Julianne Moore to play Dana Scully

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. "

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First post!

[xaxa]

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

Bah

[repvik]

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

Trust No One

[FrostedWheat]

Especially today.

April Fools?

[jez9999]

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

Mmmmmm

[saskboy]

Mmmmmore Mmmmoore.

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

Re:Mmmmmm

[ScentCone]

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.

Re:Mmmmmm

[misanthrope101]

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.

Lame...

[ktakki]

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.

Re:Lame...

[turing_m]

Ben Affleck as David Duchovny would be better.

SlashRating fits...

[Jasin Natael]

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.

Re:SlashRating fits...

[kamapuaa]

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

omgponies

[nbritton]

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

Scully really isn't

[chanrobi]

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

Anderson's career

[bsandersen]

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}

Slashdot Editors

[mdielmann]

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

Re:Slashdot Editors

[Refelian]

Slashdot has editors?

Re:Slashdot Editors

[skoaldipper]

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!

WTF?

[Lulu of the Lotus-Ea]

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.

Re:Great

[schon]

I actually liked Evolution.

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

Not so sure this is a hoax

[Anonymous Meoward]

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.

Re:Ha - 15 years ago, maybe.

[unitron]

"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!