Duchovny Can't Stop Chasing Aliens
September 26 -- Let's get this straight: David Duchovny worked hard to reduce his X-Files duties so he could make it on the big screen — and the first film he's lining up is about … aliens?
Hey, why not embrace your place in the sci-fi galaxy, David — and then give it a good, hard tweak. It looks like Duchovny is willing to send up his TV hunk status in the sci-fi comedy Evolution, which is being billed as "a Ghostbusters for the new millennium."
Duchovny is in negotiations to join Julianne Moore, Road Trip's Seann William Scott, and The Replacements' Orlando Jones in the sci-fi comedy from DreamWorks, the same studio that brought us the riotous Star Trek sendup Galaxy Quest.
That Ghostbusters ref? Well, besides promising chills and chuckles, like that classic '80s flick, Evolution will be helmed by director Ivan Reitman. It's expected to start shooting before the end of the year.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Evolution is about an alien-laden meteor that crashes — where else — in the New Mexico desert. The alien organisms then evolve at an alarming rate and threaten to (dum dum dum) take over the world. It's up to a local community college science professor (Duchovny), his eccentric geologist buddy (Jones), a wannabe fireman (Scott), and a government scientist (Moore) to vanquish the alien hordes.
Perhaps the cult flick ref they were looking for was Tremors.
Duchovny's absence from half of the upcoming season of The X-Files is being explained away by an alien abduction. But just squint during his scenes with redhead Julianne Moore and you'll be able to get that longed-for X-vibe.
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