{"id":2296213,"date":"2026-02-23T21:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2296213"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:02:22","slug":"the-x-files-reboot-casts-danielle-deadwyler-to-star-ryan-coogler-to-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-x-files-reboot-casts-danielle-deadwyler-to-star-ryan-coogler-to-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The X-Files\u2019 Reboot Casts Danielle Deadwyler to Star, Ryan Coogler to Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0218858\/\">Hulu<\/a>\u2019s revival of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106179\/\">The X-Files<\/a> is moving forward and the project has cast its first co-lead.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4314990\/\">Danielle Deadwyler<\/a> has landed one of the two coveted starring roles in the series.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1036868\/\">Sinners<\/a> filmmaker <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3363032\/\">Ryan Coogler<\/a> \u2014 who has long been attached to the show \u2014 is now confirmed to both write and direct the pilot, which has been officially greenlit.<\/p>\n<p>The new show\u2019s official description: \u201cTwo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This logline is slightly different from the premise of Fox\u2019s original, which debuted in 1993 and ran for nine seasons and spawned two movies. The original series kicked off with Agent Dana Scully (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000096\/\">Gillian Anderson<\/a>) being assigned to the paranormal division to help debunk true believer Agent <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0289076\/\">Fox Mulder<\/a>\u2019s (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000141\/\">David Duchovny<\/a>) work.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1734038\/\">Jennifer Yale<\/a> (See, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31314791\/\">The Copenhagen Test<\/a>) will serve as showrunner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hulu\u2019s revival of The X-Files is moving forward and the project has cast its first co-lead. Danielle Deadwyler has landed one of the two coveted starring roles in the series. In addition, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler \u2014 who has long been attached to the show \u2014 is now confirmed to both write and direct the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2296214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2296213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018The-X-Files-Reboot-Casts-Danielle-Deadwyler-to-Star-Ryan-Coogler.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296215,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296213\/revisions\/2296215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}