Fanboys, grab your proverbial hankies. Gillian Anderson has opted out of the second X-Files film, and producers at Twentieth Century Fox are reportedly in talks with the redheaded yet extremely bland Julianne Moore to take up the role of Agent Dana Scully:

Anderson, whose star has risen considerably in the past couple of years (she recently appeared in the Oscar Winning “King of Scotland”), says via her reps that “[X-Files] has been a wonderful experience, and I will always cherish my time on the series [and] the film, but the time has come to move on – I just don’t believe I can bring anything more to the character at this point. I wish the filmmakers my heartfelt best.”

Though it would be nice to see Anderson and Duchovny orgasmically resolve that Unresolved Sexual Tension, I do believe that the duo’s infamy would be better left as everlasting DVD memories. The success of The X-Files was almost exclusively based on the chemistry of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, and when Fox Mulder left the show, it sucked ass for those last few seasons. Anderson has contentedly settled into period dramas, and Duchovny, for his part, has continued to act like Fox Mulder on a bad acid trip. Julianne Moore just might be able to pull off the role of Dana Scully, since she managed relative success as Jodie Foster’s successor in those disgusting cannibal movies.

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UPDATE: As noted in several irate emails that I have received, this was a late April Fool’s joke that I couldn’t help participating in. To be honest, I thought it would be completely overlooked, ignored, or just laughed at, because generally, I am a total giveaway in regards to April Fool’s. My apologies that so many people picked up on this as a true story….the source (when clicked upon) reveals all. Now I feel like a complete asshole, which I guess is about normal. Carry on.