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Danielle Deadwyler has recovered her partner for Hulu’s X-Files reboot arsenic Himesh Patel is group to subordinate Hulu’s reboot of nan classical TV series. The show precocious received a aviator greenlight at Hulu. Deadwyler is group arsenic nan co-lead successful nan project, from Onyx Collective and 20th Television. Jennifer Yale will service arsenic showrunner.
Insiders adjacent to nan show opportunity Deadwyler and Patel will beryllium playing caller original characters successful nan series.
Sinners filmmaker Coogler is penning and directing nan aviator for nan new X-Files. In it, 2 highly dressed up but vastly different FBI agents —played by Deadwyler and Patel — shape an improbable enslaved erstwhile they are assigned to a long-shuttered section devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Yale executive produces alongside The X-Files creator Chris Carter arsenic good arsenic Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler of Proximity Media. The company’s Simone Harris is simply a co-executive producer. The aviator is being formed by Sinners casting head Francine Maisler.
This summer, Patel reunites pinch Christopher Nolan for The Odyssey astatine Universal Pictures, group to premiere July 17, 2026. The movie besides stars Matt Damon, Mia Goth, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, James Remar, Bill Irwin, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, and Jon Bernthal. He besides reprises his domiciled arsenic Dr. Watson successful Enola Holmes 3 for Netflix, starring other Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter, and Louis Partridge.
On television, Himesh will adjacent prima successful Bait, a comedy-thriller bid from Riz Ahmed. He is repped by 42, WME, Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
