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Julianne Moore to play Dana Scully

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-we-haven't-finished-fighting-the-past-yet dept.

SlashRating© 93472 slashdottit! tm An anonymous reader writes "Hot on the heels of the news from David Duchovny that FOX and Chris Carter are finally producing the long-awaited sequel to 'The X-Files: Fight the Future', actor Gillian Anderson has announced that she will not be returning as geek fav, the delectable Special Agent Dana Scully. Instead, Julianne Moore will be portraying the hot science babe G-woman. "

113 comments

  1. First post! by xaxa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Erm... but I don't know what I'm commenting on... makes it hard to be funny y'know.

    1. Re:First post! by xaxa · · Score: 1

      Why did I just do that? Do I care nothing for my karma? Hmm... 2pm. Really sunny day. I'm going to leave the house.

    2. Re:First post! by b4stard · · Score: 1

      Sorry mate, still not funny.

    3. Re:First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've deduced that you live in the east of England. amirite?

    4. Re:First post! by xaxa · · Score: 1
      A first post was never going to be funny was it? Whenever I try and be funny it fails. Then when I'm just being normal^H^H^H^Hmyself, people video it and threaten me with Youtube until I buy them drinks; but I don't mind really :).

      Being funny online is so much harder... I mean, everyone laughed yesterday when I fell up the stairs at a tube station and walked into the wall, but online? No stairs, no walls, just Windows. What can I do?!?

    5. Re:First post! by xaxa · · Score: 1

      Central London, so you are right, for some value of "east".

    6. Re:First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      kill yourself on webcam

    7. Re:First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Now that's funny!

    8. Re:First post! by cychem1 · · Score: 1

      If I were David Duchovy I'd be excited, have you seen Julianne's work in Boggie Nights.

    9. Re:First post! by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1

      Well, we care nothing for your karma, so join the crowd.

      BTW, caring about karma is how you don't GET karma...

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    10. Re:First post! by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1

      Have you seen Duchovny's wife, Tea Leoni? She's hot. Check her out in the Will Smith movie, "Bad Boys". She has SERIOUSLY long legs.

      Both Moore and Anderson have the one usual redhead problem - serious freckles. I think Marcia Cross is about the only redhead in Hollywood who has a limited number of freckles (or has figured out what makeup to use to deal with them). She's the best looking redhead I've seen. Not that freckles are a showstopper by any means, but they tend to be a distraction from pure female beauty. Some redheads look like they've been sandblasted.

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    11. Re:First post! by adona1 · · Score: 1

      Although in point of fact, Gillian Anderson is actually blonde, and dyed her hair for X-Files...

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  2. Bah by repvik · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course. End of tfa: Thanks to 'Loof Lirpa'

    1. Re:Bah by Alicat1194 · · Score: 1

      Of course. End of tfa: Thanks to 'Loof Lirpa'

      Loof Lirpa, the only brand of lirpa that Mr Spock trusts! (now 50% off!)

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  3. O RLY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    O RLY?

  4. No way... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Without the Origional Scully, there shouldn't be a 2nd movie.. It just won't be the same.

  5. Trust No One by FrostedWheat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Especially today.

    1. Re:Trust No One by tverbeek · · Score: 1

      The truth is in here

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    2. Re:Trust No One by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Agreed. Especially because we all agree that Samantha Carter is the hottest nerd in this AND the pegasus galaxy...

    3. Re:Trust No One by sconeu · · Score: 1

      No, it's here.

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    4. Re:Trust No One by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      On behalf of Jadzia Dax... *bitchslaps AC*

    5. Re:Trust No One by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Trust, but verify.

  6. April Fools? by jez9999 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please GOD tell me this is an April Fools' joke.

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    1. Re:April Fools? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If I hadn't seen your member number I say you must be new here.

    2. Re:April Fools? by Lazarian · · Score: 1

      THIS IS A JOKE.

      GOD

      LOL

  7. Mmmmmm by saskboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mmmmmore Mmmmoore.

    Anderson is a little stuck up anyway, it's time the franchise moved on to someone better.

