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Despite the lukewarm reception of the last one, David Duchovny is apparently itching to play Fox Mulder again in another X-Flles movie.

In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Duchovny let this out: “As far as the X-Files movie I’d like to do next, if we get a chance to do it, would be a return to the heart and soul of the mythology, which is the alien-oriented conspiracy. I think it’s natural for The X-Files to have another movie in 2012, so we’ll see if we get to do it.”

Unfortunately, it's not exactly up to him whether 20th Century Fox will want to pull the trigger on another Mulder and Scully big screen adventure. The last film in the series, 2008's X-Files: I Want to Believe was panned by critics and had only modest sales at box office despite the show's large and typically ravenous fanbase.

Duchovny shrugs all that off, saying,“I was happy with it… I have nothing but respect for [X-Files creator] Chris Carter and the writing staff."

There's not a lot of noise from creator Chris Carter, but X-Files writer/producer Frank Spotnitz has dropped clues that a third film in the series is possible, and that the significant date of December 2012 could play a vital role.

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson pose on the red carpet prior to the world premiere of The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

The actress looks pregnant, while the actor looks bored. Or, well, stoned.

As The X-Files: I Want to Believe gets closer to its release date, the film's two stars are making the publicity rounds.

Earlier this week, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson spoke with Dark Horizons about getting back into the roles they made so famous.

Question: Can you talk about getting back into these characters after a five or six year period?

Duchovny: Well, I had two weeks before Christmas of basically running around and chasing Callum Rennie who plays the running bad guy that I chase all over the place. That took a good two full weeks of running even though I know it's only about ten seconds in the movie and then Gillian and I started working on it after Christmas break.

The first two weeks I felt a little awkward and I didn't really feel like I wanted to do longer scenes. I was just fine running around. Then as soon as Gillian and I started working and it was Mulder and Scully, then I kind of remembered what it was all about and that relationship kind of anchored my performance just as I think the relationship anchors this film.

Mulder and Scully are back in The X-Files: I Want to Believe.

Anderson: I had a similar experience. This feels so weird. Summertime. I didn't have all the running around that David had to do, but I did have my own unfortunate beginning which was starting with one of the most difficult scenes for Scully in the film where it's later on in the script and she goes through a range of emotions in confronting Billy Connolly's character. I just had a really hard time for those first couple of days.

I had a really hard time just finding her, finding her voice. I think I must've gone through ten other characters in the process of trying to get to her when I had assumed that I would be able to show up on the first day and it would just be there. It wasn't until I think day three when we got to work together, not just necessarily in a familiar environment which it really wasn't, but in the environment of each other and the relationship and that it kind of felt natural and familiar and I felt like I'd landed this time.