Exclusive reports have confirmed cast updates for the Hulu reboot of the smash-hit, cultural-phenomenon sci-fi series The X-Files, led by horror and Marvel filmmaker Ryan Coogler, the Academy Award-winning name behind Black Panther, Creed and the history-maker Sinners.
Created by Chris Carter, the original series, which aired on Fox from 1993 to 2002, focused on an FBI duo investigating a series of unusual events, with one suspecting foul play by a man and the other convinced that extraterrestrial life is the culprit. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny became some of the signature faces of the decade through their central roles.
Now, the show is due for a revamp led by Coogler, who has reportedly added Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, and Devery Jacobs, having previously cast Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler.
Additional names now credited on the show include Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand and Sofia Grace Clifton.
“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,” reads the premise for Coogler’s re-telling of the show.
Carter’s X-Files series gracefully took inspiration from shows which came before it, such as The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from the Darkside, Twin Peaks, and lastly Kolchak: The Night Stalker, to add to such supernatural material and create one of TV’s greatest cult shows. The series was nominated for exactly 230 individual awards during its run, winning a total of 64, including 12 Golden Globe nominations and securing five.
Coogler holds five feature filmmaking credits, breaking box-office history and making Oscar history in the process, with Black Panther becoming the highest-grossing film of all time by a Black American director ($1.35 billion, beating Gary Gray’s The Fate of the Furious, which grossed $1.2 billion) and Sinners becoming the most nominated film in Oscar history (16 nods, tapping out trio holders All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land with 14 nods each).
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