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    1. Re:Mmmmmm by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Funny

      it's time the franchise moved on to someone better.

      You'd like to THINK that's the reason. They're actually shooting this one as a documentary, as produced/directed by Moore's brother, Michael Moore, who has specific information that there actually is a government plot that involves aliens.

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    2. Re:Mmmmmm by maeka · · Score: 1

      spent my mod points a day too early.

    3. Re:Mmmmmm by misanthrope101 · · Score: 2, Interesting
      I only liked the show because Anderson's character was so stuck up. I dug the ice-maiden thing. When they made her more human and vulnerable (i.e. after I saw her cry) I started to lose interest. The off-putting "why do you exist again?" raised-eyebrow look was quite the draw.

      As cheesecake Anderson isn't that much. Even as an actress Anderson isn't that much. But neither is Moore, in either department. Moore did better than I thought she would at playing Clarice Starling, but she still is too vulnerable to play such cerebral and (to me) cold women. And I happen to like cerebral and cold women.

    4. Re:Mmmmmm by clegrand · · Score: 1

      Anderson is a little stuck up anyway, it's time the franchise moved on to someone better. ??? Sounds like you got jilted.. Did you REALLY ever have a chance with Anderson?
    5. Re:Mmmmmm by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1

      Me, too.

      And nobody can beat Jodie for doing cold and cerebral. That's why I was amused to see her doing comedy and sexy in "Maverick". In this last one, "Inside Man", she also broke tradition by being the "bad girl" of the flick. Not to mention "A Very Long Engagement", when she went over the top and did a hot sex scene - at 43!

      Jodie is hot because she is intense, not funny (but in person she can be very funny - but it's not her main personality trait.)

      Interestingly, Jodie WAS in an X-Files episode: doing a voice over. See here. It's going to be replayed this Tuesday on TNT, even!

      According to IMDB, the following is even more coincidental:

      The voice of Betty the tattoo is spoken by Jodie Foster. During the first scene in which we hear Betty convince the man (who has the tattoo) to assault his neighbor, the music playing in the background is "Doesn't Somebody Want to be Wanted" by the Partridge Family. One of Jodie Foster's earlier roles was in episode 3.18 of "The Partridge Family" (1970), "The Eleven Year Itch" in which she punches Danny.

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    6. Re:Mmmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Julianne Moore has better boobs anyway.

  8. Lame... by ktakki · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As if Slashdot on April Fool's Day wasn't lame enough, the editors have to post another site's lameass AFD "prank" (see the credit to "Loof Lirpa" at the end of TFA).

    It's doubly lame because casting Julianne Moore is somewhat credible. Now, if TFA was about Whoopi Goldberg or Judi Dench stepping in as Dana Scully, that might warrant a groggy Sunday morning chuckle (not from me, though -- too hungover).

    Me, I'd rather see Jenna Jameson star in a new XXX-Files movie.

    k.

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    1. Re:Lame... by jamesh · · Score: 1

      I thought they went well together in 'Evolution'... I'd almost believe it even on April 1 (of which there is about 38 minutes left... i should get some sleep!)

    2. Re:Lame... by turing_m · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ben Affleck as David Duchovny would be better.

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    3. Re:Lame... by Loonacy · · Score: 1

      It can't be that lame, it got over 93 thousand votes! The public has spoken.

    4. Re:Lame... by rbochan · · Score: 1

      ...Me, I'd rather see Jenna Jameson star in a new XXX-Files movie.

      Maybe as an alien or something... have you seen her lately??

      That's goatse scary.

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    5. Re:Lame... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Seconded.

      Sadly there are very few people who can come up with a decent joke. JM took over Agent Starling duties, probably looks about right in terms of complexion/hair, so the only thing which makes it not credible is that it's 1st April. There's no joke, it's just a lie. Ha-ha.

      At least something the BBC Spaghetti harvest had some aspect of surreality to it and at the time something like spaghetti in Britain was seen as exotic foreign food and (most) people didn't know much about it. Something like the "phones as weapons" is just fucking lame - everyone has a phone and surely understands that this is bollocks. It's too much about something that people know about - it you read that as credible you would have to be a fucking moron.

