Ryan Coogler’s new X-Files series has cast its male lead in Himesh Patel, who will star alongside Danielle Deadwyler. The new series, which Ryan Coogler is attached to direct the pilot episode now has it’s next generation of the Mulder/Scully dynamic. Of course, that’s not to say the character dynamics will be similar to that of early Mulder and Scully. Maybe this time they are both sceptics, for example?
Here’s the details as per Variety,
‘Himesh Patel is set for a lead role in Ryan Coogler‘s “The X-Files” reboot pilot at Hulu, Variety has learned.’
‘Patel will star alongside previously announced cast member Danielle Deadwyler in the pilot, which was formally picked up at Hulu back in February. The official logline for the show states, “Two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents (Deadwyler, Patel) form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.”’
‘According to an individual with knowledge of the project, Deadwyler and Patel will be playing wholly new characters rather than new iterations of Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully.’
Given the news we shared yesterday that Gillian Anderson has had conversations about a return, this one seemed the likely scenario. Yet, the show will still star a pair of male and female FBI agents looking into weird stories. The role actually reunites Patel and Deadwyler. The pair previously appeared together in the HBO Max miniseries Station Eleven.
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We know only the basic premise of what to expect here. Therefore, it’s tough to know what other roles we might expect to hear casting for? If I was to guess, I would say the FBI Agents will need a boss to report into. Therefore, that would be a regular character. Outside that it’s tough to say and depends where the storytelling takes us.
I’ve yet to see Patel or Deadwyler in anything, so I’ll trust that Coogler know’s what he is doing. I’m looking forward to that first episode. In the meantime though we will let you know about any other casting news for this rebooted series. What do you think of Himesh Patel being cast as the male lead in Coogler’s new X-Files series? Leave any thoughts below.
