What happens when you take the director of the best movie of 2025 (Sinners), the newly minted Oscar-winning star of one of the other best movies of 2025 (Weapons), and set them to work together on a reboot of one of the greatest TV shows of all time? Frankly, we don’t know — but we are about to find out, folks. Per Deadline‘s reporting, Ryan Coogler’s upcoming The X-Files reboot at Hulu has just set its guest stars — and leading a starry array of supporting players is none other than Aunt Gladys herself, Amy Madigan!
In recent months, we’ve already learned that Himesh Patel will be playing the (figurative) Mulder to Danielle Deadwyler’s (figurative) Scully in Coogler’s Hulu-bound reboot pilot, with the duo set to play a pair of chalk-and-cheese detectives ‘assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena’. And now we’ve got another eight names in total to add to the project’s exciting call sheet, including the above-mentioned Madigan. Also seeking the truth and dabbling in unexplained phenomena in Coogler’s retooling of Chris Carter’s cult classic series will be Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrad, and — last but not least — Sofia Grace Clifton.
Set to be written and directed by Coogler, with Jennifer Yale serving as showrunner, although The X-Files reboot may still seem like a bit of a pipe dream to some (especially those of us still licking our Buffy: New Sunnydale wounds *sigh*), with each new casting announcement we find ourselves wanting to believe just that little bit more that this thing is actually happening. Let’s face it, who doesn’t want to see Oscar winner Ryan Coogler direct Oscar winner Amy Madigan in a prestige reimagining of the show that gave us Vince Gilligan, the Scully effect, and that one episode with the invisible pregnant elephant? Yeah —nobody, that’s who!