      I will be very suprised if anything i read today on Slashdot would raise the faintest of smiles.

    6. Re:Lame... by MasterPuppeteer · · Score: 1

      What about Garry Shandling? Oh wait! they did that already. Nevermind.

  9. Not fake by kamapuaa · · Score: 1

    This one is true, or at least the movie is in pre-production (which means it hasn't even begun filming yet and may still yet be cancelled). As for Gillian Anderson, she's taking silly bit parts in the fluffy behind-the-scenes dramas like Tristram Shandy, I don't know why she's so concerned about escaping her most famous and profitable role.

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    1. Re:Not fake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      HHAHAHA you have been pranked! not true. I want ponies!

    2. Re:Not fake by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1


      Well, actually her career is going reasonably well - just not in the United States. She's doing well in England, according to Wikipedia, having been in any number of British productions and won a number of awards doing so.

      But in the US her career is dead as a doornail compared to Moore. Here she got typecast as Dana Scully. Doing the role again probably doesn't suit her at all, given that she's spent years trying to get out from under it.

      In comparison, Jodie Foster had other reasons for not wanting to do Starling again, although reprising a role didn't interest her either. Foster had problems with the script, and I suspect she had problems with Thomas Harris, who appeared to have stuck a lot of Foster's real personality and history in tiny places in his book if you read between the lines (Harris has a rep for black satire - the whole Lector series was intended as satire, not thrillers.) So she demanded a ton of money and royalties, and the producers dumped her for Moore. De Laurentis even made a nasty crack in public about how Foster wasn't sexy enough for the role compared to Moore (he later apologized publicly.)

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    3. Re:Not fake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      A more interesting reply than I was expecting...

      Although cameo parts in two English productions, and a few episodes of a TV show, doesn't seem like a thriving career to me. In "Tristram Shandy" they kept referring to her as the X-Files chick.

  10. SlashRating fits... by Jasin+Natael · · Score: 2, Funny

    And here I thought there was no possible way that a "Slashdot Tit" button would be relevant on a story. Just goes to prove my lack of foresight.

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    1. Re:SlashRating fits... by kamapuaa · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think you mean to say, your lack of foreskin. Zing!

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  11. Ain't it Cool's Over that way by gadlaw · · Score: 1

    First post, ah such a feather in your cap. You can mark that off on your list of things to do before you die. And of course, April 1st means the day to not bother looking at Slashdot. It's funny story time.

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  12. omgponies by nbritton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I want omgponies. Who's julianne moore? I want omgponies.

  13. heels? by uber_micro · · Score: 1

    Pony heels?

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  14. Great by The+Dobber · · Score: 1

    We've got a Duchovny and Moore benchmark

    "Evolution"

    Then again, maybe the producers can say "At least it will be better than"

    1. Re:Great by schon · · Score: 3, Informative

      I actually liked Evolution.

      Although the ending was a little lame, overall it was pretty good for light comedy fare.

    2. Re:Great by Scrameustache · · Score: 1

      We've got a Duchovny and Moore benchmark

      "Evolution"

      Then again, maybe the producers can say "At least it will be better than" Did you actually watch the movie? Because, the ads made it look like the lamest toilet-humour movie of all time, but it turned out to be actually quite good.
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    3. Re:Great by locokamil · · Score: 1

      I dunno, dude. For my money, the part where one of the retard brothers shouts "blue monkey, blue monkey!" is a highwater mark in modern cinema..

    4. Re:Great by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1

      "it was pretty good for light comedy fare."

      Better than Microsoft Outlook?

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  15. Scully really isn't by chanrobi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Scully if it isn't going to be played by Gillian Anderson. I don't think I can explain it any better than this.

    1. Re:Scully really isn't by supaneko · · Score: 1

      I remember reading on Wikipedia about how Gillian Anderson wrote in her blog that she would "definitely" be playing Scully once the issues with the X-Files were resolved (lawsuits and what not). I'm a little disappointed to see that this isn't true.

