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‘Sinners’ Director Ryan Coogler to Reboot ‘X-Files’ for Disney

  • On Tuesday, Disney confirmed that a reboot of The X-Files from Sinners director Ryan Coogler has been greenlit, with Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel set to star as FBI agents.
  • The reimagined series follows two FBI agents assigned to a long-shuttered division investigating unexplained phenomena, departing from Chris Carter's original show created in 1993.
  • Jennifer Yale will serve as showrunner, while Deadwyler and Patel play new characters distinct from the original series' agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
  • Coogler said, "What Chris Carter created is special," while pledging to honor the original series and find a new way into that world.
  • The franchise earned 15 Emmy Awards and released films in 1998 and 2008, then returned for two revival seasons in 2016 and 2018.
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Created by Chris Carter, "The Secret Records X" marked the history of the 1990s series with this duo confronted with supernatural circumstances.

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The new series features Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel.

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Disney + has announced that it will re-launch the series that has marked an entire generation. New actors are expected to play the mythical characters.

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Disney+ has formalized the production of a "reinterpretation" of the cult science fiction series "X-Files". David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are giving way to a new duo to conduct investigations related to paranormal phenomena. The first episode of this reboot will be written, directed and produced by Ryan Coogler, the Oscar-winning director of "Sinners". - It's official, the cult series "X-Files" comes back: discover the new Mulder and Scull…

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Redacción Internacional, 14 Oct (EFE).- The Hulu platform has given the green light to a new version of ‘The X-Files’ (‘File X’) that will be developed by Ryan Coogler, a recent Oscar winner for ‘Sinners’. This new version of the science fiction drama of the 1990s will be starred by Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel, who will perform [...] The post Prepares New Version of ‘The X-Files’ (File X) by the Oscarized Ryan Coogler was first published…

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USA Today broke the news in New York, United States on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.
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