BLACK PANTHER Director Ryan Coogler Is Reportedly Developing An X-FILES Reboot

BLACK PANTHER Director Ryan Coogler Is Reportedly Developing An X-FILES Reboot

It seems a reboot of classic sci-fi series The X-Files is finally coming together, with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director Ryan Coogler on board. Will Mulder and Scully return?

By MarkCassidy - Mar 29, 2023 11:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Via SFF Gazette

A reboot of classic sci-fi/horror drama series The X-Files is said to have come close to development several times over the past few years, and original series' creator Chris Carter has now claimed that a new show based on the wildly popular property is in the works - with Ryan Coogler on board!

During an interview with On The Coast With Gloria Macarenko, Carter revealed that the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director was set to "remount" The X-Files.

"I just spoke to a young man - Ryan Coogler - who is going to remount The X-Files with a diverse cast," he said. "So he's got his work cut out for him, because we covered so much territory."

The X-Files originally aired on Fox from 1993-2001, before being revived at the network for two more seasons in 2016 and 2018. The show starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who found themselves investigating strange, unexplained and usually supernatural or extraterrestrial cases. 

There were also two movies released in 1998 and 2008, but neither proved to be very popular with fans or critics.

Details on this new show are few and far between, but it's assumed that Coogler would develop (and possibly direct) the project under his five-year overall deal with Walt Disney Television, of with 20th Century TV is a part.

We're not sure if the plan is to bring Mulder and Scully back, but both Duchovny and Anderson have indicated that they're done with the characters at this stage.

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GeneralChaos
GeneralChaos - 3/29/2023, 11:09 AM
@mountainman - I applaud your bravery during this time of great struggle.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2023, 11:08 AM
Scully was a redhead. 100% she will be race swapped. we can’t have any white red headed characters these days.
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 3/29/2023, 11:10 AM
@mountainman - Let's just have a moment of silence for every comic book redhead Hollywood erased from existence.
supermanrex
supermanrex - 3/29/2023, 11:11 AM
@FilmGuy7878 - lets have a moment of silence for the brain cells i lost reading both of these ignorant comments.
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 3/29/2023, 11:13 AM
@supermanrex - First of all, I could give a f**k about race swapping but the amount of it directed towards redheads has to mean something.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2023, 11:15 AM
@supermanrex - What is ignorant about what I said? Have you not seen how many redheads have been race swapped in recent years? I didn’t give any opinions, just stated that fact.
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 3/29/2023, 11:18 AM
@FilmGuy7878 - and second of all, some of those race swaps worked. Jeffery Wright as Jim Gordon worked, Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon could have been pretty good but Father Zazlav wanted to cut some taxes. Race bending Ariel on the other hand, doesn't work in the slightest. The Little Mermaid story is supposed to take place somewhere near Denmark and maybe the Mediterranean Peninsula based on the architecture of the palace of the OG film so she should be casted with a Danish actress.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2023, 11:18 AM
@FilmGuy7878 - It is an interesting pattern isn’t it. Even if the article hadn’t already said that Coogler is planning on race swaps, you just know they can’t have Scully stay white.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2023, 11:20 AM
@FilmGuy7878 - Some race swaps are fine. I liked Jeffrey Wright as Gordon. Although no redheads were harmed, none of the race swaps in the Last of Us bothered me.I just know I saw an image recently of all of the red headed fictional characters who have been race swapped recently and it’s quite a lot.
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 3/29/2023, 11:22 AM
@mountainman - Yeah it's suspicious for sure. All I know is that Jean Grey better not be harmed, you hear me Feige!?
mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2023, 11:25 AM
@FilmGuy7878 - The thing about the X-Men is that they are such a diverse team already that race swaps are totally unnecessary. They could literally hit every demographic just pulling from existing X-Men charcaters.
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 3/29/2023, 11:33 AM
@mountainman - Exactly! Just make the main X-Men team diverse to begin with. Cyclops, Jean, Storm, Wolverine, Sunfire, Kitty Pryde, Colossus, and Beast.

Honestly the only character I would race swap amongst the people I just listed is Beast since he's blue and furry most of the time so it wouldn't matter in the slightest (my casting would be Utkarsh Ambudkar).
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 3/29/2023, 11:43 AM
@mountainman - I’ve been saying this for years. Hollywood is against red heads. They are Antii-Gingite.

But so many actors die their hair to pretend they are red heads.
They are TransGingers.