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  16. Informative by Bionic_Baboon · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know, I've never been modded informative before. Wanna mod this up and make my dreams come true?

  17. So here is the way it works by jockm · · Score: 1

    ONE April Fools story is funny and clever. A WHOLE DAY of them is just stupid and tedious. One of these yearsthey are going to figure this out...

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    1. Re:So here is the way it works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is only stupid and tedious for those whose only life is hacking at Linux and trolling on /. . Get a life, get a clue.

    2. Re:So here is the way it works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's how traditional media works...slashdot does things differently.

      More specifically, most stories on April 1st are fake, but one of the implausible ones is actually true. Figuring out which one is left as an exercise to the reader.

    3. Re:So here is the way it works by dominious · · Score: 1

      you don't get it, in /. it s news for how many pranks have been made, they are not trying to fool you
      One of these years YOU are going to figure this

    4. Re:So here is the way it works by jockm · · Score: 1

      I've been here a long time, and I never claimed they were trying to fool me. What I am complaining about is that in an effort to post only april fools jokes, they post anything and everything, regardless of if it is funny. A deluge of bad humor is just that, a deluge of bad humor; or to put it another way: tedious and annoying...

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  18. Uhhh, Dana Scully == %SEXSYMBOL% ?!? by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 1


    ...the delectable Special Agent Dana Scully... Julianne Moore will be portraying the hot science babe G-woman...

    Guys, Julianne Moore was born on December 3, 1960, which would make her - gosh - almost 50 years old.

    Somehow I'm having a hard time visualizing Special Agent Dana Scully as a GMILF [Grandmother I'd like to...].

    1. Re:Uhhh, Dana Scully == %SEXSYMBOL% ?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Uhh, would you really have a problem with her?

      I wouldn't.

    2. Re:Uhhh, Dana Scully == %SEXSYMBOL% ?!? by osu-neko · · Score: 1

      Uh, Dana Scully isn't supposed to be a barely out of high school starlet. Yes, Julianne Moore is in her mid-40's (specifically, she's 46), but she's only seven years older than Anderson, and a much better actress.

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    3. Re:Uhhh, Dana Scully == %SEXSYMBOL% ?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      she looks pretty hot, although a bit on the holstein side of hawt.

    4. Re:Uhhh, Dana Scully == %SEXSYMBOL% ?!? by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 1

      I don't understand why they'd put Julianne Moore in the X-Files 2 movie with Wolverine when they already have Jean Grey? And besides, they're already done X-Files 3, where the Professor died, so how can they do 2 again? I'm so puzzled.

    5. Re:Uhhh, Dana Scully == %SEXSYMBOL% ?!? by geobeck · · Score: 1

      Speak for yourself, boy. Those of us who didn't watch the first season of The X Files from a crib think she's still pretty hot.

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  19. Anderson's career by bsandersen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had no idea that Anderson's career was going so well that she should skip this. I guess Bleak House and that one appearance on Fraiser really put her over the top. {sigh}

  20. Slashdot Editors by mdielmann · · Score: 5, Funny

    I swear to god, this is the only day the Slashdot editors actually work.

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    1. Re:Slashdot Editors by Refelian · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Slashdot has editors?

    2. Re:Slashdot Editors by skoaldipper · · Score: 2, Funny

      Slashdot has editors?
      Yes. I believe all Apple articles are written in e-macs, Nintendo submissions in Vii, and all science entries in either pico or nano. By the way, in Soviet McDonalds.ru, html mcedit you!
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  21. WTF? by Lulu+of+the+Lotus-Ea · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does anyone remember when an April Fool's joke was at least supposed to be clever or humorous.

    The idea that Moore might play the Scully character rather than Anderson doing so is a perfectly plausible one... that just happens to be false. Not false in any interesting or obvious way, just not something that happened to come about. It's about as clever making a false claim about exactly which actor (or roughly the right age and look) might be in the next James Bond film, or who might play the next villain in a Spiderman.

