Danielle Deadwyler is set to lead the upcoming new The X-Files reboot!

The 43-year-old SAG Awards-nominated actress has been cast to star in the series from Ryan Coogler, according to The Wrap.

In addition, Hulu has given a pilot episode order for the reboot, which has been in the works for a few years now.

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Ryan Coogler, who is currently nominated for three 2026 Oscars for Sinners, is set to write, direct and produce the pilot episode. The Copenhagen Test‘s Jennifer Yale will serve as showrunner.

Here’s a synopsis: “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.”

Original The X-Files creator Chris Carter will also serve as a producer, per Deadline, and back in 2024, said he will be championing the new reboot!

“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*cking scary,” Ryan said on Last Podcast On The Left last year. “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.”

Ryan‘s recent hit movie Sinners made Oscars history with it’s nominations earlier this year!