X-Files II on the way

Alien-chasing FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully could return to the big screen for a second X-Files movie, it emerged today.

David Duchovny, who played firebrand agent Mulder, said a new movie was in the pipeline, but he did not know the plot yet.

“I’m dying to hear it,” the 43-year-old actor said.

He said he was ready for Mulder and Scully, played by Gillian Anderson, to reunite now he has taken a break from what became a relentless X-Files filming schedule.

“I’m at the point where I finally miss it,” Duchovny said.

“I wanted the grind to end, but I never wanted the show just to end.

“And I’d always had this fantasy and hope that it would be a movie franchise.

“Hopefully, this second movie will give it a foundation as such.”

He said creator Chris Carter had already approved the new story line.

“So now it’s just a matter of making sure everybody can get together at the same time and do it,” Duchovny said.

The last X-Files movie was released in 1998.