Julianne Moore to play Dana Scully

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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. "

Bah

[repvik]

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

Trust No One

[FrostedWheat]

Especially today.

Mmmmmm

[saskboy]

Mmmmmore Mmmmoore.

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

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.

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.