'X-FILES' Duchovny ready for another movie

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LOS ANGELES -- David Duchovny is ready to start work on a second "X-Files" feature film, but apparently nobody else is.
"I guess we're just in an indefinite holding pattern," Duchovny admits. "It's about Chris Carter and Fox coming to terms. [Co-star] Gillian [Anderson] and I are signed on. We're ready to go. Chris and Fox are slugging it out."
The first "X-Files" movie, which hit theaters in the summer of 1998, made around $84 million at the domestic box office and exceeded that figure internationally. The popular Fox series ended its nine-season run in 2002 and despite years of rumors, no subsequent features have advanced beyond development hell. It's not like Duchovny hasn't been busy -- his first feature as a writer-director, "House of D," hit DVD on Tuesday -- but he remains faithful to the franchise that made him a star.
"I feel nostalgia for the show in a way," says Duchovny. "I'd always wanted it to be a movie franchise."
While Duchovny has hear vague rumblings about the negotiations between Fox and Carter, he isn't aware of any potential scripts, much less story arcs for the film.
"I don't think that's the way anybody does business -- nobody writes until they're getting paid to write," he says.