the Left that he has spoken to Anderson, who played FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on the series for its 11-season run on Fox, with David Duchovny costarring as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder.
“I’m working on X-Files, bro. That’s what’s immediately next,” Coogler said. “I’ve been excited about that for a long time, and I’m fired up to get back to it. Some of those episodes, if we do our jobs right, will be really f***ing scary.”
When the podcast hosts asked about Anderson’s possible involvement, Coogler said, “I’ve spoken to the great Gillian Anderson. She’s amazing. She’s incredible. You know, fingers crossed there.”
He added: “We’re gonna try to make something really great, bro, and really be something for the real X-Files fans, and maybe find some new ones.”
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Those fans found out about Coogler’s reboot project two years ago, when X-Files creator Chris Carter revealed the filmmaker would “remount” the sci-fi series “with a diverse cast.”
And one year ago, Anderson expressed an openness to the project.“It’s so funny because for most of my life, since I have finished The X-Files, every interview I do, people have asked, and the answer has always been, ‘Nope, not going to happen, not going to happen,’” Anderson said on TODAY at the time. “Now, Ryan Coogler, who is the director of Black Panther — brilliant, brilliant director — has approached Chris Carter to say that he wants to do a take on it, and I cannot think of a better way around for a reboot to happen. I think he’s a bit of a genius.”
She went on: “There’s a chance it will happen. Whether I am involved in it is a whole other thing. But I’m not saying no because I think he’s really cool, and I think if he did it, it would probably be done incredibly well, And maybe I’ll pop in for a little something something.”
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If you don't have Duchovny or Anderson, count me out.
It's not X-Files without them.
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Whenever they say make it more diverse I'm out. If it comes naturally in the cast search fine but when you actively search for diversity its not diverse at all.
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Hard pass on this bs
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No thanks, won’t really be X-files. Call it something else.
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Claims of a 'diverse cast' annoy me. If you write the damn thing properly, no one will care about your casting quota. Plus, when people talk about their cast being diverse, the show typically bombs.
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Yeah your right it doesn't matter if done right so why you crying ? Wait to see what it ends up being. I get it though adding any type of color to a show that hasn't really had it must be a shocker. Newsflash...there's people if all races in the FBI ..ya moron.
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No thanks. I'll just rewatch the first six seasons instead.
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If you don't have both David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, it isn't The X-files! THEY were The X-files (as in "duh"). Without them it should be called something else other than The X-files and move on.
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My honest opinion is it won't be the X-Files without David and Gillian. If Coogler wants to make the cast more "Black" than it will flop like the reboot of The Wonder Years. The original Wonder Years can't be beaten. The original X-Files can't be beaten. They were made hugely popular by Caucasians with diversity stories within them of course and a few characters but most importantly if African Americans truly want to make a name for themselves, an invention and artistic brilliance that will be beloved like these two shows than please create your own shows and movies from scratch like they did. Climbing on their backs to try to black out the white will never work out. It also looks ignorant and unimpressive to edit someone else's work to try to make it seem like it gets credit for your own particular race.
You can never truly feel like the creator of that art if it's someone else's hard work from the ground up. An edit by choosing specific races is not going to gain huge amounts of new audiences while keeping in the original huge audiences who made X-Files the success it is. Keeping the original cast while introducing an interesting new character is cool to do. The writing needs to be truly horror & crime that isn't corny because no offense but everytime a African American horror movie is made, they are horrible. Even great horror movies with a few black people in them make it not scary if it's not believable because they are mainly not right for scary movies. Goodluck
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before 2030? please.
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?? I am not sure even a GENIUS could replicate the original viewership or impact of the original X-Files, because they just t EXHAUSTED all of the possible various monsters and conspiracy theories in the world in their earlier storylines, including at least three different vampire categories, and even a unique perspective story about a brain-eating monster, told from his perspective, that had the best end quote, “I Had To Be True To My Nature!”, that made me sympathetic towards the poor guy, a reverse storyteller perspective, that they should explore in future episodes!
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Story lying
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Ok I was so underwhelmed with the last reboot that I had absolutely 0 interest in this. But Coogler? I just became intrigued
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I think it’s a good thing why do some people think the lead roles or the majority of the cast has to be one color, we live in a diverse world and our movies should reflect that. What I’m saying is allow people to see what they see in their everyday lives, make heroes of all colors, make criminals of all colors, make politicians, police, judges etc. of all colors so our children can see in this world you can literally be anything no matter the color of your skin.
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I agree! It could be great! People just don't like diversity and different groups of people! X files is about the crazy stories told. Law and order SVU had different people join when Benson became the one in charge! It's still great and I watch it. Do I miss Stabler? Yes. But I think it is still law and order SVU! It can still be great with just one of them and it depends on how the story is written! People really do not understand film and TV these days! Story writers are everything in the process and why it is a success or fails can be because of that! Period.
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I'd check it out. You never know it could be good.
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Chris Carter has nothing else to offer. Also, it appears that a few incel neo-nazis popped in to share their wisdom.
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It’s going to be some D.E.I BullS**T.
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You poor thing
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