In terms of Gillian Anderson being concerned in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of The X-Recordsdata, it’s the supply that’s on the market.
Coogler, whose movie Sinners is now in theaters, mentioned on Final Podcast on the Left that he has spoken to Anderson, who performed FBI Particular Agent Dana Scully on the sequence for its 11-season run on Fox, with David Duchovny costarring as FBI Particular Agent Fox Mulder.
“I’m engaged on X-Recordsdata, bro. That’s what’s instantly subsequent,” Coogler mentioned. “I’ve been enthusiastic about that for a very long time, and I’m fired as much as get again to it. A few of these episodes, if we do our jobs proper, might be actually f***ing scary.”
When the podcast hosts requested about Anderson’s doable involvement, Coogler mentioned, “I’ve spoken to the good Gillian Anderson. She’s superb. She’s unimaginable. You recognize, fingers crossed there.”
He added: “We’re gonna attempt to make one thing actually nice, bro, and actually be one thing for the actual X-Recordsdata followers, and possibly discover some new ones.”
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These followers came upon about Coogler’s reboot mission two years in the past, when X-Recordsdata creator Chris Carter revealed the filmmaker would “remount” the sci-fi sequence “with a various forged.”
And one 12 months in the past, Anderson expressed an openness to the mission.“It’s so humorous as a result of for many of my life, since I’ve completed The X-Recordsdata, each interview I do, individuals have requested, and the reply has all the time been, ‘Nope, not going to occur, not going to occur,’” Anderson mentioned on TODAY on the time. “Now, Ryan Coogler, who’s the director of Black Panther — sensible, sensible director — has approached Chris Carter to say that he needs to do a tackle it, and I can’t consider a greater manner round for a reboot to occur. I believe he’s a little bit of a genius.”
She went on: “There’s an opportunity it would occur. Whether or not I’m concerned in it’s a entire different factor. However I’m not saying no as a result of I believe he’s actually cool, and I believe if he did it, it could most likely be accomplished extremely nicely, And possibly I’ll pop in for a bit one thing one thing.”