Ryan Coogler Is Rebooting The X-Files for His Mom
Ryan Coogler took his mom to the movies this weekend. Speaking to Variety at the Cinespia screening of Sinners at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on October 17, Coogler gave a shout-out to his mom and credited her with inspiring his new X-Files reboot. “Like my relationship with Rocky with my dad, The X-Files is one of those things with my mom,” he said. “My mom means the world to me — she’s actually here tonight — so this is a big one for me. I want to do right by her and the fans. My mom has read some of the stuff I wrote for it. She’s fired up.”
This new X-Files has been brewing for a while. News of the show’s development broke in 2023, and Sinners, Ironheart, and Eyes of Wakanda have all come out since. In April of this year, Coogler told Last Podcast on the Left that X-Files was “immediately next” on his slate. At Cinespia, Coogler could neither confirm nor deny Danielle Deadwyler as a potential lead for the new series or guest spots from spooky alums David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. The only thing confirmed, he said on Last Pod, is that the show will be “really fucking scary.”
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