Ryan Coogler's reboot of The X-Files has cast Himesh Patel in the male lead role.

      A few weeks after Danielle Deadwyler was announced as the lead female in Sinners director Ryan Coogler’s reboot of The X-Files, Himesh Patel (Yesterday) has been cast in the lead male role for the upcoming series.

      Similar to the original show, this reboot will depict two highly decorated yet vastly different FBI agents who develop an unlikely partnership when they are assigned to a long-dormant division dedicated to cases involving unexplained phenomena.

      Deadwyler and Patel will step into the roles of the lead FBI agents, taking over from David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, who famously portrayed Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they delved into bizarre and supernatural cases while uncovering a large global conspiracy linked to extraterrestrial life. The series originally aired from 1993 to 2002, included a feature film during its run, and had a second movie in 2008 along with two event seasons in 2016 and 2018.

      Hulu has ordered a pilot for The X-Files reboot, which Coogler will be writing and directing. Jennifer Yale (The Copenhagen Test) will act as the showrunner and executive producer alongside Coogler and X-Files creator Chris Carter.

      Patel will next appear in Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated Greek epic The Odyssey, reuniting with the director after his role in Tenet, as well as in Netflix’s Enola Holmes 3, where he will reprise his cameo from the second film as Dr. John Watson, the loyal partner to Sherlock Holmes.

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