Coogler's X-Files Reboot Ordered to Series at Hulu — SkimNews
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- Hulu ordered Ryan Coogler's X-Files reimagining to series, casting Himesh Patel (Emmy nominee for Station Eleven) and Danielle Deadwyler as two FBI agents assigned to a long-shuttered division handling cases involving unexplained phenomena.
- Ryan Coogler wrote, directed, and executive produced the pilot through his Proximity Media banner, with Jennifer Yale set as showrunner.
- The executive producer team includes Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and original X-Files creator Chris Carter; co-executive producers are Simone Harris, Deadwyler, and Patel.
- Ludwig Göransson, a Proximity Media co-founder, composed the score for the pilot—described by the company founders as 'a true collaboration across the Proximity family.'
- The order caps a more than three-year journey for the project, which falls under Coogler's five-year exclusive television deal with Disney, parent company of Hulu, 20th Television, and Onyx Collective.
- Chris Carter first revealed the project in a 2023 podcast interview, saying Coogler was 'going to remount The X Files with a diverse cast' and acknowledging 'he's got his work cut out for him because we covered so much territory.'
- The original X-Files, created by Carter, premiered on Fox in 1993 and ran nine seasons, spawning two feature films (1998 and 2008) and a 2016 revival.
Why it matters: This is the marquee series to emerge from Coogler's five-year exclusive Disney TV deal, with original X-Files creator Chris Carter attached as executive producer to bridge the reboot to its source material. The Proximity Media family collaboration—Göransson scoring alongside multiple co-founders in the EP ranks—brings the in-house studio model that powered Sinners' success to television.
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