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Himesh Patel Boards Ryan Coogler’s X-Files Reboot Pilot at Hulu

The leads will play original FBI agents rather than recast Mulder or Scully.

Overview

  • Patel’s casting, reported Thursday, pairs him with Danielle Deadwyler as the co-leads in the Hulu pilot.
  • The new agents are original characters, and neither Gillian Anderson nor David Duchovny is attached to the pilot.
  • The official logline says two highly decorated but very different FBI agents are assigned to a long-shuttered unit investigating unexplained phenomena.
  • Ryan Coogler will write and direct with Jennifer Yale as showrunner, and the pilot comes from Proximity Media, Onyx Collective, and 20th Television with creator Chris Carter as a non-writing executive producer.
  • Anderson said she read the script and called it "really good," while some outlets report a possible May shoot in Vancouver that has not been confirmed.