The X-Files is officially making its return to television!
Hulu has given a pilot order for the series being developed by Black Panther director Ryan Coogler. Coogler is set to write and direct the pilot episode.
Additionally, Danielle Deadwyler, who was seen in last year’s horror pic, The Woman in the Yard and Netflix’s hit thriller Carry-On, is set to star as one of the two new leads.
In Coogler’s The X-Files pilot, “Two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents — one played by Deadwyler — form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.”
Jennifer Yale (The Copenhagen Test) is the showrunner. The original X-Files creator Chris Carter will produce. While rumored, as of now, there is no word yet on appearances from Gillian Anderson or David Duchovny.
The original series aired from September 10, 1993, to May 19, 2002, on Fox, spanning nine seasons, with 202 episodes. A tenth season of six episodes ran from January to February 2016. Following the ratings success of this revival, The X-Files returned for an eleventh season of ten episodes, which ran from January to March 2018. In addition to the television series, two feature films have been released: the 1998 film The X-Files and the stand-alone film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released in 2008, six years after the original television run ended.
