Ryan Coogler’s long-awaited revival of The X-Files has landed a pilot greenlight at Hulu, according to a report on Deadline.
Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson) has been cast as a co-lead in the project, which hails from Onyx Collective and 20th Television. Meanwhile, Jennifer Yale (The Copenhagen Test) has joined the series as showrunner.
During a podcast appearance in April 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 f*cking scary. 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.”
Created by Chris Carter and premiering on September 10, 1993, the original The X-Files centered on Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny as FBI Special Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, partners tasked with probing unexplained and paranormal cases.
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