    Or hell, it's about as interesting as pulling everyone's leg with the "outrageous" claim I ate camembert cheeses sandwich rather than gouda... wow! I fooled you.

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  22. Only if by Lewrker · · Score: 0

    Mulder shoots first.

  23. I dont like Gillian Anderson (too much lipstick) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I did not like Gillian Anderson anyway, she wears too much lipstick. A welcome change!

  24. Note to self: by libkarl2 · · Score: 1

    /* Check for undefined side effects. Bailout on error. */
    if ( strcmp(slashdot(SDATE, &rv), "April 1") == 0 ) {
    fprintf(stderr, "Enabling workaround for Slashdot Apr 1 bug.");
    abort();
    }
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  25. Uh... who? by adamziegler · · Score: 1

    I had to look up who she was: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000194/

    Now its funny!
    Hehehe.
    ...
    0_0

  26. MOD PARENT UP - INSIGHTFUL by mcrh · · Score: 1

    More people need to know about the plight of the modern Jewish man. The parent poster is a shining beacon of truth that illuminates the sea of prejudice before us.

  27. Yeah, right... by mclaincausey · · Score: 1

    An attractive Scully? Let me check my calendar....

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  28. GWoman by Shohat · · Score: 1

    By Google.

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  29. My vote would go to ... by stoneguy · · Score: 1

    Groklaw's own Pamela Jones

  30. Tea Leoni ? by neurocutie · · Score: 1

    No ? Ok, how about...

    Fox has announced to today that Chris Carter has finally bowed to pressure from Tea Leoni to be cast in the role of Dana Scully in place of Gillian Anderson in the upcoming X-Files 2 flick. Insiders cite a long-standing jealousy between the two actresses, with Leoni refusing to allow David Duchovny to reprise his role as Fox Mulder unless Leoni could co-star. Carter admits that the script would have to be altered to play to Leoni's grester strengths in the romantic comedy genre. Leoni was quoted as saying, "I think I'm more than capable of filling that Anderson-slut's shoes. I believe I proved myself in Fun with Dick and Jane. At least I'm closer to David's height".

  31. Sense of humor shot off in some war? by Wicked+Zen · · Score: 1

    Well to all the whiners who got duped, I'd say the best April Fool's pranks are necessarily plausible. The classic, obviously, being "Your shoes are untied," which is only funny if the person in question actually looks at his or her shoes. So lighten up. You've been had. Get over it.

    1. Re:Sense of humor shot off in some war? by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 1
      Ahh yes, the classic "Your shoes are untied" - one of the greatest comedic moments possible in any person's life. That one, like this one, is fall on the floor, run-out-of-breath-laughing funny for the same reason this one is - it's so very intricate and full of second and third level auxillary meanings and Nth degree levels of intricate plotting and cleverness.

      If anything, I'd say you're underselling "Your shoes are untied." I know "Your shoes are untied" - I've utilized it and comprehended it in all its thrilling vibrancy. This, my friend, is no "Your shoes are untied." To compare it to "Your shoes are untied" is to belittle the wonderful work "Your shoes are untied" has done throughout the ages to bring rich, fullfilling laughter to our lives.

    2. Re:Sense of humor shot off in some war? by nomadic · · Score: 1

      No the best April Fool's joke is one that sounds plausible on the surface, but there's something wrong with it that you don't notice until it's too late. Making some false, but perfectly plausible statement of fact, takes absolutely no cleverness and has no humor value.

      What if I told you the capital of Tunisia was Sousse? It's not, but it's a perfectly plausible statement, if you don't know the country. Does this make it clever or funny? Have you been "had"? Not really.

    3. Re:Sense of humor shot off in some war? by Bullet-Dodger · · Score: 1

      Ahh yes, the classic "Your shoes are untied" - one of the greatest comedic moments possible in any person's life. That one, like this one, is fall on the floor, run-out-of-breath-laughing funny for the same reason this one is - it's so very intricate and full of second and third level auxillary meanings and Nth degree levels of intricate plotting and cleverness.

