The long-gestating The X-Files project from Ryan Coogler has found a home and one of its lead stars.
It has nabbed a pilot order at Hulu, and Danielle Deadwyler is set to star as one of two leads. The second lead role has not been cast.
Per Variety, the official logline is as follows: “Two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.”
The pilot is from Disney’s 20th Television and Onyx Collective. Those two entities and Hulu make sense, as Coogler and Proximity Media have an overall deal for television at Disney.
Coogler is the writer-director and Jennifer Yale is the showrunner
Coogler is the writer and director of the pilot and will executive produce under his Proximity Media wit hSev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler. Jennifer Yale is the showrunner, and executive produces as well. Original The X-Files creator Chris Carter is also producing, while Simone Harris is co-executive producing for Proximity.
The project has been talked about for some time, with Carter revealing Cooger was working on a diverse reboot in 2022. Coogler has then been asked about the project on and off for the past few years, with original The X-Files star Gillian Anderson co-signing the reboot and even alluding that she would be open to coming back in some capacity.