Hulu has moved Ryan Coogler‘s version of The X-Files past the pilot stage, handing the reboot a full series order, according to a report from Deadline. Coogler wrote and directed the pilot himself, and with the order now official, the streamer is committing to a complete first season.
The premise keeps the show’s central premise intact while swapping in new investigators: two FBI agents, played by Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel, get assigned to a long-shuttered division built to chase cases that resist any rational explanation. It’s the kind of uncanny, bureaucratic dread that made the original The X-Files run for nine seasons and two films, and the new version leans into that same tension between institutional skepticism and whatever dark truth is actually out there.
Supporting cast includes Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand and Sofia Grace Clifton, though character details have not been made public.
Chris Carter, who created the original series, signs on as a non-writing executive producer while Coogler’s Proximity Media partners Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler also serve as non-writing executive producers, with Onyx Collective and 20th Television attached as studios.
In a statement, Coogler said he has “loved The X-Files for a long time,” crediting Carter’s original series with shaping how he thinks about paranoia, government secrecy and the unexplained on screen.
Whispers that original stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny could reappear in some capacity have circulated since the project was first announced, but nothing has been confirmed so stay tuned on this channel…
