{"id":562606,"date":"2026-03-26T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562606\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:29:09","slug":"the-x-files-casts-himesh-patel-to-star-in-ryan-cooglers-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562606\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The X-Files\u2019 Casts Himesh Patel to Star in Ryan Coogler’s Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHulu<\/a>\u2018s The X-Files<\/a> reboot has found its second co-lead. <\/p>\n

\n\tHimesh Patel (The Franchise, Yesterday) has been cast in writer-director Ryan Coogler<\/a>\u2018s revival of the classic Fox series. <\/p>\n

\n\tPatel will join the previously announced Danielle Deadwyler as one of two FBI agents tasked with investigating paranormal activity. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Sinners filmmaker will both write and direct the pilot, which has been officially greenlit. Both Patel and Deadwyler are playing new characters \u2014 so this is not Fox Mulder and Dana Scully being recast. Original series star Gillian Anderson hinted she might appear in the project, saying she\u2019s read Coogler\u2019s script, telling a reporter, \u201cHave an open mind and give it a chance because it\u2019s going to be fucking cool.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 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

\n\tThis 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 (Gillian Anderson) being assigned to the paranormal division to help debunk true believer Agent Fox Mulder\u2019s (David Duchovny) work. <\/p>\n

\n\tJennifer Yale (See, The Copenhagen Test) will serve as showrunner. The X-Files\u2018 original creator and showrunner, Chris Carter, will be a non-writing executive producer on the series. Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler, who are Coogler\u2019s partners at their Proximity Media banner, are also non-writing EPs on the show. Proximity\u2019s Simone Harris is a co-executive producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tCoogler is considered a great get for Hulu, with the Black Panther director red hot after delivering last year\u2019s most celebrated surprise hit with Sinners, which was nominated for 16 Oscars. Among the film\u2019s Oscar wins were Michael B. Jordan for best actor and Coogler for best original screenplay. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe X-Files will be produced by Onyx Collective and 20th Television and is returning amid a widespread surge of interest in aliens and UFOs. The topic has received congressional attention with several hearings devoted to UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), recent headlines with presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump weighing in on the topic, and Steven Spielberg\u2019s upcoming film, Disclosure Day, having a premise that sounds straight out of The X-Files. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hulu\u2018s The X-Files reboot has found its second co-lead. Himesh Patel (The Franchise, Yesterday) has been cast in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,4700,58697,16166],"class_list":{"0":"post-562606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hulu","13":"tag-ryan-coogler","14":"tag-the-x-files"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}