Chris Carter Is ‘Anxiously Awaiting’ Ryan Coogler’s ‘X-Files’
Chris Carter is awaiting Ryan Coogler's new version of The X-Files, which is currently in development as a Hulu pilot. Carter has high hopes for the project, despite not knowing much about it, and is choosing not to read the script so he can experience it like everyone else. He is stepping aside for now to allow Coogler's project to move forward without any potential competition from his own work on the series.
- ▪Chris Carter is releasing a director's cut of the second X-Files film, titled The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn, on Hulu and Disney+.
- ▪Ryan Coogler's Hulu pilot for a new version of The X-Files is currently in development, but has not yet been picked up to series.
- ▪Carter is listed as an executive producer on Coogler's project, but has chosen not to be involved in its development.
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The X-Files is having a well-deserved renaissance lately, between series creator Chris Carter’s upcoming director’s cut of the second feature film, retitled The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn and Ryan Coogler’s Hulu pilot for a new version of the show. (The new Lego set is also highly covetable.) With Vrach Frankenshteyn coming to Hulu and Disney+ August 14, Carter is making the interview rounds, and of course he weighed in on Coogler’s fresh take. It hasn’t yet been picked up to series, but Carter still has high hopes—even if, as he admits, he doesn’t know much about it despite being listed in its credits. “I’m anxiously awaiting his version,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “My name is on it as executive producer, but I have done exactly nothing.
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