SheepishOne
SheepishOne - 3/29/2023, 11:52 AM
@mountainman - It's funny, I usually don't care much if a race is swapped unless it's a critical element of the characterization.

However, you'd have to be blind to not see redhead erasure in Hollywood haha. At this point it's almost like an inside joke.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2023, 12:26 PM
@FilmGuy7878 - That’s a good group. My roster is similar, although I’d also like to see Thunderbird or Warpath in there too. I’d add more young recruits as students. If you just go with the OG New Mutants, you get a lot more diversity as well.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2023, 12:27 PM
@TyrantBossMedia - Have there been any prominent red heads not race swapped since Ron Weasley? I guess Archie, but that actor didn’t really fit the look of the classic character either.
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 3/29/2023, 12:31 PM
@mountainman - Yeah Thunderbird or Warpath could be cool additions. And yes to the young student part, would give the Xavier's School a lot more dimension and make it, y'know, a school.
mountainman
mountainman - 3/29/2023, 12:44 PM
@FilmGuy7878 - The first few X-Men movies actually showed this decently well. None of the students got much of an arc, but they were there. Now you could introduce them in the main X-Men movie and do a spin-off movie or show focused on them.
FilmGuy7878
FilmGuy7878 - 3/29/2023, 12:47 PM
@mountainman - For sure, Xavier Academy is one of my favorite modern X-runs so I'd love to see a series adaptation of that book.
TyrantBossMedia
TyrantBossMedia - 3/29/2023, 1:00 PM
@mountainman - Richie Cunningham. 1974-1979

Lucille Ball, but she was filmed in Black and White so you didn't see her hair color.
She had two other lesser hit shows years later, but she owned the studio at that point.

Black Widow, but a) Johanssen dyed her hair to make it red so she was a TransGinger
b) They changed her hair away from that awesome red to blonde for Endgame.
But when they brought her back to red....they killed her.

Scarlet Witch, also a TransGinger (Elizabeth Olsen), and she was turned into a ruthless mass murderer.

LeeLoo from The Fifth Element was a red head, but she was a TransGinger as well.

Mary Jane Watson was a TransGinger in the original Spider-Man.
Then she was race swapped for Zendaya

Ariel as you already stated was race swapped.

A simple google search presented this...



All race swapped red heads...
Cyclone in Black Adam
Hawkgirl in the CW and Arrow
Iris West in the CW
Jimmy Olsen in Supergirl
Wally West in Flash
Starfire in Titans
Batwoman in Batwoman
April O'Neil in The Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Electro in Amazing Spider-Man 2 and NWH
Commissioner Gordon in The Batman
Heimdall in all of the Thor movies
Bow in Sheera and the Princesses of Power
Ariel (as we already mentioned)
Josie in Josie and the Pussycats movie
Rip Cord in GI Joe the rise of Cobra
Flash Thompson in Spider-Man Homecoming (but I remember his as more of a blonde)

And here is Part 2


Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man Homecoming, etc.
Lana Lang in Smallville
Alicia Masters in the Fantastic Four movie and cartoon
Little Orphan Annie in the remake movie
Cecil Horton in The Flash

There is no arguing that they are race swapping red-heads. That very Anti Gingite




Deklipz
Deklipz - 6/12/2023, 12:27 PM
@mountainman - Red hair isn't a race special kid.
mountainman
mountainman - 6/12/2023, 1:44 PM
@Deklipz - Does it have to be said that 100% of those red heads were white or are you really that daft? Like Barbara Gordon, Ariel, Jimmy Olsen and so many others? It’s a pretty clear trend that has occurred. Nobody said gingers are a race, but gingers are almost always from a UK origin and are of the caucasian race.
Deklipz
Deklipz - 6/12/2023, 2:40 PM
@mountainman - Your argument is based in racism, therefore disregarded as having no value, since it has none.
BrotherQStark
BrotherQStark - 3/29/2023, 11:09 AM
I hate unnecessary ass race swaps it devalues black characters that exist and can show up in the limelight

#recastT’Challa [frick]ing Coogler and Feige
supermanrex
supermanrex - 3/29/2023, 11:16 AM
@BrotherQStark - im still trying to find where they said they was race swapping. ill get back to you when i find it.
clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 3/29/2023, 11:17 AM
@BrotherQStark - Maybe just wait until they've announced whether they'll be recasting existing characters or introducing new characters before you commence with the wailing and gnashing of teeth?
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