David Duchovny to direct episode of Bones

It would be nice to see David Duchovny again. Oh, by the way, has anyone else seen the weird X-Files comparison to Bones? Booth is Mulder, Bones is Scully, the three people in the lab are the Lone Gunmen, and the lady boss is Skinner. It's all way too much alike to be coincidental. I think this is why David's directing it right now, because he misses X-Files. To him it's like working on the X-Files again.

I don't have any delusions of the X-Files returning by any means. I'm just wishing out loud, and if you're going to wish, why waste it on something mediocre?

Now if I were wishing for something I thought could actually happen, it might be for X-Files movies (for my tastes, preferably on television). Maybe one or two a year, but even then it's likely a stretch.

OK, let's say that a weekly television show is the prime goal an actor should be pursuing, can you give me an example of a single show where the desire of the actors to return to it actually could bring about it coming back? And I might be working with out of date information but I thought that Carter and company were trying as of this spring, to get an X-Files movie off the ground to which both D and A were happy to take part in.

I feel too often when talking about beloved shows like the X-Files other work that the actors have done (and Anderson has done a lot of work in the West End on stage) is completely disregarded. Sorry if that is not where you were going with your comment.

By the way, I was and still am a huge fan of The X-Files and would be more than pleased to see those characters and that world return. But I don't see it ever coming back to series television.

Let's see, Dara. Gillian's been in one movie worth mentioning and one BBC series that aired on PBS over six installments. Yeah, I'd still say that's "largely missing", and doubly so when you consider she was on-air weekly with The X-Files.

Oh, but thanks for the "genre" insult anyway.

I wish Dave Dutchoven did have a film career -- but so far he has chosen clunkers and junkers. Maybe he should take some lessons from Johnny Depp -- someone who actually got it right.


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Gillian Anderson can hardly be called missing when she can currently be seen in a movie that is already being talked about as Oscar fodder, The King of Scotland. Not to mention a starring role in last years Emmy nominated Bleak House.

Or is it just that she is not doing genre films anymore that makes her work somehow not count?

Also in an interview with Emily Deschanel, she mentioned that her dad, Caleb Deschanel a renowned cinematographer, might direct an episode this season.

David Duchovny directing the show that has the main's chemistry constantly compared to his and Gill's, interesting.

Duchovny has repeatedly said that, while he doesn't ever want the grind of a TV series again, he'd be more than happy to do a movie. (My understanding is that the idea has been in studio hell pretty much since the first movie ended.)

Direct from the "Beating A Dead Horse" department:

Why can't Duchovny and Anderson, who both seem to be largely missing from the world of entertainment lately, just get over themselves and re-start X-Files? And I don't mean a motion picture or tv movies, but a weekly, show-em-we-still-got-it series as good as the original. Maybe I should put down the crack pipe, but one can dream, can't one?

wait, since when does Duchovny have a film career? he's barely been in anything worth watching since the x-files ended. Must be too busy with his burgeoning dog food commercial voice over career...