Black Panther director Ryan Coogler rebooting X-Files, says creators

Sci-fi drama The X-FilesWith the possibility that we may soon be able to go back in time, Black Panther Creed director Ryan Coogler at the helm of a new reboot, according to the series’ original creator, Chris Carter. In a recent episode of CBC Radio’s Coast, Carter told interviewer Michelle Eliot that Coogler plans to “remount The X-Files with a diverse cast.”

Carter said that he’d recent spoken to Coogler, who had told him about his idea to revive the franchise. Carter did not provide further details, only adding that Coogler has “got his work cut out for him, because we covered so much territory.” Reps for Coogler have not responded to a request for comment. Polygon reached out to Carter as well for clarification and will provide updates when the producer replies.

It’s not clear what form a new X-Files project would take, or on which platform or network it would air; but Carter posited that a more modern version of the show would need major changes. “We’re so steeped in conspiracies now,” he told the CBC. “The X-Files dealt with a central conspiracy, but now the world is so full of conspiracies that I think that it would be a different show.”

The X-FilesThe series ran 11 seasons. It had a nine-season initial run in 1993, 2002 and then two more seasons in 2016, 2018 and 2016. Carter also wrote and produced two films, 1998’s The X-Files – Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to BelieveIt was a quick-lived spinoff. The Lone Gunmen.

Coogler’s most recent movie, Wakanda Forever: Black PantherThe film was released in movie theatres on November 20, 2022. The writer-director will also executive produce Marvel’s Ironheartseries, and is currently developing a series in Wakanda that will be available on Disney Plus. Coogler worked as producer. Creed IIIMichael B. Jordan directed the film “The Assassins”.