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By Michaela Gordoni
X-FILES is getting a reboot.
The new reboot, ordered by Hulu, will star THE PIANO LESSON’s Danielle Deadwyler. Jennifer Yale, who worked on THE COPENHAGEN TEST, will join as showrunner and executive producer, and THE BLACK PANTHER’s Ryan Coogler will write and direct, Deadline reported.
The series will feature two respected FBI agents, one of whom is Deadwyler. They form an unlikely bond when they get assigned to a recently re-opened division that explores unexplained phenomena.
The project falls under Coogler’s five-year deal with Disney, which owns Hulu. X-FILES caps as a three-year project.
X-FILES creator Chris Carter executive produces with Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler of Proximity Media.
Carter spoke with Coogler about his plan to “remount the X-FILES with a diverse cast.” Carter said, “He’s got his work cut out for him because we covered so much territory.”
Coogler said, “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 ******* scary,” adding, “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.”
Carter’s original X-FILES series starred Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny as FBI Special Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder. It premiered on Fox in 1993 and ran for nine seasons. There were two feature films, THE X-FILES and THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE, as well as a two-season 2016 revival.
In an interview with Josh Horowitz, Coogler revealed that he will incorporate a “monsters of the week” theme and an overarching conspiracy theory. The original X-FILES was one of his and his mom’s favorite shows, which he calls “beautiful American television.”
“Like my relationship with ROCKY with my dad, THE X-FILES is one of those things with my mom,” Coogler told Variety last fall. “My mom means the world to me…so this is a big one for me.”
“I want to do right by her and the fans. My mom has read some of the stuff I wrote for it. She’s fired up,” he said.
Coogler, 39, recently made history as the first Black person to win a BAFTA Award for best original screenplay, Variety reported.
Deadwyler will also star in an upcoming HBO series with Steve Carrell, Charly Clive and Phil Dunster, called ROOSTER.
There’s no release date yet, but the soonest fans could expect to see anything would be late this year, with a 2029 release date at the latest.
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