Duchovny announces an X-Files movie sequel

David Duchovny was at the TV Critic’s Press tour in Beverly Hills this weekend, promoting his new Showtime series, Californication, in which he plays a sex addict writer and gets to be as close to movies, sex- and language-wise as television allows. But when you get right down to it, Duchovny had real movie aspirations and except for The X-Files movie back in 1998, he’s still playing second fiddle to his wife Téa Leoni, and is back on the channel where he first made it big as the narrator of Red Shoe Diaries– as a second tier Mike Binder (and he doesn’t even write the series).

So it’s small surprise he used the Showtime platform to announce that a new X-Files movie is in the works.

As if the last ten years never happened.Duchovny stole Showtime’s Californicaton thunder by announcing that X-Files creators Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz have finally finished a script for the 1998 Fox feature based on the hit series from a past decade.

Duchovny said Carter will direct and he’ll again star with Gillian Anderson.

(FUN FACT: Téa Leoni was born Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni.)

–Tabloid Baby