‘The X-Files’ Reboot Casts Danielle Deadwyler, Ryan Coogler To Direct-Write Pilot

Sinners is undeniably the greatest success of Ryan Coogler’s undeniably great career (having previously directed Creed and the Black Panther duology), grossing an immense amount of money at the domestic box office despite being an original IP and earning a record-breaking 16 Academy Award nominations. Now, his next project is amping up, and he’s back at Disney for a reboot to the iconic sci-fi mystery series, The X-Files.

The series will be produced for Hulu by 20th Century Television and Onyx Entertainment, and has just received the greenlight for a pilot written and directed by Coogler. In addition to this, Deadline reports that Jennifer Yale will serve as showrunner for the series. Yale most recently served as showrunner on the Simu Liu-Melissa Barrera miniseries The Copenhagen Test, but has written shows such as Legion, Dexter, and Your Friends & Neighbors.

Also confirmed in today’s news was the involvement of Danielle Deadwyler as one of the two co-leads of the series, which was first reported by outlet Nexus Point News back in October 2025.

The series logline was also released, which reads as follows:

“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.”

Deadwyler will play one of these agents in this somewhat of a deviation from the original series. The original series followed two agents in a division, confined there as somewhat of a punishment, especially in the lead Fox Mulder’s (David Duchovny) case, as his love for the unknown is ridiculed and he is called “Spooky.” As you can see, both agents here will be decorated.

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