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PEOPLE & ARTSFriday 22 January 2016
Mulder, Scully, paranoia return in ‘The X-Files’ reboot
LYNN ELBER
AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The
X-Files” creator Chris Carter
is pleased to update the
original template with his
21st-century unease. Gillian
Anderson and David Duch-
ovny are glad to be playing
opposite each other again
as Scully and Mulder.
And admirers likely will do a Current events and fig-
happy dance to the Fox TV
drama’s eerie theme music
as it returns with a six-epi- rity Agency leaker Edward
sode limited run.
The two-part opener is
scheduled to air at 10 p.m.
EST Sunday, immediately
after the end of the NFL’s
NFC championship game
on Fox, and at 8 p.m. EST
Monday. Subsequent epi-
sodes also air at 8 p.m.
Monday EST.
Will the reboot retain the
dark magic of the original
TV series, which in its 1993- being spied on and don’t
2002 lifespan offered a
wildlyentertaining blend of
government conspiracies,
otherworldly suspense and
black comedy that was
placed in the hands of two
unknown but charismatic
actors?
Creator and executive pro-
ducer Carter offers assur-
ances, but with the caveat
that he insisted on more
than an exercise in nostal-
gia for the franchise that
included two big-screen
movies.
“Someone said to me,
‘Great, a victory lap,’”
when the new project
was announced, he said.
“That’s the opposite of why
we came back. We didn’t
want to do something that
‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’ release delayed to Dec. 2017
JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — There is
a disturbance in the force.
The release of “Star Wars:
Episode VIII” has been de-
layed from May 2017 to
Dec. 15, 2017, the Walt Dis-
ney Co. announced this
week. The date change
postpones the next “Star
Wars” installment set to fol- for the delay, but rumors
low the box-office hit “The
Force Awakens.”
Though “Star Wars” was
once synonymous with the
summer blockbuster, the

This photo provided by FOX shows, David Duchovny, left, as Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson as son said.
Dana Scully in the “Founder’s Mutation” season premiere, part two, episode of “The X-Files,” airing “There’s something that’s
Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, 8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT on FOX. missing in Scully’s life, and
that thing is clearly Mul-
(Ed Araquel/FOX via AP) der. Both of them feel dis-
connected from the world
reworked old material or One tricky aspect is bal- rector Walter Skinner in the and themselves because
was just a sequel to what ancing the interests of “X- original series; William B. they’re missing a limb,” she
we’d done before. I want- Files” devotees and poten- Davis as the shadowy Cig- said.
ed to make something tial newcomers. arette Smoking Man; and, She and Duchovny have
fresh and original.” “We have to be respectful despite their deaths, the moved on to a variety of
of people who are familiar beloved conspiracy-theory on-screen and other proj-
ures proved helpful, Carter with the show so we don’t geeks known collectively ects, including writing (both
said, citing National Secu- beat them over the head as the Lone Gunmen. have published novels),
with things they know,” “No one is every truly dead and, in Duchovny’s case,
Snowden, WikiLeaks found- Carter said. on ‘The X-Files,’” Carter music. But they said return-
er Julian Assange and “I think our approach is art- said, drolly. ing to the “X-Files” fold, with
eroding personal privacy ful in what it gives fans and Newcomer Joel McHale is Carter again in charge, felt
as examples. what it will provide non- onboard as Tad O’Malley, right.
“These are interesting and fans.” a news anchor. “Chris is a serious person
heady times, and perfect He’s joined in the cause by In the first go-round, FBI and an artist. And if he says
for telling ‘X-Files’ tales,” members of the creative agent Fox Mulder was driv- he’s got a way to make it
he said, promising a series team that helped make en to prove the govern- work, I trust that,” Ducho-
more directly topical than the first series a sensation, ment was hiding evidence vny said.
the original. “We deal with with Darin Morgan, Glen of aliens on Earth. Fellow Said Anderson: “There were
fear in a lot of different Morgan and James Wong agent Dana Scully was his aspects of it that felt ridicu-
ways. ... The fact that we’re splitting writing and direct- initially skeptical colleague. lously familiar and kind of
ing duties with Carter on In the reboot, new evi- felt we never left. Some el-
seem to be raising any pro- the new episodes. dence reunites them in the ements were much more
test is a frightening pros- Also back are Mitch Pileggi, quest to uncover the truth. challenging — running in
pect for me.” who played FBI assistant di- It’s personal as well, Ander- heels,” she added, laugh-
ing.
Last summer’s taping in
Vancouver, Canada, was
arranged around her Lon-
don-based family life. But
she brought part of it with
her: daughter Piper, who
is studying production de-
sign, was on the set to gain
work experience and end-
ed up contributing to the
series, Anderson said.
Whatever work-related ten-
sion that existed between
the stars, the by-product
of churning out some two-
dozen episodes a season
and becoming instant
stars, is long gone, Ducho-
vny said.q

date change means that duction is set to begin next been planned for Christ- chises, “Pirates of the Ca-
the franchise will again look month in London. mas 2017, though few ex- ribbean,” to May 26, 2017.
to dominate movie theaters In the interim, Gareth Ed- pect 20th Century Fox to hit The Johnny Depp series re-
in the holiday season. It has wards’ “Star Wars” spin-off that date with the much- turns with “Dead Men Tell
proven a lucrative match “Rogue One” is due out delayed “Avatar” sequel. No Tales.”
for “The Force Awakens,” Dec. 16 this year. A spokesman for Fox didn’t At the same time, Sony Pic-
which has made a record With prominent release immediately respond to an tures moved two of its big-
$861 million domestically dates now staked out by email Wednesday. gest movies into summer
and $1.88 billion globally in studios years in advance One movie definitely af- 2017.
five weeks of release. for their largest franchises, fected is Steven Spielberg’s The next “Spider-Man,”
Disney offered no reason the impact of the switch im- “Ready Player One,” a starring Tom Holland and
mediately caused ripples. science-fiction release for directed by Jon Watts, shift-
have recently swirled that The new date sets up a po- Warner Bros. It’s scheduled ed up three weeks to July
writer-director Rian John- tential but unlikely head- for the same Dec. 15 week- 28, 2017. Jake Kasdan’s
son (“Looper”), who is tak- to-head between “Star end in 2017. “Jumanji” remake shifted
ing over for J.J. Abrams, Wars” and “Avatar.” James Disney moved one of its from Christmas 2016 to July
is rewriting the script. Pro- Cameron’s “Avatar 2” had other billion-dollar fran- 28, 2017.q