Fresh off her Academy Awards win for Weapons, Amy Madigan has joined the cast of Ryan Coogler’s upcoming small screen reboot of “The X-Files” for Hulu, Deadline reports.
Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrad, and Sofia Grace Clifton.
Previously announced, Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files.”
Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler is writing and directing the pilot, which Hulu ordered up back in February. Jennifer Yale (“The Copenhagen Test”) serves as showrunner.
Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
“Some of those episodes, if we do our jobs right, will be really fucking scary,” Ryan Coogler had previously teased. “We’re going to try to make something really great, and make something for the real ‘X-Files’ fans and maybe find some new ones.”
Series creator Chris Carter will executive produce the Hulu reboot.
No word yet on appearances from Gillian Anderson or David Duchovny.
“The X-Files” originally ran for nine seasons between 1993 to 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
