The truth is almost out there once again.
Deadline is reporting that Ryan Coogler's planned reboot of The X-Files has received a pilot order from Hulu. In addition, Danielle Deadwyler has been cast as the project's co-lead.
The pilot will come from Onyx Collective and 20th Television, with Jennifer Yale (The Copenhagen Test, Legion, Outlander) set as showrunner. Coogler, the director of Black Panther and Sinners, is writing and directing the pilot. Yale will serve as executive producer alongside The X-Files creator Chris Carter, as well as Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler of Proximity Media. Simone Harris is a co-executive producer.
According to the article, the pilot will feature "two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents, who form an unlikely bond when they're assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena."
Deadwyler, 43, has appeared in the films The Woman in the Yard, 40 Acres, The Piano Lesson, I Saw the TV Glow, Till, and The Harder They Fall. In addition, she's appeared in episodes of Watchmen (2019), Euphoria, The Bear, Station Eleven, and Atlanta.
Carter first revealed during a 2023 podcast interview that he had spoken with Coogler, who was "going to remount The X Files with a diverse cast," adding, "He’s got his work cut out for him because we covered so much territory."
Carter’s original X-Files starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who investigated cases involving paranormal phenomena. The series premiered on Fox in 1993 and ran for nine seasons. It spawned two feature films, The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), as well as a 2016 revival, which aired on Fox for two seasons.
Coogler confirmed the project and his involvement during a podcast appearance of his own last April. "I’ve been excited about that for a long time, and I’m fired up to get back to it. Some of those episodes, if we do our jobs right, will be really fucking scary,” he said. "We’re gonna try to make something really great and really be something for the real X-Files fans, and maybe find some new ones."
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