Danielle Deadwyler has found her partner for Hulu’s X-Files reboot as Himesh Patel is set to join Hulu’s reboot of the classic TV series. The show recently received a pilot greenlight at Hulu. Deadwyler is set as the co-lead in the project, from Onyx Collective and 20th Television. Jennifer Yale will serve as showrunner.
Insiders close to the show say Deadwyler and Patel will be playing new original characters in the series.
Sinners filmmaker Coogler is writing and directing the pilot for the new X-Files. In it, two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents —played by Deadwyler and Patel — form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
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Yale executive produces alongside The X-Files creator Chris Carter as well as Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler of Proximity Media. The company’s Simone Harris is a co-executive
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