“Sinners” director Ryan Coogler is at the moment on the prime of Hollywood off the success of his IMAX-shot vampire epic, which has up to now grossed greater than $168 million worldwide.
However the “Creed” and “Black Panther” franchise filmmaker has stated that his subsequent mission will certainly be returning to a different piece of I.P., a long-rumored revival of “The X-Recordsdata,” the beloved Emmy-winning Fox collection about FBI brokers investigating the U.S. authorities’s collaboration with extraterrestrials.
Gillian Anderson, who performed FBI agent Dana Scully within the collection that wrapped on Fox in 2002 however returned for 2 subsequent seasons in 2016 and 2018, has now revealed she’s open to showing in one other model. Particularly with Coogler — the “excellent particular person” to remake it, as she says — on the helm.
Anderson stated throughout ITV1’s “This Morning” within the beneath clip that she contacted “Sinners” filmmaker Coogler after it was rumored in 2023 he could be reviving the collection. “I spoke to him, and what I stated was, ‘If anybody have been to do it, I feel you’re the excellent particular person and, better of luck, name me,’” Anderson stated. “In some unspecified time in the future, if the telephone rings, and it’s good, and it seems like the appropriate time — maybe.”
“The X-Recordsdata” first aired from 1993 to 2002 on Fox, with Anderson and David Duchovny as FBI particular brokers investigating paranormal circumstances that exposed a authorities collusion with extraterrestrials. The collection spurred two movies — “The X-Recordsdata” in 1998 and “I Wish to Imagine” in 2008 — along with its follow-up seasons.
“The X-Recordsdata” reboot as described by Coogler was first revealed by authentic collection creator Chris Carter throughout the “On the Coast” podcast in 2023. “I simply spoke to a younger man, Ryan Coogler, who’s going to remount ‘The X-Recordsdata’ with a various solid,” Carter stated on the time. “So he’s bought his work lower out for him, as a result of we coated a lot territory.”
After that announcement, Anderson deemed Coogler a “little bit of a genius” throughout the “Immediately” present in 2024.
“It’s so humorous as a result of for many of my life, since I’ve completed ‘The X-Recordsdata,’ each interview I do, folks have requested and the reply has all the time been, ‘Nope, not going to occur, not going to occur,’” Anderson stated. “Now, Ryan Coogler, who’s the director of ‘Black Panther’ — good, good director — has approached Chris Carter to say that he needs to do a tackle it, and I can’t consider a greater means round for a reboot to occur.”
She added, “Whether or not I’m concerned in it’s a complete different factor. I’m not saying no. I feel he’s actually cool, and I feel if he did it, it might in all probability be finished extremely properly. And perhaps I’ll pop in for a bit one thing one thing.”
Coogler later confirmed his involvement throughout the “Final Podcast on the Left” in 2025, saying that he’ll return to growing the collection after “Sinners.”
“I’ve been enthusiastic about that for a very long time, and I’m fired as much as get again to it,” he stated. “A few of these episodes, if we do our jobs proper, can be actually fucking scary. We’re going to attempt to make one thing actually nice and actually be one thing for the true ‘X Recordsdata’ followers, and perhaps discover some new ones.”
Anderson has spoken out about her difficult emotions on returning to “The X-Recordsdata” earlier than. In 2016, she made headlines when she revealed she demanded pay parity along with her co-star Duchovny, whom she stated was provided twice in pay what she was for her return to the 2016 collection revival.