      If anything, I'd say you're underselling "Your shoes are untied." I know "Your shoes are untied" - I've utilized it and comprehended it in all its thrilling vibrancy. This, my friend, is no "Your shoes are untied." To compare it to "Your shoes are untied" is to belittle the wonderful work "Your shoes are untied" has done throughout the ages to bring rich, fullfilling laughter to our lives.

      On closer inspection, these are loafers.
    4. Re:Sense of humor shot off in some war? by Wicked+Zen · · Score: 1

      Here, have some grapes. Careful, they're sour. ^^

  32. Great idea for a TV series by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Imagine this: Agent Dale Cooper (from Twin Peaks) meets Agent Clarice Starling (from Silence of the Lambs) and they fight aliens and government conspiracies and... wait a moment...

  33. Where is RFC4857? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    At least that (going by track record) has the possibility of being amusing ...

  34. Ha - 15 years ago, maybe. by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 1


    Dude, that picture is like 15 years old.

    Here's what she looked like back in 2005 [almost two years ago], when was filming Freedomland [released February 17, 2006]:

    Red Scare: Julianne Moore takes off the make-up in Freedomland.

    You can decide for yourself whether or not that qualifies as GMILF material.

    In fact, compare a side-by-side of early Gillian Anderson -vs- recent Julianne Moore:

    early Gillian Anderson

    recent Julianne Moore

    1. Re:Ha - 15 years ago, maybe. by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1

      Uhm, Julianne is born in 1960 - Gillian in 1968 - which makes Gillian thirty-nine this August. Not that big a difference. It's not like Julianne is 50 and Gillian 30.

      Also you haven't seen a recent picture of Gillian, have you?

      Why?

      Because there are very few out there. I haunt SuperiorPics.com and you almost NEVER see Gillian any more. As it happens I do have some - see below.

      Her career is as dead as Bush's next plan to "win in Iraq'.

      As to looks, I don't see any significant difference between this woman and this woman. They're both freckled redheads getting long in the tooth (but not so long in the tooth that I wouldn't do either of them.)

      OTOH, I'm beginning to wonder about Julianne's career - this is the second time she's picked up a high-profile role from another actress (the first being Clarice Starling from Jodie Foster.)

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    2. Re:Ha - 15 years ago, maybe. by unitron · · Score: 2, Informative
      "Her (Anderson's) career is as dead as Bush's next plan to "win in Iraq'."

      Yeah, that 6 part Masterpiece Theater she starred in really put the nail in the coffin. Sheesh!

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  35. 46 == post-menopausal by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 1


    Dude, she's 46 now. By the time shooting wraps on this project [assuming it isn't just an April Fool's joke to begin with], then she'd be a lot closer to 48 or 49.

    Which, if you didn't take high school biology, is well past the menopausal point for most chicks.

    Scully is Mulder's love interest because HE WANTS TO MAKE BABIES WITH HER!

    And post-menopausal chicks can't make babies.

    PS: As for the "much better actress", Julianne Moore never in her life played a role that had a tenth the sex appeal of Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully.

    1. Re:46 == post-menopausal by Mikkeles · · Score: 1

      'PS: As for the "much better actress", Julianne Moore never in her life played a role that had a tenth the sex appeal of Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully.'

      Either has Gillian Anderson.

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    2. Re:46 == post-menopausal by Mad+Marlin · · Score: 1

      Evidence in support of Julienne Moore being more sexy than Scully, at least at some point in time.

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    3. Re:46 == post-menopausal by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 1

      "Dude", sex appeal has nothing to do with actual ACTING.

      Anderson is a good actress (doing TV for years tends to do that to you), but she can't really compete with Moore who is a recognized excellent actress with two Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe. Anderson received an Emmy, a Golden Globe and two SAG awards. In total, Anderson has won about 12 awards, Moore twice that at 22.

      Furthermore, acting is about experience and intensity and Moore has both in greater degree than Anderson.

      Actually I need to modify my previous statement about Anderson's career - it's dead in the US, but going well in England, according to Wikipedia.

