The hunt for the reality out there may be again on. Ryan Coogler‘s long-gestating The X-Files reboot has obtained a pilot greenlight at Hulu. Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson) is about because the co-lead within the mission, from Onyx Collective and twentieth Television. Jennifer Yale (The Copenhagen Test) has come on board as showrunner, Deadline can reveal solely.
Sinners filmmaker Coogler is writing and directing the pilot for the brand new X-Files. In it, two extremely embellished however vastly totally different FBI brokers — one performed by Deadwyler — kind an unlikely bond when they’re assigned to a long-shuttered division dedicated to circumstances involving unexplained phenomena.
Yale government produces alongside The X-Files creator Chris Carter in addition to Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler of Proximity Media. The firm’s Simone Harris is a co-executive producer. The pilot is being forged by Sinners casting director Francine Maisler.
The pilot order caps a three-year journey for the mission, which falls beneath Black Panther director Coogler’s five-year exclusive television deal with Disney, the father or mother firm of Hulu, twentieth TV and Onyx.
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,” including, “He’s got his work cut out for him because we covered so much territory.”
Coogler confirmed the mission and his involvement throughout a podcast appearance of his own final 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 f*cking scary,” he mentioned, including, “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.”
In the identical interview, Coogler additionally disclosed that he had spoken with authentic X-Files star Gillian Anderson concerning the reboot, which took awhile to return collectively because the filmmaker was busy with Sinners, an Oscar frontrunner with a record 16 nominations, and different tasks, together with Disney+’s Ironheart.
With Coogler making The X-Files a precedence post-Sinners, it gained steam over the previous couple of months and Yale got here on board as showrunner.
Hulu has switched to a largely pilot improvement mannequin within the final couple of years even for its high-profile titles. The streamer’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is also making a pilot directed by Chloé Zhao.
Carter’s authentic X-Files starred Anderson and David Duchovny as FBI Special Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, who examine circumstances involving paranormal phenomena. The sequence premiered on Fox in 1993 and ran for 9 seasons. It spawned two characteristic movies, The X-Files (1998) and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), in addition to a 2016 revival, which aired on Fox for 2 seasons.
‘The X-Files’: Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson)
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Coogler’s newest movie Sinners made historical past on the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday, changing into the most decorated movie by a Black director. The movie gained three awards, together with Best Original Screenplay for Coogler’s script. The movie, starring Michael B. Jordan, has amassed over $365 million globally. Coogler is the founding father of manufacturing firm Proximity Media alongside companions Zinzi Coogler and Ohanian. He is repped by WME, M88 and Cohen and Gardner.
Deadwyler is about to star within the upcoming HBO comedy sequence Rooster alongside Steve Carell, Charly Clive and Phil Dunster. She can be seen in upcoming Season 3 of Euphoria, and in The Saviors, an American darkish comedy thriller directed by Kevin Hamedani. She lately appeared in The Woman within the Yard, serving as an government producer on the movie, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. She’s repped by Paradigm, Play Management and Ziffren Brittenham.
Yale most lately government produced and co-showran The Copenhagen Test for Peacock, with Simu Liu starring and Atomic Monster producing. She wrote on the Apple TV sequence Your Friends and Neighbors and earlier than that was author/government producer on Apple’s See and Netflix’s Chambers. Yale is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, CAA and Hansen Jacobson.
Carter is repped by CAA and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, Inc.
