Gillian Anderson is hyping up Ryan Coogler‘s X-Files reboot and praising nan aviator aft reference nan script.
Hulu ordered a aviator for nan long-gestating reboot, which will beryllium written and directed by Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler.
During an quality astatine Awesome Con, Anderson teased nan pilot, revealing she had had “a fewer conversations” pinch the Sinners filmmaker, which could lead to her reprising her domiciled of Agent Dana Scully.
“He’s specified a cool feline and truthful talented,” Anderson said of Coogler, adding that “the aviator book is really good.”
“I would say, person an unfastened mind and springiness it a chance because it’s gonna beryllium f***ing cool,” she said. “It’s thing different. It’s different, and it’s special, truthful springiness it a break.”
In February, Deadline reported Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson) was group to co-lead nan aviator successful which 2 highly dressed up but vastly different FBI agents shape an improbable enslaved erstwhile they are assigned to a long-shuttered section devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Jennifer Yale (The Copenhagen Test) is group to beryllium nan showrunner of nan supernatural series.
Coogler teased nan task during a podcast quality past April, saying, “I’ve been excited astir that for a agelong time, and I’m fired up to get backmost to it. Some of those episodes, if we do our jobs right, will beryllium really f***ing scary. We’re gonna effort to make thing really awesome and really beryllium thing for nan existent X-Files fans, and possibly find immoderate caller ones.”
The original X-Files series starred Anderson and David Duchovny arsenic FBI Special Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, who analyse cases involving paranormal phenomena. The bid premiered connected Fox successful 1993 and ran for 9 seasons. It spawned 2 characteristic films, The X-Files (1998) and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), arsenic good arsenic a 2016 revival, which aired connected Fox for 2 seasons.