Ryan Coogler has been developing The X-Files reboot series for quite some time, and it is going to begin filming soon. Much like the original show, The X-Files reboot will follow two FBI agents who solve unexplainable crimes.
A few weeks earlier, as Variety reported, Danielle Deadwyler was cast to play one of the leads in the show. Now, a release window for the show has been revealed as well.
The X-Files reboot will begin filming soon
Created by Chris Carter, The X-Files aired on Fox from 1993 to 2002 and then again from 2016 to 2018. It starred David Duchovny and Gilligan Anderson as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, respectively, two FBI Special Agents who solve strange cases together.
Coogler has wanted to reboot the series for quite some time because it is his mother’s favourite show. As he toldVariety in October 2025 at the Sinners screening at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery:
“Like my relationship with ‘Rocky’ with my dad, ‘The X-Files’ is one of those things with my mom.”
He continued:
“My mom means the world to me — she’s actually here tonight — so this is a big one for me. I want to do right by her and the fans. My mom has read some of the stuff I wrote for it. She’s fired up.”
The show is finally getting made, and has received a pilot order at Hulu. Now, as Nexus Point News reports, The X-Files reboot will be filmed from May to June 2026 in Vancouver, Canada. The show will reportedly also feature five more characters in the pilot episode, and casting for those characters is currently underway.
Danielle Deadwyler is going to play one of the lead characters, presumably one of the FBI agents at the centre of the reboot’s premise. Deadwyler is also known for playing Mamie Till in Till (2022), Berniece Charles in The Piano Lesson (2024), Ramona in The Woman in the Yard (2025), and will also star in The Saviors (2026) and The Chaperones. More cast details will be revealed in due time.
According to Variety, the reboot’s logline reads:
“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.”
Ryan Coogler, best-known for executive producing Ironheart (2025), writing and directing Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), and directing, writing, and producing Sinners (2025), is the writer, producer, and director of The X-Files reboot series. Jennifer Yale, known for being a co-showrunner on The Copenhagen Test and executive producer on Your Friends & Neighbors, will serve as showrunner of the upcoming The X-Files reboot series.
Sev Ohanian, Zinzi Coogler, creator of the original series, Chris Carter, and Simone Harris will executive produce the show. Proximity Media, Onyx Collective, and 20th Television are the studios behind the pilot. The show is at an early stage of development, and thus, a release window is yet to be confirmed. Stay tuned for more information.
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Edited by Amey Mirashi