US director Ryan Coogler, whose last feature film Sinners On Wednesday, April 16 at the cinema, it was launched in its next project: a restart of the cult series X-Files.
“It has been a long time since I am excited about this project, and I am ecstatic to be able to return to him,” he said in an interview with El Podcast Last podcast on the left transmitted by variety.
The filmmaker ensures that the development of this series constitutes his new “immediate project”: “If we do our work, some of these episodes will be really scary,” he continued. “We will try to do something really great, something for the true fans ofX-Files And maybe create others. “
Gillian Anderson back?
Transmitted between 1993 and 2002, X-Files He organized Mulder and Scully, two FBI agents responsible for investigating paranormal businesses. The fantastic series was the theme of two additional seasons in 2016 and 2019 for which David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, the main actors, had found their papers.
Ryan Coogler also claims to have spoken with “the great Gillian Anderson” and suggests that he could be there: “She is great, we cross his fingers.”
The rumor of a restart piloted by Ryan Coogler, who has multiplied boxes in the box office in recent years (Creed: Balboa Rocoso heritageThe two components of Black Panther), has been circulating since last year. Chris Carter, creator of the original series, had assured in another podcast that the young filmmaker wanted to launch a restart with a more diverse casting.
“A brilliant director”
Gillian Anderson also mentioned this possibility at the beginning of April at the set of Today’s showAs the deadline reports:
“Ryan Coogler is a brilliant director,” he said, “and I can’t imagine better ingredients for a restart.
“Whether I participate or not, it’s another story. I don’t say no. It seems really great and I think if I did, it would probably become wonderfully. And maybe it appears for something.”
Source: BFM TV
