Kevin Winter/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — On Tuesday night’s Late Show, David Letterman welcomed David Duchovny, who spoke about the anticipated return of The X-Files, which is coming back to Fox as a limited run series.
“When they developed Spanx, I knew I had a shot at coming back,” quipped the now 54-year-old actor, who first starred as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder back in 1993.
Duchnovny explained that Gillian Anderson will return as his partner, Dana Scully, a medical doctor and FBI Agent with deliberately skeptical eyes who accompanied Mulder on paranormal cases.
Both characters eventually left the bureau behind, but still followed the strange, in the 2008 movie X-Files: I Want to Believe, which under-performed at the box office. The success of the limited-run 24: Live Another Day, however, sparked new life into an X-Files revival.
On Letterman’s show, Duchovny assured fans all their favorites would also return. “Mitch Pileggi will come back,” the actor said, referring to the man who played the agents’ hard-nosed boss, FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner.
“The Cigarette Smoking Man, if this means anything to anyone, will be coming back,” said Duchovny of the mysterious, fan favorite baddie played by William B. Davis.
After being off the air “forever,” Duchovny allows, “It’s a strange phenomenon that people still want to see those characters, but I’m grateful.”
The six new X-Files episodes will likely be shot this summer.
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