On Wednesday’s episode of the In the present day present, Gillian Anderson talked about Ryan Coogler‘s rumored reboot of the long-running sci-fi collection.

Anderson performed FBI Particular Agent Dana Scully on The X-Recordsdata from 1992 to 2002.

“It’s so humorous as a result of for many of my life, since I’ve completed The X-Recordsdata, each interview I do, individuals have requested and the reply has at all times been, ‘Nope, not going to occur, not going to occur,’” Anderson mentioned “Now, Ryan Coog;er, who’s the director of Black Panther — good, good director — has approached Chris Carter to say that he needs to do a tackle it, and I can’t consider a greater method round for a reboot to occur.”

Calling Coogler “a little bit of a genius,” Anderson mentioned that “there’s an opportunity [a reboot will] occur.”

She added, “Whether or not I’m concerned in it’s a entire different factor. I’m not saying no. I feel he’s actually cool and I feel if he did it, it might in all probability be performed extremely effectively. And possibly I’ll pop in for a little bit one thing one thing.”

Anderson was beforehand concerned in a two-season revival of the collection, which ran on Fox from 2016 to 2018. The unique collection additionally led to 2 function movie spinoffs, The X-Recordsdata in 1998 and The X-Recordsdata: I Wish to Imagine in 2008.

The X-Recordsdata premiered in 1993 with David Duchovny and Anderson starring as FBI Particular Brokers Mulder and Scully, respectively. For 11 seasons, the duo investigated instances involving the paranormal. Carter mentioned the present could be completely completely different at the moment as “we’re steeped in conspiracies.”

Most just lately, Coogler launched the follow-up to Black Panther titled Wakanda Perpetually, which he co-write and directed. The movie obtained recognition on the awards circuit, together with 5 Oscar nominations.