The actor, who plays FBI agent Fox Mulder, said he was surprised when he first heard about plans to revive the TV show, assuming the cast would get together to do another film instead.
The X-Files has been made into two movies, The X Files in 1998 and The X Files: I Want to Believe in 2008, which earned over $260 million in combined box office sales.
Duchovny, co-star Gillian Anderson and series creator Chris Cartner have been vocal about wanting to do a third film, but the actor says he did not expect the studio to greenlight a TV series instead.
Due to other filming and stage commitments, the cast couldn’t do another 25 episode series, but Duchovny said a shortened series appealed to them.
“We all started to think, ‘I don’t mind doing it on TV if we don’t have to do a full season. We just could make it like a six-hour movie’,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
He added that Fox didn’t want to do another film after “hurting the franchise” with the second movie, which was released fifteen years after the The X-Files began on TV.
“It’s going to be the same show. It’s obviously going to be different times and the characters are going to be older and all of the things that are going to be changing naturally will change.”
The X-Files is due to begin filming this summer, and is expected to debut next year although a premiere date has not yet been announced.
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