Martha Gellhorn and Gillian AndersonGillian Anderson knows where the real money is ... *smirk*. She's trading her FBI badge for a press badge.

Anderson, known to legions of "X-Files" fans as Agent Dana Scully, has purchased the rights to a biography of Martha Gellhorn. Gellhorn was a novelist, journalist and war correspondent who covered conflicts ranging from World War II to the Vietnam War. At age 81, she even covered the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama.

She also shared a troubled romance with author Ernest Hemingway. Like Hemingway, Gellhorn took her own life after battling a protracted illness.

Anderson will produce and star as Gellhorn, according to Variety. The 2004 biography, written by Caroline Moorehead, will be adapted for the screen by playwright and screenwriter Sharman Macdonald.

"The X-Files: I Want to Believe" opens July 25.

(Jorge Sosa is a staff writer for the Hutchinson Leader. He can be reached at sosa@hutchinsonleader.com)