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   Mulder, Scully ready for 2nd 'X-Files' flick   
      
   April 21, 2005   
      
   BY CINDY PEARLMAN   
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   Can you handle the truth? It's about to be out there again.   
   Plans haven't been announced, but they're under way for another   
   "X-Files" movie, which will reunite David Duchovny as Special Agent   
   Fox Mulder with Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully.   
      
   "I'd like to shoot next winter," Duchovny told GLARE this week.   
      
   Of course, there has been quite a lag since the last "X-Files" film   
   in 1998.  "We did the first movie while the show was still running.   
   It was madness.  It was like a full 22 months in a row of just   
   shooting 'X-Files,'" Duchovny recalled.  "It was crazy for all of us."   
      
   Afterward, there also was a little "X-Files" backlash.  "When the   
   show ended, it was our time for people to turn on us and say,   
   'Oh, the show lost it,'" said an upfront Duchovny.  "Now, it's   
   years later and time for people to remember how great the show was.   
   Now, I hear, 'We're sorry we ever said you lost it.  Come back.   
   But is it still true you and Gillian don't get along?   
   We need to know.'"   
      
   Well?   
      
   "We get along fine," Duchovny insists.  "We e-mail each other   
   all the time."   
      
   As for plot secrets of the new "X-Files" movie, he said, "It will   
   be like one of our stand-alone episodes instead of about topics   
   such as Mulder's sister or the whole alien conspiracy.  It will be   
   more like we'll have a creature, a thing, a bad guy.  But it won't   
   be your average run-of-the-mill bad guy.  He will be paranormal,   
   weird and a megabad guy.  And Mulder and Scully will be on it.   
      
   "I see the next movie as a thriller in the vein of 'Silence of the   
   Lambs,'" he says.  "That will be different from the first movie,   
   which was more about the aliens."   
      
   He hopes to hook new fans, too.  "Pardon the pun, but we don't   
   want to alienate people who don't know about the show.  We want to   
   draw in people with this film who have never watched the show."   
      
   Speaking of which, guess who watches the show now on TNT?  Yes,   
   it's Mulder himself.  "When we were making the episodes, I'd say,   
   'Wow, some of them aren't so good.'  But now it's on TNT.  I'll   
   be flipping around.  I'll see one and say to my wife Tea [Leoni],   
   'This is really good.  And I don't even remember the story,   
   so I'm going to watch the whole thing.'  I'll get involved   
   and -- honestly -- I don't remember what happens next.   
      
   "Mostly, I'll sit there thinking, 'Mulder and Scully are cool.   
   They have that elusive thing -- chemistry," says Duchovny.   
   He also found chemistry with his wife, who stars in his   
   directorial film debut "House of D," which opens April 29.   
      
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