The truth is out there again — and this time it has a series order. Hulu has officially picked up Ryan Coogler's reimagining of The X-Files for a full season, moving the project past the pilot stage and putting two brand-new FBI agents in charge of the bureau's strangest case files.
Hulu announced the series order on Tuesday, October 13, confirming that Coogler's take on Chris Carter's 1990s classic will move forward. Coogler wrote and directed the pilot, which was filmed earlier this year, and stays on as an executive producer, with Jennifer Yale serving as showrunner.
The new series follows two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena. Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel lead the cast as the two agents — entirely new characters, not new versions of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully — and both also serve as co-executive producers. Their character names have not been announced yet.
"I've loved The X-Files for a long time, so getting the chance to write and direct the pilot has meant a great deal to me," Coogler said in Hulu's announcement. He added that the team wanted "to honor everything that made the original series connect with so many people while also finding our own way into that world," and praised Deadwyler and Patel for the original perspectives they brought to the roles. Patel spoke about the pilot earlier this summer after filming wrapped: "We shot the pilot. It was very special."
The pilot's guest cast underlines the scale of the production: Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton all appear in the first episode, which features a score by Ludwig Göransson, Coogler's longtime collaborator on Black Panther and Sinners.
The series comes from Onyx Collective and 20th Television, in association with Coogler's Proximity Media. Executive producers include Coogler, Yale, Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and original series creator Chris Carter — though Carter has described his own role as a hands-off one, saying he plans to watch the new series as a fan. The project, developed under Coogler's overall television deal with Disney, has been in the works since 2023, when Carter first revealed that Coogler was planning to remount the show with a new cast.
The original The X-Files premiered on Fox in 1993, ran for nine seasons, and returned for two revival seasons, making David Duchovny's Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Scully two of the most recognizable investigators in television history. Whether either actor will appear in the new series has not been confirmed. Hulu has not announced a premiere date for The X-Files.
Source: Hulu
