Gillian Anderson is a believer in Ryan Coogler‘s X-Files reboot.
A new version of the iconic sci-fi series from the Oscar-winning filmmaker has been in the works since 2023, but Hulu officially gave the green light for a pilot last month, with Station Eleven’s Danielle Deadwyler set to star. And yet, that doesn’t mean that the original X-Files leading lady is no longer in the mix.
“We’ve had a few conversations,” Anderson recently said of Coogler at Awesome Con. “He’s such a cool guy, and so talented. And the pilot script is really good. I would say, have an open mind and give it a chance, because it’s gonna be f—ing cool. It really is.”
Anderson added that the project is “different” and “special,” so fans should “give it a break.”
New ‘X-Files star Danielle Deadwyler
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Created by Chris Carter, The X-Files premiered in 1993 on Fox, starring Anderson and David Duchovny as Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, respectively, a pair of FBI agents who are tasked with investigating unsolved cases that appear to have a paranormal aspect to them. Anderson’s Scully is a skeptic, while Duchovny’s Mulder is a true believer and conspiracy theorist. The X-Files ran for nine seasons, before returning for two revivals in 2016 and 2018. The series also spawned a pair of feature films.
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“I’ve been excited about that for a long time, and I’m fired up to get back to it. Some of those episodes, if we do our jobs right, will be really f—ing scary,” Coogler teased last year of his X-Files reboot. “We’re gonna try to make something really great, and really be something for the real X-Files fans, and maybe find some new ones.”
The Sinners mastermind also said that his “fingers [are] crossed” in regards to Anderson’s involvement.
For her part, Anderson previously declared that Coogler was “the perfect person” to reboot the series, even telling him to “call me”: “At some point, if the phone rings and it’s good and it feels like the right time, perhaps.”
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