David Duchovny Isn’t Sure if He’ll Appear in Coogler’s ‘The X-Files’: “There Have Been Talks”

Alongside Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny led the 90s hit sci-fi horror series The X-Files. His open-minded character of Mulder made the perfect yin to Scully’s skeptical yang. It wouldn’t be out of line to say that the pair is one of the greatest duos to ever lead a TV series. So, of course, everyone is curious if the actor will appear in Ryan Coogler‘s reboot. But, he isn’t so sure himself.

While speaking with THR, Duchovny was asked about Coogler’s upcoming take. “I wish them luck,” said the actor. “It’s a great frame that Chris Carter came up with all those years ago — a believer and a nonbeliever tackling these mysteries. I always thought it was endlessly generative. It really comes down to the writers room for me. Because we had great writers. We had Vince Gilligan, the Morgan brothers, Howard Gordon, Darin Morgan and others. We were blessed to have a writers room that could generate 20 to 25 movie ideas. I’m not going to insult something like “The Pitt”, because that’s great television. But “The X-Files” was a movie idea every week.

So I hope Ryan doesn’t have to do 25 [episodes] and only has to do 10 or 12. And I hope he’s got great writers, because that’s really the key to making that show work.”

Duchovny added that he hasn’t read the script yet, nor has he spoken to Ryan, but, “There have been talks about certain things…there’s nothing concrete at this point.“

Continued Duchovny, “I don’t know what the world of his show is. I don’t know if my character exists in that show. It’s all hypothetical to me, so I can’t really address it.“

Duchovny sounds about as unsure of his appearance as the rest of us. Whether or not he’ll appear in Coogler’s X-Files, we’ll have to wait and see. But, I want to believe.