Fans of The X-Files want to believe in a relaunch.
Deadline is reporting that Chris Carter, creator of science fiction drama TV series The X-Files, is being "remounted" by Black Panther director Ryan Coogler.
Celebrating the show's 30th anniversary on the CBC podcast On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko, Carter revealed, "I just spoke to a young man, Ryan Coogler, who is going to remount The X-Files with a diverse cast. So, he’s got his work cut out for him because we covered so much territory."
Coogler, 36, is best known as the director of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Black Panther, which was the first superhero film to receive a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards, and its sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, In addition, Coogler has directed the films Creed and Fruitvale Station.
The X-Files television series aired from September 1993 to May 2002 on Fox for nine seasons totaling 202 episodes, and spawned two feature films -- 1998's The X-Files: Fight the Future and The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released in 2008. A short tenth season consisting of six episodes ran from January to February 2016. Following the ratings success of this revival, The X-Files returned for an eleventh season of ten episodes, which ran from January to March 2018.
The series revolves around Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who investigate the eponymous "X-Files" -- marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder is a skilled criminal profiler, ardent supernaturalist, and conspiracy theorist who believes in the existence of the paranormal, whereas Scully is a medical doctor and a skeptic who has been assigned to scientifically analyze Mulder's discoveries.
In other X-Files news, TVLine has word that The X-Files: Albuquerque, an animated comedy spinoff, is not moving forward at Fox. First announced in development back in August 2020, the project wasn't planned to revolve around Mulder and Scully. Instead, the series would've centered on "an office full of misfit agents who investigate X-Files cases too wacky, ridiculous or downright dopey for Mulder and Scully to bother with."
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