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    4. Re:46 == post-menopausal by king-manic · · Score: 1

      iPS: As for the "much better actress", Julianne Moore never in her life played a role that had a tenth the sex appeal of Gillian Anderson's Dana Scully.
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  36. Ten Thirteen Website by LEX+LETHAL · · Score: 1

    There used to be an official website for Ten Thirteen, Chris Carter's development company. Anyone know what happened to this site?

  37. And In Other News by coyote4til7 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And in other news readers notice that (once again) every Slashdot posting on 4/1 is an April Fool's joke. Since April Fool's jokes arn't funny when you see them coming, no one is fooled. Commander Taco continues to laugh.

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  38. Suuuure by thanksforthecrabs · · Score: 1

    Of course it's a joke. Like she's too busy with *other* film projects. DD's biggest theatrical hit was the original movie --- so he has to return to pay the bills.

  39. No decent burial this one by baomike · · Score: 1

    I thought the Xfiles had gotten the burial it so richly deserved .
    I can always hope it was a 1 April prank.

  40. And already happened... by DrYak · · Score: 1

    And Julian Moore playing Gillian Anderson's part has already hapened before.

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  41. What are the odds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    that Mulder will even notice Aliens have replaced Scully - he couldnt even find his sister in How many Seasons?

  42. what? by disturbedite · · Score: 1

    not so funny....well kinda...

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  43. Not so sure this is a hoax by Anonymous+Meoward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For a few simple reasons:

    • Anderson is tired of the role, and has said so in the past
    • She most certainly does not need the money, and is free to take whatever projects she pleases
    • All other players (with the exception of Julianne Moore) probably do need the money. Especially since Duchovny's last flick was a slightly smaller bomb than the one dropped on Hiroshima
    • And besides, GA has been taking other, vastly different roles (e.g. "Last King of Scotland", "Bleak House") to avoid getting "Shatnerred"

    Mad props to her if that's the case. The whole X-Files franchise has been sucked dry of any worth for years anyway.

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  44. This isn't a hoax! by C4st13v4n14 · · Score: 0

    Everything is still in negotiations phase, but the plans are real.

    http://www.cinematical.com/2007/03/27/duchovny-say s-x-files-2-negotiations-almost-complete/

  45. Poor Julianne Moore by SimpleHarmonics · · Score: 1

    First she replaces Jodie Foster in the hannibal movies - lame Now she replaces Gillian Anderson - lame Is she now set to be the replacement redhead in movies?

  46. Trust bust by fm6 · · Score: 1

    Then there's no truth to the rumor that David Duchovny is being replaced by Anthony Hopkins?

  47. Reverse Psychology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What if this story was actually true? In that case it would actually be interesting and humorous because it did fool most people :D

  48. Quoth the IMDB by MrCopilot · · Score: 1
    After Jodie Foster turned down the chance to reprise her Oscar-winning role of Clarice Starling in Hannibal (2001), several actresses were considered for the part - Moore triumphed over such contenders as Helen Hunt, Gillian Anderson and Cate Blanchett

    Hmmm.

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  49. In other news by wolverine1999 · · Score: 1

    In another news, broadcast on 1st April 2007, on PBS (a national tv station in Malta) it was reported that Nuclear Fuel (looking like Black Oil) was found in Malta near the prehistoric sites of Hagar Qim, using Google Earth. NASA Confirmed that this fuel is only in use for interstellar travel and thus it is believed that the Stonehenge-like stones of Hagar Qim are actually the remains of some interstellar starship. A real Malta X-Files and I would not be surprised to see Mulder and Scully come over to investigate this new discovery.

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  50. Re:Well if it is true IDC! by Xman73x · · Score: 0

    Well It really doesn't matter to me if shes going to play Danna Scully..Juliane Moore: I've been waiting a long time for X-Files 2! Its been 9 years! Fight The Future:.Heck they even had a T-Shirt that said Generation X Trust No one! lol...I hope they finally make the Movie.I miss The X-File series.