Read Gillian Anderson’s Touching Letter To The X-Files Fans
With the show celebrating its 20th anniversary back in 2013, it premiered on September 10, 1993, and The X-Files was back in the limelight. There was a huge reunion panel at Comic-Con in July of that year. Plus, there had been renewed talk of a possible third movie, although it’s only rumors and speculation at this point.
There was even an in-canon comic series — IDW’s The X-Files: Season 10 — that picks up where the last movie left off. Then series star Gillian Anderson, who played the skeptical Dana Scully alongside David Duchovny’s wanting-to-believe Fox Mulder, put together a letter to the show’s fans, who helped give her the career she’s enjoyed.
You can read the full letter below, courtesy of X-Files News. You might get a little misty-eyed from nostalgia, but the mention of Duchovny’s red Speedo should shake you out of it, for one reason or another…
2008’s I Want to Believe was a painfully disappointing swan song for the beloved series, slightly less tragic than Raul Julia’s final film credit being Street Fighter: The Movie.
They both deserve better, but short of time travel or resurrection technology, sadly, only one of them might have a chance for eventual redemption.
But is it too late? While the show has been off the air for decades. I have no doubt they could make a new The X-Files movie happen if Fox decided it was a priority, and they could make everybody’s schedules work.
At this point, it doesn’t look like there will be any The X-Files reunion anytime soon. That’s okay. It’s Hollywood after all.
In the end, maybe we should just follow Gillian Anderson’s lead and appreciate the awesomeness that The X-Files has already given us. And then maybe queue the series up on Netflix to get reacquainted with our old pals, Mulder and Scully.
